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2 weeks ago | 
atholdailynews.com | Paul Franz |Domenic Poli
Firefighters pick at a burning eave at a house fire at 41 Rogers Ave. in Orange on Sunday afternoon. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ Firefighters pick at a burning eve at a house fire at 41 Rogers Ave. in Orange on Sunday afternoon.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
hobartpulp.com | Paul Franz
Born from snow, the stream fell down the mountain.
It crashed up above from ledge to ledge
then slid across black rock that lent it color.
It gathered in a rippling pool. Where it went then we couldn't say. It burned
its way into the earth somewhere
below. It came up rosy
in our hands and fell out clear.
Later I put my hand
where your collarbone splits apart.
I said, this, this. Call it what it is.
We drank black water from the mountain stream.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
saturdayeveningpost.com | Paul Franz
CONTENT WARNING: Contains descriptions of domestic violence and suicide. Ms. Marie comes to visit me from time to time, but sometimes it’s a long time between visits. Whenever Ms. Marie is going to be gone for a really long time, she tells me not to worry because she won’t forget about me and she’ll be back. So when I know I won’t see her for a while, I don’t worry, I just wait for Ms. Marie. As long as it takes.
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May 14, 2024 | 
hobartpulp.com | Paul Franz
Ask any one of us. So many dark days we had spent under the trees, never wandering, never lost, yet lacking everything except that one direction that made our going possible. Ask anyone. Some nights I’m sure I touched it, our destination. (Try it on the tongue: the place that has been destined.) I’d wake to screaming—not my own, but rather like a polyethylene bag being zipped up, the kind I used to use, in my old life, when our EMT team’s efforts at revival had finally failed. Was I the one inside?
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
recorder.com | Paul Franz
Area fire departments respond to small fire at 41 Coolidge Ave. in Turners Falls on Friday. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ Area fire departments respond to small fire at 41 Coolidge Ave. in Turners Falls on Friday.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
recorder.com | Paul Franz
Ralph C. Mahar Regional School student Joel Wilkey, center, stands with Orange Fire Chief James Young and his grandfather Richard Wilkey, whom he awakened the night a fire broke out at their Orange home. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ Ralph C.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
recorder.com | Paul Franz
E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar MONROE — Firefighters from North Adams to Greenfield and numerous towns in between helped quell a stubborn three-alarm fire at 117 Readsboro Road on Wednesday morning.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
recorder.com | Domenic Poli |Paul Franz
ORANGE — Four people were displaced Wednesday morning when a fire damaged a single-family house at 86 Mechanic St.The Salvation Army Athol Corps is reportedly assisting Donna and Kevin Sweeney and their sons, Sean and Nicholas, following the blaze that was called in at 9:52 a.m. after starting in a second-floor bedroom. Orange Fire Chief James Young said Wednesday afternoon that there was not a determined cause of the fire yet, though he said it was accidental in nature.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Paul Franz |Maurice Isserman |Michael Eby |Mychal Denzel Smith
Books & the Arts / The Japanese novelist’s dark-hearted comedies are at once unhinged and brilliant. Ad PolicyWhere to begin the story? It’s tempting to start at the end—on the morning of Osamu Dazai’s 39th birthday, June 19, 1948, when his corpse was dredged from an irrigation canal outside Tokyo. Entangled with him was the body of Tomie Yamazaki, the war widow for whom he had abandoned his wife and children the year before.
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Sep 2, 2023 | 
washingreview.com | Chris McCaffery |Paul Franz |Micah Mattix
Holla, ye pampered Jades of Asia:What, can ye read but twenty words a day,And have the WRB at your heeles,And such a Coachman as its editors? (working backwards from the bottom):College Republicans…Lionel Trilling…Mating…pizza…bugs…Louise Glück…Ulysses…North Korea…fungi…For the Cleveland Review of Books, A.V. Marraccini meditates on Americana. [Always near the heart of the WRB. —Chris] Ansel Adams, Lana Del Rey, Walt Whitman, things of that nature [Two-thirds of this list is California.
