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Philip Brooks

Philip Brooks

Philip Brooks lives in the wilds of Ohio with his wife, son, schnoodle, and four tortoises. His work has appeared in the Quarterly, Willow Springs, The Beloit Poetry Journal, and Mudlark.

Drama

Summer 1998

Physical History

By Philip Brooks

(Dark stage, silence. A stumble and fall is heard. Lights up, revealing a man, the SUBJECT, struggling to his feet and moving purposefully to a seemingly designated spot upstage left. […]