Stephen Kleege’s Substack
These works in progress are loosely based on my career in music and journalism, with real life news and personalities providing a backdrop for fiction.
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Hortense and the Moose - 12 (opens the original)
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12 - Hortense Is Still Past Tense“It’s a tautology,” Marv said, literally scratching his head. (This was Marv making a show of his perplexity, so there’s a rationale for specifying that his head scratching wasn’t just figurative.) “Why, how could it be otherwise?” Marv said, hitching up his corduroys and leaning over my shoulder to squint at the lede sentence. “Maybe say they lost money on loans and not on `loan losses.’”Marv put a hand on my shoulder. I hadn’t written the headline, and he knew
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