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Matthew Plummer Cobb
Feb 2, 2017

The Latest Model: A Sonnet

The moment that I signed the dotted line,
I felt a love so unconventional.
Her love for me could not be by design,
According to her software manual.

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Matthew Plummer Cobb
Jan 26, 2017

Garage Sale — Everything Must Go

I can’t resist a good garage sale. 
Or a bad one.

Garage sales, 
 estate sales, 
 open houses.

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Matthew Plummer Cobb
Oct 27, 2016

The Minotaur on Main Street

See this man sleeping in a pose like a corpse in a coffin? This is Lazarus Tax. (No relation to the Biblical Lazarus. Unlike that Lazarus, this one seems unlikely to come back to life.)

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Matthew Plummer Cobb
Sep 30, 2016

The Anachronist’s Loop

She can’t remember much. Why she’s there on the beach, where she was going, where she came from. The answers to those questions were lost to the rising sun, her mind clearing like clouds separating over the open waters of the sea.

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Matthew Plummer Cobb
Aug 8, 2016

Straight Edge

I’m standing there with the razor, wondering if I could do it. Wondering why I would do it. What would be the reason?

It’s a safety razor, though, and I’m already halfway through shaving.

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Matthew Plummer Cobb
Aug 7, 2016

The Connoisseur of Sunsets

He worked hospice for years before moving on. He always wondered if the end of one thing means the beginning of another. Is every entrance an exit and every exit an entrance?

Now, he looks out across the Mediterranean as the last glow of sun disappears…

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Matthew Plummer Cobb
Aug 6, 2016

Brewer’s Gold

Frank Brewer had a saying that although the universe consists of the four elements of earth, wind, fire, and water, the primary element is beer.

Coincidentally, Frank Brewer himself was mostly made up of beer. Which made sense considering that his surname and his profession…

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Matthew Plummer Cobb
Aug 5, 2016

A Monster

A monster showed up in my back yard last night. I was locking the glass door to the porch when I spotted him. He looked straight at me and our eyes locked until I couldn’t stand it any more. I flipped off the light to get a better look but my reflection was gone.

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Matthew Plummer Cobb
Aug 4, 2016

A Tempting Offer

“All of this could be yours,” says the Investor, whose left hand on rests on my shoulder in a kind of avuncular way.

We’re looking down on the courtyard from the third floor. The slight pressure the Investor’s hand exerts on my shoulder makes me feel just a teeny bit like…

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Matthew Plummer Cobb
Aug 3, 2016

Game Set Match

It was the most anticipated tennis match in the history of tennis. And robotics.

Project Yellow Ball had begun seven years earlier after the most recent leap forward in robotics and artificial intelligence. When developers were looking for a way to test the new iterations of…

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