with ominous calm, smoothed

"With Ominous Calm, Smoothed," December 1, 2022 (#335)

title from The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)

Shameless (2011-2021)

Less by Andrew Sean Greer (2017)

With Ominous Calm, Smoothed

Take it from over there, hold the camera higher; no, higher;

if you remember it like this, the... the formula is completely

the proprietor while a bellboy waits, holding the elevator

out of here before that nutjob comes back. You're a very rude

beard, like someone who has forgotten they are wearing a mask

and by being on your own you mean sleeping on my couch at the

Musée d’Orsay? Oh right, you were sick. Well. There was a room

standing between us and the anarchy of mob rule. Hmm. Still a

glaring omission of Jesus and a hymnal so unorthodox that it was

a solid whose atoms or molecules or ions are arranged in what

is a comedy. Not just the first part. The whole thing. You are

some charity housing, but they all have a wait list. I know.

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