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time. Night after night he's up, restless. What if she knew his plans? If only he'd bypass his miscalculations and slip through
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The giant hurled threats and insults. He brandished a knife that was a foot long.
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I looked at her, shook my head and tried to smile. She smiled back, beaming a radiance that pushed away the chill.
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All wolves, my child, want to be eaten.
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"Everything except food and sex."
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"Do you have to call your brother a loser? He is not a loser and that was just uncalled for"
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The moon begins to rise over L.A.
while the roaches try to crawl up
the sides of the mountains surrounding the L.A. Basin.
While fires rage in the forests of the night,
here comes the moon over the horizon,
big and haunted, pock-marked and coo
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Evening was drawing nigh and Mosby's horse had tired from the daylong ride.
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I'm a librarian. A reader. I identify as a four-eyed person. I've always worn glasses. I got my first pair in the second grade. It was a miracle! The blurry world I'd inhabited all my life suddenly came into focus. I could see the blackboard! I could read street signs! I…
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They drifted for months, locked between the vast merciless blue and the withering sun. Their faces blistered and their minds bleached and weary. They conspired in the shadows, drew plans in the sawdust, they grew confident and…
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The unfanged obscene had finally caught him in the night.
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Q: This name in Basque means “owns a new house.” A: What is “Xavier”?
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Now, gazing into Greg’s expectant eyes, the only Chinese word Deepti could summon was kuei. Ghost. Before that summer, her mother flipped through the pages of Maxine Hong Kingston’s memoir every day, as if she could glean magic from the touch of her finge
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He asked me to bury him in Vegas.
Instead, I had him cremated in Trenton.
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The younger woman asked Scott if he loved Jesus.
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Newhouse returned his gaze to his wet palm, which he lifted to his nose with suspicion, sniffed again and again, then struggled to move out from under the growing stream.
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Clayton had a grin like the hand of a beast that stretched as long as her gravel road...
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For years I watched behind the glass
While merry parties purpled past
But now the world’s a Solemn Mass
And I can only think.
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I was Orson Welles skulking in the shadows and you Alida Valli;
our time measured like footsteps advancing on Gethsemane.
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When Bill was in the hospital, one month bleeding into the next, his mother visited exactly twice, both times complaining of the things she needed or couldn’t get rid of: mop heads, bleach, dustpans, detergents, grease, turgid water in the basement. And
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A constellation appears in the shape of Van Gogh’s missing ear.
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Once, when I had not talked to you in a long time, I woke with your name in my mouth.
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I look for the boy we met inside the club, the one who claimed he loved playing with matches, setting fire to churches. I spot him smoking a cigarette, standing so cool against the side of the club, like he might be the nephew of some Viking guitarist hun
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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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"What say we adjourn to the bedroom and I give you a little demonstration of sexual acrobatics?”
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The white Styrofoam box sits on the prep station. It was delivered a few hours earlier. Half awake, I don a black apron and grab a large cutting board. To keep it from slipping, I put the cutting board on a damp towel laid…
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Eons later, Bobo evolves into Shakespeare. Bonus feature: wings.
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Three months had passed since the grease fire melted Jasmine's face.I sat beside her on the hospital bed and held her clamy hand as she trembled. "No more stir-fry," I joked. The doctor and nurse faked a chuckle. Jasmine might have, but the bandages muffled…
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