Author Archives for Dallas Cobb

Out East

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August 15, 2017 1:29 am

I sit on a balcony in California as the golden sun descends below the hillcrest, on the other side the... Read Story


Thanksgiving

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August 15, 2017 12:13 am

We sat there at the end of our dingy dorm hallway, not saying anything. He stared straight ahead, cross-legged, with... Read Story


Summer of ’92

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August 15, 2017 12:06 am

An inflated, leather bag rattled off the wood beam with each blow, spraying the assembled onlookers with a rooster tail... Read Story


Dear Diary

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August 15, 2017 12:02 am

Dear Diary, Every day here The Hamptons, something strange happens. The good kind of strange – the kind that makes... Read Story


Damage-Brood

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August 15, 2017 12:00 am

I Let the water come. It will not pass the barriers we have erected. As mandated by the state on... Read Story


Immigrant

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August 14, 2017 11:59 pm

Long Island curves into the Atlantic and seems as though it has broken off from the rest of New York.... Read Story


Sole Survivor

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August 14, 2017 11:58 pm

Sole Survivor Summer heat. Bare feet. The two were synonymous to me as a young boy spending many glorious summers... Read Story


Excursion

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August 14, 2017 11:56 pm

A number of things went wrong early today. However I did not budge and let them wash over me, processed... Read Story


Home Again

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August 14, 2017 11:52 pm

I told myself the day had finally come. I furiously cleaned out my room and packed up the car to... Read Story


My Happy Ending

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August 14, 2017 11:52 pm

We’re in Montauk again, to celebrate. It’s June, so it’s my wife’s birthday and Father’s Day. We leave the Grice... Read Story


Happy Place

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August 14, 2017 11:45 pm

It all started when I was young. I was introduced to the lifestyle of the well known Hamptons that everyone... Read Story


631

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August 14, 2017 11:39 pm

Every year the social studies department in my school has a mandatory project that we work on over the course... Read Story


Water

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August 14, 2017 11:31 pm

The fountains were pristine and reminded Paul of Switzerland. He had been there to purchase art and remembered most of... Read Story


Cleo

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August 14, 2017 11:28 pm

He looked like Prince, only buff, with glistening dark skin the texture of velvet. A slender blade of a man... Read Story


Power Outage

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August 14, 2017 11:08 pm

Sunday The power went off at exactly nine a.m. Twelve hours after I had walked around my house in a... Read Story


The Zombie Run

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August 14, 2017 10:53 pm

Warning: The following story has been rated “S” for Savage due to Intense Sarcasm and Brutal Honesty. Viewer discretion advised.... Read Story


Elegy for Main Beach

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August 14, 2017 10:46 pm

Makeshift floats in the festive parade, the red wagons and strollers laden with blankets, coolers, picnic baskets and the occasional... Read Story


The Zombie Run

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August 14, 2017 10:45 pm

Warning: The following story has been rated “S” for Savage due to Intense Sarcasm and Brutal Honesty. Viewer discretion advised.... Read Story


Small

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August 14, 2017 10:32 pm

“You’re too small!” I heard that sentence throughout my childhood; too small for roller coasters, too small to play basketball,... Read Story


Go Fly a Kite

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August 14, 2017 10:31 pm

The year was 1976 — or thereabouts. Dan’s Kite Fly was in its infancy, or at most its toddler years,... Read Story


Making Life Fun

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August 14, 2017 10:19 pm

My father knew how to make life fun. He discovered East Hampton when I was about five. By “discovered,” I... Read Story


Places That Don’t Exist

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August 14, 2017 9:26 pm

When Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed away, global publications eulogized the Nobel Prize winning Colombian author. They illustrated his life through... Read Story


Beach Art

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August 14, 2017 9:10 pm

I bought a painting recently in Philadelphia. It’s a beachy picture of a woman and her dog. They are walking... Read Story


Down Stream

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August 14, 2017 8:58 pm

I’ve slipped up. I’m scared. I’m lost. Confused and fearful. I can see how I got here.. But can’t seem... Read Story


First Love

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August 14, 2017 8:07 pm

We were three small girls, dressed in our Danskin finest, eagerly packed into the back seat of our parents’ shiny... Read Story


On Mileage

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August 14, 2017 6:56 pm

I was born in the water. My mother called it an effortless passage of life, relatively quick and uncomplicated, and... Read Story


The Piano Lesson

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August 14, 2017 6:09 pm

Bright dappled sunlight flooded the music room. White colonial shutters on open windows framed an unobstructed waterfront view overlooking the... Read Story


Cupid at the Privet Hedge

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August 14, 2017 1:28 pm

Terry Schein 49 Highland Road Southampton, NY 11968 (631) 283-7322 Tmoonschein@aol.com Cupid at the Privet Hedge by Terry Staverman “Where’s... Read Story


An American Son

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August 14, 2017 12:20 pm

Prologue: Reality Sun’s up and I’m still lost. How do you write nonfiction when you don’t know what’s real anymore?... Read Story


The Sea Grave

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August 14, 2017 9:50 am

To this day, nearly three decades later, the whole thing still kind of bothers me. It shouldn’t have felt like... Read Story


21st Century Folklore

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August 14, 2017 2:15 am

The Independent called it “The Montauk Monster.” Three kids found it early one morning while surfing and emailed a picture... Read Story


Cracks in the Glass

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August 14, 2017 1:26 am

Over the years, my brother-in-law Ed has amassed his own sculpture garden which populates his extensive back yard on Hither... Read Story


The Red Moon

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August 13, 2017 11:40 pm

“We’re going to the beach tonight. Let’s go now!” I told my father. He had promised my brother and I... Read Story


Sound Avenue

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August 13, 2017 9:38 pm

There were North Fork girls, and there were Hamptons girls. I’ve always been a North Fork girl. Perhaps I just... Read Story


The East End Rocks

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August 13, 2017 9:11 pm

After nearly 40 summers in Mattituck, my parents have finally paved the driveway. Until now, we’d always parked on nothing... Read Story


Work

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August 13, 2017 8:02 pm

I got a job out east so I could live at our beach house in Hampton Bays. An audiovisual contractor... Read Story


Amagansett

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August 13, 2017 6:32 pm

I grew up in a small beach town in Southern California, where I spent summer days at the tide pools,... Read Story


Two Worlds

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August 13, 2017 6:26 pm

Just the mention of “New York City” caused my ten-year-old brother Jack’s entire body to stiffen up. Ever since he... Read Story


Gold

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August 13, 2017 5:04 pm

GOLD By, Theodore Aiello Age 18 Theo: I want to do something today Marie. Like, to tell people I did... Read Story


Love Thy Neighbors

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August 13, 2017 3:46 pm

It’s been twenty years. Where has the time gone? We thankfully found a beautiful home in the country and experienced... Read Story


Shorebirds

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August 13, 2017 2:57 pm

Tommy and I sailed eastward from Iverson’s Dock in Bellport, though after a late departure had only reached the very... Read Story