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Ideas for Happy Stories

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: June 5, 2011
A mail man and a dog learn to set aside their differences, and together they raise $10,000 for charity. When a suicidal, divorced mathematician thinks life can’t get any worse, he stumbles upon a time machine, goes back in time, and watches his parents fall in love. Then he takes some pictures of dinosaurs. Then [...]
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Unpublished, hard-to-find short stories by J.D. Salinger

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: November 6, 2009
Back in high school, one of my English teachers gave us “Teddy” by J.D. Salinger to read and then talk about in class, and at the end of the term he put Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” on the final exam. (And on a high school English lit final that’s just cruel, considering how [...]
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