Tom Edelson's Fiction and Poetry

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Dispatches from the right side of my brain.

• Economic Downturn Blues: good advice for bad times.  I wrote this poem some time between 1999 and 2002.


• Christmas Among the Beasts: this very short story, a satirical example of the hard-boiled private eye genre, was written early in 2006.  It was inspired by the tradiition of television crime shows having special "Christmas episodes."  New 2010-06-04: this story is now also available in PDF format.


• Don't Know Much About Deuteronomy: I wrote this poem in June of 2006, just after "retiring" from my last real job.


• Signs and Portents: this poem, written early in 2009, was my way of telling myself that it was time to give up on a lost cause and move on.


• On Looking: this poem was drafted way back when I was a graduate student, then revised in 2009 and 2010.  It is about observing things "from the outside."


• Do Not Use Ladder: this poem was "co-written" by my friend Caroline Eastman (principal author) and me.  My part of the writing was done in May 2010.  It is a set of instructions from a ladder manufacturer, admonishing the purchaser against several ill-considered ways in which one might otherwise use their product.

This page created: 2009-09-27

This page last modified: 2010-06-04

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