Shalom Auslander's Fetal Position

Shalom Auslander's Fetal Position

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Shalom Auslander's Fetal Position
Shalom Auslander's Fetal Position
It's Hell, Charlie Brown
It's Hell, Charlie Brown

It's Hell, Charlie Brown

Chapter 1

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Kafka (in The Trial) did not want to write “a fairly witty fantasy"… he wanted to go down into the dark depths of a joke. – Milan Kundera

Chapter 1.

 Good grief.

That was the very last thought that crossed Charlie Brown's mind as the streaking baseball slammed into his throat, two inches above the suprasternal notch, flipping him upside down into the air…

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