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My brother died in his sleep almost two months ago. He was 25. He was addicted to pharmaceuticals. Two days before he died, he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed his truck into a highway sign. It was the last thing he owned. He had been living with m
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Every night famous authors read not only to us, but to a duck. A wild female who emerged from the lake just as we were gathering, settled her gray-brown feathers down not three feet from the podium, tucked her head inside her wing, and remained there. If the duck liked…
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Everybody called her The Crier because from time to time we would hear her crying.
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Plans were all set. We were leaving this town. We'd been creeping around long enough and Marla wanted nothing more than to get out and away from the shallow, old bastard she married. “Fuck his mansion and fuck his country club”, she said. We both agreed that he…
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Where the General is, the world is data and patterns and signatures.
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New waitress/bartender
draws my attention to
bare ankles and red hair
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It’s good to have some,
Extra weight -
Something they can
Grab on to,
In the sheets,
When it’s late-
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And I watched,
from her warm bed,
the curtains dancing
in the window
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Miguel's mom told everyone if you pressed your ear against the knot, Jesus would tell you special secrets.
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He remembers his father’s concrete slab hands. Balled into fists they resembled kettlebells.
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...when suddenly I was pushed from behind, smack into the deep end.
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Now that I am dead, my god will fight your god...
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This is me pitching a recently completed screenplay to a film producer at lunch the other day:
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As a child I drowned myself in the pages of books, and as a writer I prefer to be left alone with my imagination.
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Okay, I'm here; I'm participating. Enjoying the back & forth with other writers. Waiting for penises and fetuses to move down the "Most Recent" list, but working around them. Well, that's kind of unintentionally visual.This essay, like many other reads on here, is…
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It turned out Eel’s brain corrects for imbalance, and he can only feel danger for a moment or two.
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when unicorns took to flight / the poles shifted / the world flooded / and Pangaea busted open like calloused palm
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She said, "Tonight let's talk of things untrue and he said, ' Like black is white and night is day and up is down and in is out?' and she said, 'Yeah, those things we know to be false for sure like you know, like...well, you could say, 'I really love you' and I could say,…
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Jeanne and I were married for eight years. I never knew her.
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On my twenty-second birthday, in the spring of 1979, I had a crawfish boil, my first. Ninety pounds of red mudbugs on a picnic table spread with newspaper, my birthday cake sitting at the end of the table like an afterthought.I hadn't…
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I'm pulled in by the music
like a rogue wave
and he has no idea I'm drowning...
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Alas, the wind, the rain/
and plate tectonics take temples,/
fire and sediment papyrus and clay,
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we wipe the blood of our progress
from our hands.
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The last one I tipped over the edge was just like all the others: fragile, pale, humming to himself as he sat on the ledge overlooking the gardens.
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The winter sun was going down and she watched it out the window.Light like shards of glass,time had melted.It took hold.She was held down by brown leather straps and she couldremember the smell of incense and little hands and little eyesof an infant cold on the bed.She…
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We shot out the windows of an abandoned building nearby so as to trick them into thinking we’d had snipers stationed in that building.
They shot at the abandoned building.
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Midway through the fall semester, an unremarkable girl in Professor Woody's Advanced Fiction workshop dyed her hair an unnatural shade of dark, changed her name to Tasmina, and turned in a story filled with made-up words.
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