R. Muir

• Sep-2004
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Sebastian Lazarus is dead. That should be the end of it. And yet he can reflect upon his past and his remains, alternately exhuming memories of a journey made across Africa and chronicling his corpse's dust-to-dust decay. A travelogue of the soul, a ...

• Dec-2008
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History is as much comprised of events that did not happen as it is of those that did. It is a fact, for instance, that Flight 405 from Istanbul to New York / New York to San Francisco, took off, landed / took off, landed without a hitch. It is also ...

• Feb-2009
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To say that Nana was bred for pleasure is not exactly accurate. A paramour she, indeed, became, but hers was an altruistic genesis (in a prototypical sense), a tool for tissue regeneration, a renewable stem cell resource for graft-quality skin. But, ...

• Mar-2009
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Simon says... virtually nothing. Mute for two years, he is a wanderer, a mystic, a clairvoyant who crosses paths with Brandy, a voluptuous belly dancer, in the Arizona desert. Theirs appears to be a chance encounter, until we get a glimpse at their m...

• Jul-2010
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In prehistoric Africa, a dark-skinned woman gives birth to a fair-skinned child. Because this child resembles neither parent, nor anyone from the tribe, nor anyone from the tribe's collective ancestors, it is reasoned he has come from the distant fut...

• Jul-2011
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LONESOME SOUL SOUGHT Looking for a writer / lover who knows what he wants and can describe his heart’s ideal. For the right man, I could be a dream come true. PO BOX 666, BERKELEY, CA 94709-0836...

• Jun-2013
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What could a committed bachelor from San Francisco and a nubile maiden from Jakarta possibly have in common when he moreover is a ‘devout’ Atheist and she is a ‘fickle’ Muslim, when he is frugal to a fault and she spends rupiah like royalty, ...