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The bungalow was unlocked. The screen
door was unhooked. The trout on the
counter was deboned.
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Bessie Bighead is real good at being crazy. It's all the experience she's had.
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The world is full of dead dogs
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Let’s play a game. I’m thinking of a word.
Do we have to?
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“Sorry, I farted,” Ted says after the nurse leaves. He squeezes my hand like he’s telling me grave news.
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and say did you know it was written just for you? But I will. No one will walk up to you on the busy street one day and say did you know he loved you this much? But I'm telling you now. What good would a pyramid be or a hanging garden or a starry…
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Mama reads about UFOs in paperback books and newspapers with big cloudy pictures. Her girlfriends know about flying saucers, too. They get drunk at night when they are sitting all alone in their living rooms because they are divorced or married to men who
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I thought each day died inside the clock.
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Maybe she would get married and have a baby, she said. Not with me, I said
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They come to mind/
like ice flowers/
on the small panes
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The eggs got badder as the cook got madder
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Dear End of the World. We're having a party. Stop by if you're in the neighborhood.
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The river’s not/
a river but/
a FEMA map/
of flooding probabilities.
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Mabel constructed the quintessential boundary. She carefully boiled down her pots and pans, her jewelry, her copper kettle, and the foils from forty six bottles of white pear cider into a silky metallic stew. Mable smeared the mixture onto a burlap…
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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.
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It was war without beginning or end.
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“Just curious,” Sean says, “but what’s up with the old Pinto out front?”
She looks at him. “It’s my boyfriend’s.” Her green eyes are flat: What business of yours?
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Over the years, his face
began to alter
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I fell into a crevasse once.
I jumped off a bridge once, right before a train was to hit me.
Jumped off roofs several times.
I have a thing for jumping.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to nachos.
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"...when my daddy found out about Jasper, it was too late— mama was already round-&-radiant with Jasper's child. "
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7:23. The grid abandons us.
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There's a mutual recognition...
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When I was sixteen, my dad’s new wife and her daughter, Mary Ann, moved in, so I had to get out. I found a burned-out one story place on Corey Road near the gas plant. When it wasn’t raining, you could see right up through the roof to the stars.
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There are no atheists or agnostics in our family.
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I liked the taste in my mouth, mint and cigarettes and fresh and filthy.
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When you live in New Orleans, the only time you ever get to see cows is at the Winn-Dixie 24 Hour Super Store, in the back between the dairy and the seafood.
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The first thing she remembers is sunshine, then her own dawning, and feeling the lumps on her head and bruises on her face and pain in her heart and aloness of her soul.
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He stands at the 53 bus stop, boy shadow dust-cloaked and fading, jangling her keys in his pocket, echoes of a journey cut short.
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