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Grace Gibbons is a way of life.
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I'd been working for two years as a barista in a Starbuck's in a giant, two-story Borders in an upscale mall on Rt. 355, a main artery between Washington D.C., and Frederick, Maryland. I'd finished my M.F.A in 2000 and was trying to build up steam for more grad…
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Papadad has one good eye. The other fell out during a rant and has since been replaced by a rifle scope, which he uses to scrutinise enemies.——Papadad is an authority on everything, even topics he has not researched. He expatiates on these at the dinner table,…
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"What say we adjourn to the bedroom and I give you a little demonstration of sexual acrobatics?”
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203261
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Bit by bit I was traveling away, we thought. Maybe I’d join myself, all together, in Toronto. Or in an industrial coffee can. Or in the closet. “Check the closet,” I pointed.
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2032114
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Upon learning the fetus has fingernails, Missy texts her boyfriend: It has nails! He won’t reply because he’s just left for war, but she does it just the same.
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203185
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For the next two hours, Ed goes nonchalantly about his business, buck naked the whole time. He putters around the house, writes e mails, waters plants, vacuums the rug and sweeps the porch. I pretend to ignore his nudity
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2031129
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in which creative destruction holds the heads of entire populations beneath the surface of the water in bathtubs until the bubbles stop
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it corrupts the smells//
and flavors of the world/
and plants its swollen face
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203194
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Three hours isn't that long.
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I am constricted by rings. The weight of self crushes me.
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There he was, naked and covered in green mud
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2031159
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She tells Tuesday's lover that there's nothing wrong with cheap thrills without anesthesia,
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Take my hand. Take my hand and we will sail through the atmosphere leaving trails of rainbow speckled life written in musical notes behind us. We can go anywhere you want, whenever you wish. The moon in 1974. I hear the earth looks gorgeous during the seventies.…
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Can you find happiness in the middle of a kidney stone attack?
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2031115
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After court, the three of us skipped third period, walked down to the river and huddled under the 6th Street Bridge.
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The drinking will continue/
until morale improves
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I don't want / to write about the body indulged, desires / denied, tortures invented, pleasures innate
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She hated the noiseless dying sound they made as he stuck the hook through their eyes. She always wanted for them to scream, but they never did. They didn’t even blink.
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With my heart preserved, I shoved a handful of baubles back in its place: some pages torn from my favorite books, a bass guitar string, a butane lighter, a shot of vodka. I stitched myself back up and left the roof in favor of the attic, where I hung my s
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Bearing the smell of paper on her fingertips. Ink in her hair.
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“I don’t know what’s going on there,” Hank, who hated his name and wanted a more Biblical name because those names (Jeremiah! Matthew! David!)—although common—sound ominous, said as he pointed up to the top of the apartment building that housed the whores
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god bless my shapeless head. we are good at becoming older. i feel incredibly negative all the time.
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maybe if I bat my lashes just right, or look prim enough to fly, you just might touch me tonight, and the dream will pop and fizz and I will wake somewhere, your hands smoothing these lines of worry away.
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None of us ever thought this would happen.
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What happens to a town when all of its songbirds go on strike?
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203055
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Crawl to the dark places I love most, loud music and off key laughter, glimmering green and brown bottles eagerly holding the dim lights overhead inside themselves like ransomed stars.
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“It’s a sad thing,” I said, “when a man has to suffer just for getting a little on the side.”
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....the first/
in a long history of indignities.
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