217 0 0
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Those in the house don’t notice the sweaty woman on their lawn any more than they notice the Ruger LCP pistol she holds limply in her right hand.
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151 4 1
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His body echoed in the mirror/
cracked into distant images
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She said she wanted to find a man who could appreciate a woman who gave great head.
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I was dating my yoga class. It was going all right. Which is to say, the sex was pretty fantastic but otherwise I was beginning to lose interest. I'm thinking of one Saturday afternoon in the summer. We ended up browsing for Father's Day gifts at Crate & Barrel in …
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158 1 1
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Every day, I write myself further away
From the East
Where we began
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My novel-in-stories, NAN, is now available as an ebook for $6.99. Thanks to everyone who read the first 7 published stories here on Fictionaut.
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Nancy's brother, Ronnie would wait until church was out and pull the bench up to the piano play and sing show tunes, even humming them loudly if he didn't remember the lyric. Crooning away — as if he had the lead in a Broadway musical. Well, that was part of…
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I remember the days when my brother and I would walk down Tillman Square, careful to avoid the cracks zigzagging along the ground. Well I did. My brother made a point to step on every one.
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You were never at all like Narcissus, trying to remember girls’ names with marble in their eyes. You never adored your own image, looking at yourself in the river, not like I did (looking in the mirror that brings sleep.) I remember you admiring the dre
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158 1 0
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NASCAR's Minivan Series by Pottery Barn is a competition limited to soccer moms with at least 2.3 children who drive minivans over suburban courses featuring mandatory "pit stops" at drive-through franchise restaurants.
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She was having a laugh, but I didn't know what about. We were sitting in a big house that was on the top of a large incline. All these books were scattered around, and the walls and the kitchen, the doors and the quarter round and every other thing, was old and…
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175 4 1
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I was like a bullet shot from a university tower
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140 4 3
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Your father's remembrance and memorial would be inappropriate for me to attend. never mind the truth the searing…
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290 5 2
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The young girl has given up, and lies sprawled out
upon the yellow cover on the bed, with her blue sarong
wrapped loosely around her body. One arm lay
back up above her head, where it was thrown
during the exertion of birth. Her yellow halo
surr
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I feel about the universe/
as Abrahamics are supposed/
to feel about their Yahweh, /their God,
and their Allah:/ I am in fear,
I am in awe, /I am in love.
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n truth, they are not red/
but chestnut./
But “Chestnut Wasp” lacks menace
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355 4 4
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Blueberries are like testicles: you have to hold them gently, from underneath.
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482 2 1
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In a release of pleasure
Her rain fell to the ground
Mingling with the
Essence of the Earth
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“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”
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[I LOVE IT WHEN A "PLAN B" COMES TOGETHER!]
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I quote at length, or as much length as I am permitted by my ability to control my involuntary aesthetic gag reflex:
He slipped down the bed, between her thighs. (. . .) Surely he doesn’t want to kiss me there. He did. And he did more than kis
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On my way to the creative writing class the next week, I decided that, despite the canonical immortalization of ‘Virginia’ the nineteen-year-old nymph, I didn’t like his story. What was I going to say? Did he expect me to fuck him now? My hands grew sweat
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An old man in overalls with rags on his head known locally as Bo Peep made his way up from the black side of town to the white. After listening for a few moments, he shook his head in disgust. “Boy, you can’t play them blues.”
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101 5 2
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His audio archive of Bay Area musicians extends along two walls, twenty-five by fifteen feet, in drawers of C.D.s hundreds deep. Where will it go, I asked, permanently.
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143 4 2
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What is writing? You appear in your photo to be more handsome than your first brother—Question mark? cock, exclamation! prick.
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178 3 1
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I'm very worried that you'll find some reason to leave me so I tend to act overly assertive and dominant due to my insecurities but I hope you understand that this is for your own good and soon you'll know how much I love you
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I knew I needed to visit a beach / made entirely of sharks’ teeth
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“I mean it, Hanna. I don't want you to.” But his leg felt carved away where her head had lain. One stupid thing jostling another for attention. He was afraid that if she touched him again, he'd have her on the ground.
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