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Florida

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Now, at last, she finds what she's been searching for. Worms. Like bitty pale larva, like half-moons of air trapped under fingernails. She thinks she sees one twitch; she blinks more furiously and hates herself for it.

Ackermann

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When he took Medieval German Lit in graduate school, Ackermann read Der Ackermann aus Böhmen by Johannes von Tepl. His professor was amused both by his last name and that his grandparents were Germans from Bohemia. Of course, only his grandmother was from Bohemia and…

Thin Flame

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It was impossible that you wouldn't love me

The Meaning of Life

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One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living

thumbing through the Jesus book

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We’re on our way out, my brother and me, to the grave­yard.

der Morgenmuffel

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I sat on the corner of her desk ... Angela Merkel can be a sweetie when she wants to be.

My Expiration Date Approaches

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the doomed, but splendid, first year GT40.

Disappearing Ink

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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.

Life Experience

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Karen likes to make a big deal about life experience. Specifically how much more she has than me. What that actually means, she's never made clear. The definition changes and mutates as the years go by, always in her…

Three Little Ways

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There are three ways I can love you, not even half of one more.

Beasts

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It isn't for you to know

The Job

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Well, it was on a Monday and you know how bad Mondays are to begin with. I had been up real late the night before playin’ poker and drinkin’. I was thinking that after a couple of hours the hangover would wear off and I’d be okay, but instead I s

Basal Distance

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are you like the rest of us and you disagree with war yes i said i disagree with war and he said only one man agrees with war but he won t go to the war

Snatch 8 (the zombie flash sequence--it never dies)

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Oh, gracious mercy, oh...

If a Gun is Introduced, it Must Eventually Fire

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His note said: “I’m sick of low attendance.”

I'm No Chickenshit

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Would a chickenshit leave her like I did yesterday?

Gay Paree

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I had a crappy room on the fourth floor of a crappy hotel.

Longshot Down Undah

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He said stuff like ‘Crikey that's a knife',” she said, “it was bad, really really bad.”

secrets

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Don’t worry about what went aloud. I said nothing.

SECRETS

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they don't tell

Listening to Neil Young on a Gray Day and Understanding Clearly What My Grandfather Told Me Long Ago

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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?

Finder Girl

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We fold it end over end, meeting in the middle where she takes it, and I let go...

The Work of Beauty

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the steady, persistent work of beauty

Elusive Ideas in a Pineapple Under the Sea

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I cannot find my way back to the bubbling navel of the universe because of Spongebob Squarepants.

Irish Drunk

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Your honour stinks of failed fishing trips to Galway.

There is a feeling in my hands,

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There is a feeling in my hands, fingers, a restive, potential energy, drawing inward, reaching

Nausea

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It’s been a series of bad clams

The Wolves of Night Time Wrinkle Their Noses at the Thought of Running Towards the Sun, But Do it Any Ways

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Jesus was a cancer survivor and possibly a super nova.He ran with the Wolves of night time, with the women of the paleolithic era and hunted for meat when the blood didn't drip to their feet and create veritable red shoes like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.I am no longer in…

In the Alley

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as i sink down into the shadows crawling like a worm past cold bricks centuries old in my blood

A Jungle Tale

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He awoke with a start. This was not the first time he did so. He couldn't afford these occasional bouts of sleep. And certainly not in the land of the Tsantsa hunters.