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William Hazel Writes
WILLIAM HAZEL
Nov 32 min read
Worry Stone
I take my thumb and press it. Nestle it. Push it into the heart of the stone. Into the smooth place where it naturally rests. The...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Oct 196 min read
The Irishman
A Ghost Story. A True Story. The mills were built of the local blue granite. The stones could sweat a moody indigo in the right kind of...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Oct 122 min read
The Cat Lady
A Ghost Story. A True Story. She whispered to the cat in her Cat Lady voice. The cat that wasn’t there. But it was. I thought it in her...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Oct 55 min read
The Lantern
A ghost story. A true story. The kerosene lantern arced in broad swing. By itself. The speed made me think I must have bumped the...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Sep 152 min read
The Month You Can't See
Some months you can see coming. A mountain on the horizon. The road straight. All the green at the bottom. The red in the middle blended...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Jul 205 min read
The Button
I once had a little black button and I liked it. Liked it very much. When consciousness rekindled in the ICU, my first impressions were...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Jul 62 min read
Dog Days Belly High
The through of the threshold brought no cold. The unseen comfort curtain hanging between inside and outside gone. Stepping through the...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
May 252 min read
Three Days in May
It started in a bar. In my mind that’s where it started. It could have begun at work. We were supposed to wear red, white, and blue. I...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Mar 242 min read
March Sanity
I was pummeled by the flu and bought a new pair of shoes. And M accepted the virus as her own and bought a new pair of pants. And one...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Jan 203 min read
Checking the Time
The barista’s bonzer black hair matches her Smiths tee. Morrissey’s coif negative white in a reverse printed album still. The band rests...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Nov 22, 20233 min read
In the Middle
The fence shadows crept like ghosts back to graves and then it was the middle of the night. And then it was the middle of the month. I...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Sep 16, 20233 min read
The Secret Weeks
September offers no immediacy. I am thankful for this truth. This year brings three clear weeks between the end and perceived end of...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Aug 19, 20233 min read
On the Far Side of Van Gogh
My body was covered in colors dull bright, a French countryside cottage built on my chest. And my love looked so lovely in an almond...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Jun 1, 20232 min read
Summer Intention
The fog fell heavy, ghosting expectations for anything resembling sun or summer. The season’s first hours might have invited fresh...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Apr 15, 20233 min read
When the Tumor Took My Friend
When the tumor took my friend, I sat in silence for a long while before I cried. I had known her almost nine years, and she was my very...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Feb 25, 20232 min read
Raising New Fences
We raised new fences and the backyard smells of fresh milled pine. We being an expression of the gathering of craftsmen and apprentices...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Dec 14, 20225 min read
Driving in Hampton Roads
Life and Death on Interstate 64 Fifty-six hundred pounds of Escalade hard laid its side. A brilliant red of rescue lights reflects...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Oct 27, 20225 min read
Running With The Wicked
A costumed race unmasked It's one of those crazy costume races held near Halloween. I'm dressed as a vintage pilot, sans leather jacket,...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Oct 17, 20225 min read
Reflecting on Something in the Water - The best thing that ever happened to Virginia Beach
My blood boiled cold when I read the emails. I don’t remember a specific time when nor a place where I first heard the Virginia Beach...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
May 11, 20224 min read
Strolling the Old Beach Farmers Marker - A No Mask Outing to Another Dimension
No masks. That's the revelation today. And it feels weird. It feels amazing, but weird. I thought I'd have a crest the top roller coaster...
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