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Ron Vara speaks out at last.

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He’s an empty sock

thing

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1234

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My letters are getting lost in the soup

I Said God Damn

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the space between two antelopes is a canyon,

Second Wave, 1944 (with notes)

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Here were men trying their best to kill other men....

From This Distance

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Can you remember how we could each disappear completely. . . .

When Janey Sees Cats

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Wherever she looks, Janey sees cats; staring in at her through the kitchen window, peering out from beneath cars, and eyeing her through hedges. With their sinuous bodies and merciless stares, they remind her of her sister. "Plain Jane and Scary Mary", the dog and…

Poof

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Yesterday's protest...

At Waffle House

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Staring at my $10 All Star Breakfast with extra bacon

Six or Eight Legs

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I killed it. Didn't even relocate it back to its outdoor home, as I had work to do. This is being human.

The Maze

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The man with the truncheon emerged at the monorail car's forward connecting doorway. One moment the space was vacant, a faux metal canvas for the dazzling sunlight streaming through a grime-encrusted window. When next Theseus Harrow looked up from his seat the dark-suited…

The Case of the Phantom Paperclip

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I was sitting on the steps in the entryway to our apartment building taking off my running shoes when I spotted a paperclip on the floor. I assumed it had fallen from the mail that my wife had just taken from our mailbox. Once my shoes were removed, I went down to pick…

Tyka

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I open the door...

The Blue Bird

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The blue bird tapped at my window and pecked my crumbs. I talked to him as to a small person about the things of life, of flowers, of trees and the sky. Even at times pretending he was erudite, I questioned him about evolution and extinction. He looked at me as if he…

The Sound of One Story Clapping

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And aren't we are so then so rarely The hero in another's story When we want to be. And why are we so always Rounding stories on the heroes Who don't want to be? And aren't we are so then are so rarely Heroes in each others' …

Silent Valley

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“Silent Valley: The quietest place in the Western hemisphere.” Jerry pulls back the throttle and squints so the wrinkles deepen around his eyes and creep out past the frame of his sunglasses. Even through my headphones and the thwok of the helicopter blades I…

Me and Sid and Tom and John Yount

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True story

We Were Having A Party But We Weren't Invited

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The Wind

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The wind comes up relentless in the afternoon

Beer and Wine, Paint and draw, No Blue Sky

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My friends stopped listening to musicas their skin changed into nano speakers, printed like spores on their phone's features. I told them, you know they only want to sell you something more. What, they said, we're not idiots. I still believe in…