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- Gone Postal
- Vermin
- Table Tipping - Part 2
- Table Tipping - Part 1
- Dealing with Rejection
- The Great Storm - Part 2.
- The Great Storm
- Meet Lou Gormon
- Coffee Break
- Early Influences
- Early Pandemic Sensibilities
- Signs of a Concussion
- Joke Writing Tricks - Part 2
- Joke Writing Tricks
- Peaks and Valleys
- Nasty Burn!
- Sniper - Part 2
- Sniper - Part 1
- Narrow Escapes
- Packing Test - Part 2
- Packing Test
- Middle School Tale - Part 2
- Middle School Tale - Part 1
- Straddling that Fence - Part 2
- Straddling that Fence
- Supermarket Tales
- The End
- Wrap Up
- Rock Climbing
- Yet More Violence
- My Dad in WWII - Part 3
- My Dad in WWII - Part 2
- My Dad in WWII - Part 1
- Our Italian Grandma - Part 2
- Our Italian Grandma
- Hair Raising Tales
- The Ginger Experience
- Best Jump Ever!
- Bad Parenting 101
- Gravity
- Go Fly a Kite - Part 2
- Go Fly a Kite
- Strange Trip - Part 8
- Strange Trip - Part 7
- Strange Trip - Part 6
- Strange Trip - Part 5
- Strange Trip - Part 4
- Strange Trip - Part 3
- Strange Trip - Part 2
- Strange Trip - Part 1
- The Chasm - Part 5
- The Chasm - Part 4
- The Chasm - Part 3
- The Chasm - Part 2
- The Chasm
- Turning Point
- Tug, Tug, Tug
- Early Morning Serenade
- Out for a Spin
- Sketchbook - Part 2
- Sketchbook
- Tracking the Subconscious - Part 2
- Tricking the Subconscious - Part 1
- Sophomoric Humor
- Practically Funny
- Crazy Neighbors
- Violence - Part 2
- More Violence - Part 2
- More Violence
- Smack!
- Art School - Part 3
- Art School - Part 2
- Art School - Part 1
- Unhappy Landings - Part 3
- Unhappy Landings - Part 2
- Unhappy Landings - Part 1
- Head Case - Part 2
- Head Case - Part 1
- Run Away!
- Chaos Ensued
- Bad Decisions
- Treetops, Part 2
- Watch out for that tree!
- High Speed Dive
- Clues and Artifacts
- Gravity always wins out.
- Three Man Star
- Freefall
- Journal from a Single Jump
- I know that sound!
- Sweating Bullets
- One Month Later
- New Arrangement
- Unexpected News
- Well, the reserve works.
- This time it didn't open.
- Inner Ear Complications
- Intro to Freefall
- Whale Sighting
- Another Bad Decision.
- Introductions
- Before and After
- I had two brothers.
- Sudden Storm
- Out for a Spin
- Never buy a used parachute.
- Underwater Mishaps
- You can open your eyes now.
- Parachuting Lessons
- Snap!
- Trial by Fire.
- Hockey in the Seventies
- Chameleon
- Antimatter Ball
- Close Calls
- Supermarket
- Sleepwalker
- Title Page
- Cover
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Author notes
I'm told that every jumper has a certain amount of natural fear. Most of them reach some kind of roadblock somewhere in their training. usually, it's very early on but for me it came much later. I remember this jump as a distinct turning point for controlling my panic.
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