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The rest of her band are dressed as ANGRY, SLEEK-DOG, AND LUDICROUS. At the computer, I type this message: We're out of leftovers
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unblue, unblueing, unblued
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He cut a hole in the sack
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The Nurse left work at five o’clock, walking down Dekalb Avenue toward Flatbush. He didn’t frequent the bar closest to the hospital, although he guessed other nurses and doctors from Brooklyn Hospital did. But he liked to pretend that he cared about h
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“Eat up, little brother” Jack called out from his end of the table. “The food will make your blood dance. It will be eager to mix with Helen’s.”
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My first abroad journey completed. A picturesque way to end it all, really. I’m into that, I think to myself: making things play like movies or dramas or as beautifully as I can make them.
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"What the fuck are you looking at, Carl?" She snaps, turning her head toward me as the truck edges off the road and into a field of tobacco, into those broad green leaves of ancient sacristy and modern ablution. This is not a blissful kind of field. It is not full…
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Where Charles went too far that day was when he decided to climb out the bedroom window and onto the roof. It was mid-day, and a perfect afternoon with a bright sun and a cool breeze that made the neighborhood's silver maples whisper, rush, and reveal the
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Charles Francis Toffit opened his eyes and saw only sky. Spring died beautifully into his 16th summer as he stretched out on his parent's front lawn, the grass already grown as long, lush, and fluttery as a thousand green eyelashes. Meeting the new era no
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Charles didn't know why, but he determined that he needed evidence of his visit, and the bra was, in some insane way, the best evidence. Not an arousing sight, not as arousing as the initial break in certainly, it was something unique and, the more he tho
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Mr. Stadic seemed fully invested in locking and unlocking the garage door. Six times in a row, he locked, then unlocked the handle, jiggling it to his dissatisfaction in-between before the sixth locking satisfied him with its security. Close up and from b
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The church building was a rustic structure made of rough-cut lumber that over-lapped in the clap-board fashion. The building itself was unpainted, but the boards were a weathered gray that only came from years of exposure to weather. The steeple towered o
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Sacrificial vic bleeds out . . .
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They got out wearing their crisp brown Army jackets and khaki pants; she saw the cross on the lapel of the officer's shirt and just knew. These men brought sad news from faraway places.
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Sometimes, to be sad, you don't need tears.
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It’s Leap Year and my school is observing Sadie Hawkins Day, which means the sixth-graders have a dance where the girls ask the boys to dance and the rest of us get to dress up like hillbillies.
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The walrus head seems impossibly large. She hoists me up so I can rub my fingers across his hard muzzle, play the whiskers like strings on a ukulele.
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Safe does not ride horses at sunsetSnorkel in MolokaiRaft down a swollen river.It does not steal kisses in a darkened theaterTouch the inside of a thigh under a restaurant table.Safe does not declare war.It chooses dinner every night at sixMass every SundayConfession once a…
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He is drilling the door of a safe to access the keys he locked inside.
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I am not a gun but I think I may havepulled a trigger in some kind of real worldway before.You?I am not a plastic water bottlebut I may have bought into the snobby notion of it'ssomehow being so much better for you than a sodapop and therefor a…
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Stars fat as the stars that Van Gogh painted on his easel in Arles, a ring of candles burning on the brim of his hat. Stars that fill the night with delirium.
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A cloudy autumn morning greeted Sean as he stepped from the trolley at Grand Central Station. On his way to the tracks he purchased a copy of The New York Times dated October 24, 1934.
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I thought I would write a poemAbout a saguaro trying to please God The saguaro would spend a hundred yearsGrowing an arm and offering flowers in its fist —God barely notices. The saguaro flowers a crown for God.More arms. God then loses his patience…
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He's got a rager for Casablanca, the old Bogart and Bergman classic. I can't snap him out of it.
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The last of the Kazan Tatar Khans. Each dome represents a severed head.
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I've got to stop it. This can't go on. I've got stop yelling at people. Dog people. What's up with dogs of a sudden? Why does everyone suddenly seem to have a dog? I like dogs. Don't get me wrong. It's unleashed dogs that make me go ballistic. One reason is because …
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I am remembering this day for all days. Remembering. All days. Always. This is the day you threw the TV out the upstairs window. I'm remembering. Always. This is the day that started with you shaking the toaster over me so all the crumbs fell out.…
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They prize how she makes shit up on short notice
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A salesman, a born salesman like my brother, is always and only involved in the Moment, and it is the sale itself that is at the heart of the moment, and my brother Harris was really at the top of his form as a salesman. It can probably best be said, th
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Out in the world again, pretending to belong.
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