Tag: Dining

• Mandarin and Bergamot

  19 Nov 2024

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  Sunlight splashes through the windows The bottles of pink grapefruit and mandarin bergamot soda Throw shadows across the white tablecloth The ice cubes float there like glaciers Flares of white and ocean blue We’re having lunch on the 11th floor in Oslo Fancy menu, fancy place Quiet, not many other…

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  + Love Stories, Poetry, Political, Society, The Nerves

  + Dining, Love, New World, Oslo, Soda, Wife

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• The Celestial Salad Bar (Two)

  19 May 2023

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  Albom Riff handed over the cash for the room at the Robin Hood and took his key. It was a real key, a brass key, attached to a yellow piece of plastic shaped like a diamond and with the room number 9 etched into it. “Thanks,” he said to the…

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  + Black Comedy, Dark Humor, Fiction, Mystery, Oddball, Strange

  + Dining, Fiction, Icebergs, New Mexico, Salad, Salad Bar, Short Story

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• The Lobster Guy (Seven)

  9 Dec 2022

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  Truman took in a shocked breath and sat back in the booth. “You just blew my mind, my eerie lobster friend. There I was this whole time, rotting away in Neptune, Nebraska, breaking chicken necks and punching a register at some shitty grocery store. There I was, pining over a…

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  + Black Comedy, Dark Humor, Episodes, Fiction, Serial Fiction, Unsettling Drama

  + Dining, Fiction, Lincoln, Lobster, Nebraska, Red Lobster, Short Fiction

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