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		<title>The New Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This site has come about as a way of exploring more professional means of showcasing my work as I begin to get more serious about writing professionally. I&#8217;ve only just begun setting up the site, so check back soon for stories and updates.]]></description>
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		<title>Hunger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony woke up on a cool early-Autumn morning in a wooded area in one of the city’s larger parks. He sat up on the park bench, set his jacket next to him, and breathed in the refreshing September air. The nights were getting cooler, but the afternoons weren’t so oppressively hot anymore, and Tony preferred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When his father, Donald, called to say that his mother and brother had been in an accident, Simon went to the kitchen and threw together a quick sandwich. His father had sounded calm on the phone and even said the two hadn’t been badly hurt. He couldn’t help but wonder what good his presence would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under Attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really prefer to avoid being around people if it’s at all possible. I’ve been working a second-shift job for the last three years, so I’ve found that it gets easier to avoid people all of the time. “Open Late” drive-thrus are really great, even better than twenty-four hour department stores. When Meijer’s first came [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscorning.net/under-attack/</link>
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		<title>Oblivion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The best sort of hitchhiker, I’ve found, is the guy who asks for rides at the truck stop. They’re a little smarter than the ones who get out on the road and walk for a while, first. I’ve heard some folks complain when they see someone standing around with a sign like that, saying if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscorning.net/oblivion/</link>
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		<title>The Bike Trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I should tell you about the trip I took on my motorcycle a few summers back. You know I don’t like to work too much if I don’t have to, and at the time, I’d set enough money aside from helping assemble those modular homes for about a year. I stuck with the guy until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscorning.net/the-bike-trip/</link>
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		<title>The Disappearing Fratboy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know if I ever told you, but the first job I got out of college was because of the fraternity I’d been in. That’s been about thirty years ago. I studied econ and finance with the goal of becoming a bank manager. I put together a resume after graduation and submitted to various [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscorning.net/the-disappearing-fratboy/</link>
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		<title>The Golden Cucumber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did I tell you about the time that I had to go to Tibet? It all started when I decided that I wanted to try out a structured approach to meditation. I grew up Catholic but had always been intrigued by Buddhism, particularly when I realized at the age of around sixteen or seventeen that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscorning.net/the-golden-cucumber/</link>
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		<title>The Coin Collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have I told you about when I had the world’s most valuable coin collection? I only had it for a few months, but it was nice to have. It all started when I got my first half-dollar from my barber. It was the first time that I was old enough to go to get my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscorning.net/the-coin-collection/</link>
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		<title>Giving Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Hey, Mary, come over here&#8230;you gotta meet this guy,” Thom called across the crowded den. Mary had come to this house with Thom and his girlfriend Aileen weeks ago, and every night seemed to be a party. She met the couple on her way from a little farm town a few hours south of Chicago [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chriscorning.net/giving-up/</link>
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