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A Walk Down the Street in Seattle

Aaron Ducat

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Located on the corner of 128th St and Aurora Avenue are a Vietnamese noodle house, a Chick-filโ€™A, a used car lot, and a construction supply company that doubles as a used car lot, the latter presumably ...

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Recurring Dreams

Mike Morgan

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My friend and fellow Hard Crackers editor Chris Alexander is largely responsible for this one. ย Chris is a medical technologist in the emergency room of a busy downtown hospital in Detroit. ย He performs CT scans (what ...

Frozen in the Heart of Texas

Gus Breslauer

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Here in Houston, we are no stranger to natural disaster. Our addiction to the petrochemical industry should qualify us as masochists. I lived through Tropical Storm Allison, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Harvey, and countless flood events in-between. ...

My first reading glasses

James Stephens

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Just after the New Year, I picked up my first pair of reading glasses at the Family Dollar around the block from my house. It wasnโ€™t part of a New Yearโ€™s resolution; in fact, it was ...

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Ho Ho This!

Mike Morgan

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Christmas is here and if you live in America you know this because the bombardment starts on Thanksgiving.ย  The television commercials are a dead giveaway, plus the specially named shopping days, โ€œBlack Fridayโ€ or โ€œCyber Monday.โ€ย  ...

Murphyโ€™s Law โ€“ A Day in the Life

Mike Morgan

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Murphyโ€™s Law was in full effect for me today (Saturday).ย  Murphyโ€™s Law is not quite Sodโ€™s Law, nor is it exactly Finagleโ€™s Law, although they all capture the same sentiment.ย  The tenet of Murphyโ€™s Law is ...

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Hard Crackers Editors on WBAI

Hard Crackers Editors

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On this week’s episode of WBAI radio’s Deadline NYC, our editors John Garvey and Mike Morgan sat down with veteran journalist Tom Robbins for a discussion of their early political development and the Hard Crackers project. ...

They Lost My COVID Test

John Garvey

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Almost two weeks ago, I thought that I might have been exposed to someone with the COVID infection.ย  I waited for a week and then my wife, Laurene, and I went to a nearby testing siteโ€”consisting ...

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Drawing Ourselves into the Picture

Mike Morgan

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My mother Leah frequented the Durban Public Library in South Africa at least once a week.ย  As the youngest child, I was often forced to tag along with her.ย  I enjoyed those sessions.ย  I used to ...

Class on Crack

Ilja Svenouz

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This is a story about crack, and everything that cracks underneath its weight. For the uninitiated, some exposition is warranted. The genre of the gonzo drug abuse romp has had its day, and neither is this ...
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