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Lyndsey Resnick's avatar

Unexpectedly true. I believe this.

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Will Boucher's avatar

this is perfect

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Oscar Ruto Chemelil's avatar

I’m honored

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M.P. Fitzgerald's avatar

If you aren't already published somewhere the industry is fucking up. This was a damn fine read.

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Keith Long's avatar

I heard his voice in my head say the whole story. Could picture it easy, well done.

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

Wow... This is another fantastic piece. I. I honestly think Zivah nailed it. The distinct mixing of Japan's love for baseball with my very American mind (sometimes I forget, they love cigarettes, beer, and baseball too, but I was a Sapporo reserve guy myself. Tall can, two, and two packs of cigarettes, Oakland's breakfast of champions.) This story is colored like a Heineken bottle, I cannot elaborate.

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Tamara Lee Standard's avatar

Pure perfection. I literally know the same bar tender.

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Zivah Avraham's avatar

This is how Edward Hopper paintings would look if the subjects in them could speak to us.

You capture that sense of solitude, loneliness, melancholy so well in his thoughts. Brilliant, Oscar.

(And I agree, Asahi is the best).

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