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It is almost as if there isn’t a wedge of wood between us – I can feel him inches away from me. I can’t control the sigh or the tears that escape my body.
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I'll never be a Republican Megadonor or a Doomed Aviatrix. But I'm okay with that.
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She served him pie she knew was ruined.
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I wake up with the taste of mud in my mouth. Ashy, sulfurous, charred, with traces of rotten shellfish.
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You know moments like these. You know how your mother ruins them.
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Last night Ariana our second daughter, only 8,wanted to baptize you for your birthday. Her hair shimmered and the face of her joy reminded me of Two Oceans Plateauin the Beartooth Range in southern Montana.As she walked from the sink she carrieda large…
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Bag worms hang in their cloudy white hammocks. This is the month of webs when long-bodied yellow and black spiders sign their autographs.
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You are walking through a canyon made of shelving units lined with colorful masterpieces of three-dimensional minimalist design
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“What part of ‘only bettors can watch the Yeti fight’ do you not understand?!”, he yelled. “Either place a bet or get the hell out of here!”
I begrudgingly gave him all of the money I had on me, about two hundred, and placed it on Demonio B
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Quail looked up at her. Unsmiling, challenging.
Lemme just go wash my hands, he said.
She closed the door, bolted it. You won’t need your hands.
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Her fingers scampered over the table, practicing the deft stitching of the basilar artery.
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Tension slipped from my grip on the dagger as my legs and faith fell apart.
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He spends his Sunday morning spraying WD-40 through the straw-like stream attachment at the expansive paper nest of beige and ivory striped wasps.
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You may think you've tasted envy, but yours was just a sour sip of wine at a civilized wine-tasting. Mine is bottom-shelf, well-brand gin in a biker bar with miss-the-urinal piss stains on the floor.
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On the day they were born, the old mother eagle named her chicks Faith, Hope, and Charity.
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Everyone was shocked when they heard Tinkerbelle was six days gone and had got so heavy she couldn't fly. Who could have done it, everyone asked, but Tinkerbelle wasn't telling. So no one knew. That isn't true. I knew, and in this Declaration I swear I will tell…
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Tell them words are math counting forever four letters of truth
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What in the name of God’s green earth does this say? “Chifferobe if you can of Aztec in coffee can”?
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the urgent, naked glow of opportunity
or
the dim fluorescent nuisance of an object out of reach
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He was still on the ground...
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The snake-like veins began to pulsate angrily, and viciously about his body. Quickly he rose up about the girl. His heart was now pounding rapidly against his chest. Outstretched, were his wings, the width of the balcony, white and decrepit and old, yet s
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One must be drenched in words.
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Take shelter from the rain inside the Museum of Sex.
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These days I wear a flag pin.
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We are moments away from the end, and it feels like it.
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“You should've let him drown,” she once told me. Doesn't she see that I did? I'll let her drown, too.
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Uzma accepts my invitation for dinner.
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"Did I have a choice? Could I just open my eyes, did I have to ‘see’ as he was telling me now I could? I decided to go for it. What did I have to lose? This was all a dream, too much driving to get here, too much reunion, too much food, too much beer. Or
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so I tighten hands with my castaway and say/you failed to impress in your folded peacock dress
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In the dark, alone after she was gone, he would whisper her name into his pillow and fight the tears more out of shear exhaustion than anything else. He had mourned for her even before she had passed, as he watched helpless while the disease marched slowly and…
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