Alphabetical stories

Second Hand

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“Okay, here is a wild idea. Let's each choose outfits from the second hand store for the other to buy and wear to a bar for a drink..." Famous second to last words?

Second Nature

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Women can often be found Sizing up each others’ tits

Second Steps

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The train station offers a pleasant atmosphere, though it exists as an in between place. People only come here to go somewhere else.

Second Thoughts

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I caught sight of him standing near the nails.

Second verse, same as the first

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Most people assume I’m gay, and have assumed I’m gay since I was in fifth grade. Maybe sooner. Maybe fifth grade is just my first memory of recognizing what other people believed true about me. But coming out as a gay man in 1987, when I was in fifth gra

Second Wave, 1944 (with notes)

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Here were men trying their best to kill other men....

Second Wife

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If things continue to go bad for her she will become second wife in six years.

Second-Shift Parenting

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Your mom’s favorite joke right now is how enamored I am with the chair the nurse brought me, the one that converted into a bed. Apparently, it’s all I can talk about when people ask about your birth. But really what can I say? If I say the birth was easy,

Secondhand: Four Inscriptions

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To whoever reads this next--Henry James makes my head hurt.

Secret Life of Storms

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Someday, the Grim Reaper, wrapped in hooded cowl, the thorny stem of a red rose clenched between his teeth, will climb up the garden trellis to my bedroom window

Secret Lives of Cell Phones

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...collapse of the human world. Go, cell phones!

Secrets

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She buried her secrets in a bowl of brownie mix....

secrets

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Don’t worry about what went aloud. I said nothing.

SECRETS

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they don't tell

Secrets

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The one he liked best was a middle aged woman who didn't wear underwear. She had a terrific figure.

Secrets / Cigarettes

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We gave our cigarettes names.

Secrets and Piles of Money

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The dog awakens at the sound of a petal falling, sure that barbarians are at the gate. She opens wide her yellow teeth.

Secrets of Philadelphia

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Bruce Springsteen begins singing from the loud speaker he was bruised and battered and couldn’t tell what he felt.

Secrets of the Kama Sutra

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“No names,” she said. “I am the mysterious woman, and you are the handsome stranger.”

Secrets; Opening to "Woolgathering"

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Some of us, however, turn our secrets over in our souls, churning them with the fury of the howling winds of a January night. They are eroded and shaped and fine-tuned with the precision of a jeweler; the deeper and darker they are, the more brilliant of

Section

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In one section of the map C climbs a staircase.

Section 8

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To a desert island I pick a book of crosswords for my one item. It is a desert island. What could be more practical? I awake in the middle of the night, an itch in my throat. I blow my nose. Weird gobbets of blood ring my Kleenex. It drizzles out now, wet here, gelatinous…

Sectioned

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“Sorry, I farted,” Ted says after the nurse leaves. He squeezes my hand like he’s telling me grave news.

Secure

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This is the Minuteman tine/ of the three-tined fork// we can stick into the modern world/ when it’s done-- a MAD triad.

Secure Children

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Overheard from the back seat of car:

Security

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Her preferred post-coital activity is to pant, to suck in air with urgent greed.

Security Notes to the Museum of Winter

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Behind the wainscoting, the mice scratch, struggling to keep warm.

Sed-a-give

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The way she once felt for another, naked mornings in her bed, and Young Frankenstein. Sed-a-give.

sediment

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I'm re-invented on Main St. every single day.

See Jane

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Jane watched her mother remove her wedding ring with butter.