Alphabetical stories

Adios

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After seventeen years of struggling to wake up early in the morning, I had managed to wake up on my own. Actually, I think it was because I was unable to sleep that I was up so early. I had laid on the bed all night, staring at the dark ceiling, taking in every…

Admiral Cheng Ho's Lost Compass

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“Cheng Ho didn’t go just Cape Horn; treasure ships visit Australia and America. His very advanced compass. Not just point north-south. Show east-west too.”

Admission

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I can’t hold a job I can’t hold a hammer

Admit Nothing

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Traveling in half-lit fluorescence, she smiles up at me, pale and strained

Admonition

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Let routine/ propel you through/ the day after/ the day before.

Adopt a Dolphin

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Love to everyone.In spite of painterschest deep in the wheat fields. Of poets inthe belfry. Bird flu.Love to everyone.In spite of rats asbig as dogs in NewYork city. Or blueplastic bags stuck onbranches. Whales beachingthemselves. Everyone'sgone to the moon. Loveto…

Adrift

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Picking up a perfect stranger—perfect meaning dead, in this case—and shaping him into the man you’d want him to be is not so easy.

Adultery

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-- Adultery I took her out to a drive-in movie and we had sex in the back seat of my car. Then went into the concession stand to get something sweet after so much sex, and everyone was in there doing the same thing, you could tell by…

Adultery and Africa

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“What would you think if I committed adultery?” She pauses very briefly before replying. “What, you got time on your hands?”

Adults at Home

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The afternoon my little sister won her first U.S. Open, I was also busy, having strenuous sex with David Solemn, a man I’d met earlier that morning at Dunkin Donuts. We did it on the white living room carpet in my parent’s new Connecticut house while

Advice For Aspiring Writers

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Published writers will tell you that the most important thing you can do as a beginning writer is to know your markets! So this month, we'll talk about two of the markets open to you and your riveting but as yet unpublished prose -- Fling Magazine and Clubhouse…

Advice from the Receptionist

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The president is truculent today.

Advice from Topeka

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... I know all about ax murderers because Elmo, my uncle by marriage to my sister who never had any sense was one. He done killed six women in a farm outside of Topeka in the space of they say three minutes, including my sister and her bingo friends . . .

Advice To A Young Poet

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Touch these words with your mind. They will create an elephant with an unidentifiable itch.

Advice to Horror Girl Victims

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leave a trail of potential weapons dropped from your shaking hands. you must always make it easy for him to follow.

Advice to the Lovelorn at the Mall

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Beware of shouting Dress Barn, Dress Barn! when having an orgasm And don’t tell him you were seeing Starbucks when you came

Aerobics 6 p.m.

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Dizzy but still alive Inside this conversation I ask if you have a sister And if she'll know me If I'm with you.

Aesthetic Strategy

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it acquires a fine translucence

Affair

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No clouds No rain

Affairs of the Heart

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The next morning, I was shaved, skinned and stuffed like a Thanksgiving turkey for its untimely demise.

Aflame

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the only safe place for him was anywhere he and Barkley could huddle,

Aforementioned

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I flung the basketball at the hoop and Cooper shagged the ball. He was the luckiest bastard I knew. ...

After

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The next week, she sends a small white box in the mail / with tissue paper, a ceramic mold the color of bleached bone—

after

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when the mirror cracks my eyes won't cry it's a perfectly respectable (romance) between her and i

AFTER

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Two lovers — their genders / faces / social identities / etc. up to the viewer’s imagination (though I caution you, dear reader, not to imagine yourself in this role due to the psychic intensity of the following passages) — writhe against each other

AFTER

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You haven't lived until she dances just for you ..

After all

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The questions piled up so high I thought I'd neverget through the door.The ease of alcohol, the incline of submission. Guttural sounds and spittle.Wipe down the morning afterwith a shower.Redress in last night's clothes.There's coffee if you want it.Sincerity too -no,…

After Appomattox

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The renegade states- Virginia, Georgia,/ Texas, and the rest- should have lost their names

After Baptism, He Speaks

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The world is full of dead dogs

After Bukowski

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The night she left she claimed she fucked Bukowski.