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A jumper, a gardener, a doctor, and a slinger all walk into a bar; they order four liquids of varying viscosity and commiserate for a bit over tiny umbrellas and half-eaten manzanilla olives. Stories are dredged up from the last dregs of the drinks, slurred yet relatively understood, flurries of slightly lucid prose sluiced from the annals of that next to last martini glass. Hanging from numb lips, participles dangle before crashing to the unwiped counter strewn with sentence fragments and forgotten asides. Hello, Author speaking—the real author, one Richard Montoya, not some narrative construct or self-aware, third-wall smashing narrator—here to address you directly, a pleasure you’ll enjoy now and never again in the preceding pages. So enjoy it while it lasts. I was once told that bars provide the tritest setting to a story imaginable. While not all of these stories contain scenes set therein (by some herculean strength I was able to contain myself) each of these stories does contain
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A jumper, a gardener, a doctor, and a slinger all walk into a bar; they order four liquids of varying viscosity and commiserate for a bit over tiny umbrellas and half-eaten manzanilla olives. Stories are dredged up from the last dregs of the drinks, slurred yet relatively understood, flurries of slightly lucid prose sluiced from the annals of that next to last martini glass. Hanging from numb lips, participles dangle before crashing to the unwiped counter strewn with sentence fragments and forgotten asides. Hello, Author speaking—the real author, one Richard Montoya, not some narrative construct or self-aware, third-wall smashing narrator—here to address you directly, a pleasure you’ll enjoy now and never again in the preceding pages. So enjoy it while it lasts. I was once told that bars provide the tritest setting to a story imaginable. While not all of these stories contain scenes set therein (by some herculean strength I was able to contain myself) each of these stories does contain
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