How do you react when you're cornered? Talk your way out, prepare for battle or insist you're just fine and dandy? Mike Baldwin's "Cornered" characters reflect the full spectrum of these reactions - all the while doing their very best to be taken seriously. From dark to light to blindingly brilliant, the results delight, amuse or even confuse - but it's well worth the risk. No one's ever lost an eye reading "Cornered" (aside from one reader who got WAAAY too close - you know who you are). In the end it's discovering the inconvenient truth of being "Cornered" that sets you free.
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win said, 3 months ago
But how does that make you feel?
win said, 3 months ago
@440RoadRunner
Here, take two of these tablets and some deep breaths…you need to calm down.
pksampso said, 3 months ago
So the definition of sanity is “less crazy than you.” Works for me!
emptc12 said, 3 months ago
Wrong! It doesn’t work that way! Everybody I know who’s a chronic complainer does so to make themselves feel better. It’s at the expense of the person listening, as if a direct transfer of well-being occurs. If you’ve seen the movie “Life Force,” you get the idea.
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I worked across from a person for many years who did this. He would appear down as a bloodhound and would snag people as they went by. Your biggest mistake was to say, “How you feelin’, Marty.” He would tell you in detail, endless depressing detail.
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I would see chipper, virile men reduced to whimpering shells of their former selves within 10 minutes, while Marty would visibly inflate. They would slink away, he would resume work, whistling.
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It was bizarre. He’s had one foot in the grave for 30 years, and while most people around him have passed, he remains.
algurka said, 3 months ago
And I’m sure the patient could use the money she’d earn posing as a shrink, too.