The Benjamin Report

    • Works In Progress 1

      Works In Progress 1

      Instead of a weekly report this Saturday, enjoy these teasers for some of the stuff I’ve been working on. If all goes according to plan, each of these projects will receive their full release on this blog in the coming months. From The Outside Looking In A short story about a retail manager in rural… Continue reading

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    • Little Fiction 1

      Little Fiction 1

      Lakewater Perhaps for dinner. Something with cheese. Wine maybe? Fancy people always have that, I hear. Wine and cheese and laughter with a smirk of irony on the rocks. I bet there’s some around here. Maybe in the cellar. I wondered if it’s secret. They’d do that. I’d do that. I wouldn’t want anybody snooping… Continue reading

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    • A Moment for Peace

      A Moment for Peace

      Somebody Told Me Last year my annual death aligned with the winter season. It struck me right before the end, my little Subaru was out of her head and coughed out her last drops of blood in the cold. She died in Madison, Wisconsin rolled over in the dark chill of a November night. I… Continue reading

    • EPISODE FIVE

      EPISODE FIVE

      Someday it will change, it will all change My reflections on Dig! XX, the re-cut expanded 20th anniversary version of the original cult classic rock n’ roll documentary. The untold secret behind everything we create that binds the understanding of all art together, especially to its makers, is that there is no finished project. Every… Continue reading

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    • EPISODE FOUR

      EPISODE FOUR

      Knockoff Green Casio Watch My recollection of my desperate search for a new, reliable but affordable digital watch and the madness that had come of it. Forever ago, my dad gifted me a Timex analog watch. It was a neat little device that, along with the time of day, also showed the date. The trouble… Continue reading

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