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When Spectacle Replaces Ritual,

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The aisle, nave and/ transept twist themselves/ into an auditorium.

Scent of danger

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Sitting in the SUV awaiting the trooper behind us I felt a warning tingle.

Testosterone

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"All he wants to do is watch the Hallmark Channel"

Marion and Carolee

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I never took more than a few pills at a time, just enough for a treat on Friday night.

Having brunch with my friends

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I ordered biscuits and gravy at the Sunset Grill, Just before the Amber Alert

Her Dream Princes

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They live a simple life..two solitudes by lamplight.

Flaming Beauty

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Okay, it was a long shot but who in that room wasn’t desperate to shift that shit? All our jobs depended on it.

WHITE

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I reached for that hair and the air zagged white...

Security Notes to the Museum of Winter

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

Robin Eggs

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"The sheriff's mother-in-law made the smoothest 'shine in the county."

Fifty Bucks, More or Less by

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eve

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she lays there wrapped in his baseball sheets

Perfect Lady

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The Tea Party member was married but cuter. He worked as a caulker, a tub and basin man.

Flush

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"Nice one, sir," the toilet said.

The Boy I Didn't Grow Up With

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I don't remember much before my brother moved out, but one thing that stands out in my mind was the bathroom we shared. He'd pull a stool up to…

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.

Quintet in a Natural Key

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I like the cool and dark beneath my rock./ It protects me from the glare and scorch/ of noonday sun and the chilling shadows/ of midnight moon.

Assiduity Twelve

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Rasheed changes his mind about working for me. He can't bring himself to break with Uzma. The bond between them is too strong. I admire his loyalty, to her and to her parents. Don turns out to be my most reliable ally. Plus, he brings a ragtag security force with…

Cold

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I told her I didn't love her. She said love wasn't important; she wanted to marry a man she could respect.

Give Back the Moon

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to us! Without it we are less than human and cannot guarantee your safe passage through our woods any more. Give us back the moon. It is the primary element in the makeup of our deepest breaths taken to invoke all cycles to continue. It contains…

(give me a real moment with a living god and I’ll go all the way)

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I remember, when I was selling real estate, how you could always tell when there'd been a divorce. One room was conspicuously left emptied of its contents, and these rooms were never swept or tidied. Instead they were left just as they were when the par

Zaire

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The dictator, what'sisface, was crazy nuts.

The Forefinger of Lenin

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Who puts Vaseline on the forefinger of Lenin? I want to know

Cracked Heart Reigns in My Eyes

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Rainy eyes fall fast somewhere close to me Riding the wind like lust

The Exhaustion of Dreams

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I like it best when I wake up And the wild rain of dreaming ends.

Hunters

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At fifteen...

A Place in the Sun

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What grabbed the mind when you heard about it was the way he did it.

Home in Biloxi

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Her father stuffed years worth of stories into the phone, a sort of begging: how the new dog rode in the golf cart and retrieved lost Pinnacles; how the garage’s rent was too expensive; how the doctor gave him new pills and how he had lost weight and cu

It's really not the same

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It wasn't the same as taking a course with Ginsberg. Everyone knew Ginsberg. Nick Cave, too, everyone knew him. Waiting lists were full months in advance for those classes, everyone sent in resumes and writing samples, praying, begging to be included. Lish was just an…

Pewter Badge

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I never killed a cop before.