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The night air was not biting at Raymond Cain’s neck as he stared at the abandoned fair from his perch on the hill. It was washing over it in gentle gusts of wind, warming it and rustling his brown hair. July, he thought as he took a drag from his shrinking cigarette, really was the best month for nighttime escapades. He put the glowing tip of his last Newport near his watch, and whispered the time to himself. “Eleven forty-eight.” His voice sounded strange. He had been standing on the hill fo...

Writing midnight epiphanies is my passion.

When the clock on the wall struck twelve-o’-clock, just before Mrs. Hutchins took lunch, there were twenty-one people in the room. Mrs. Hutchins, of course, whose blue eyes still sparkled with a vigor and youth most women sixty years younger than her desperately sought after, and twenty mannequins, ten male and ten female, whose eyes were covered with white paint, stuck in unmoving stares. Each of these wore a different wig, handmade by Mrs. Hutchins herself.1 The former of these sat before a...

The term ‘Wanderlust’ does not accurately describe people like me, my father, and the hundreds of other people in the nation who are not truly happy unless they are on vacation, thousands of miles from home. ‘Wanderlove’ is a much more accurate description. Lust, in my opinion, is just a desire that is easily fulfilled and can be stowed away in the back of the human mind when it is inconvenient. Love, however, is an undying need that often dominates all other thoughts and feelings, and cannot...

The term ‘Wanderlust’ does not accurately describe people like me, my father, and the hundreds of other people in the nation who are not truly happy unless they are on vacation, thousands of miles from home. ‘Wanderlove’ is a much more accurate description. Lust, in my opinion, is just a desire that is easily fulfilled and can be stowed away in the back of the human mind when it is inconvenient. Love, however, is an undying need that often dominates all other thoughts and feelings, and cannot...