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“They say she lives alone out there.” “What, like out in the woods?” “Not like way back in a cabin or anything, but in a little house out there off the road. I'm not even sure she has a car.” “What, does she…
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Dinner conversation reminds me of the chatter of birds. Happy talk. Nothing real.
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"I remember thinking, 'Good.'
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No matter how you do it, forgetting something doesn’t mean as much once you’ve forgotten.
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He was instantly on her, pulling at her nightgown
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It was like watching one of those vintage eighteen-frames-per-second films of someone trying to open a stuck umbrella.
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Xanax, A hand gun, And the courage to pull the trigger
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Shred the roses he posted, fling the petals like slideshows of storms.
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Abominables do roam the earth; I know it.
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A section of the baseball field that curved inward was filled with clear water. Birds were dipping their feet and the tips of their wings in. The sun set them apart enhancing the ice-sharp oblivion in their eyes. I swore I heard them say "Marry me.
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I could trust that most nights I would drop off to sleep at around midnight and shortly thereafter dream an “us dream”, a how we were dream, a sensing of our bodies undulating, then moving faster, moving with the waves of a special music only we could hear, with…
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People usually take fonts for granted.
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She drinks a chocolate martini. I fold myself up and slide into her pocket.
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I'm in our bed eating yesterday's pizza and chain-watching pirated foreign horror films
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Luke was in the gutter, his face in stagnant water littered with cigarette butts, condom wrappers, and green shards of glass from broken beer bottles. A man was kicking him in the face with a boot the size of a U-boat, over and over and over again. Blood
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Just like D-Ray White’s tapping still bounces off the mountains if the right person is listening, Hasil’s hoots and howls are trapped in record wax like a blood-drunk mosquito in amber.
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Something about shadows and last time and driving.
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severe snow storm coming. I'm looking for a parking spot and listening to Machito & Charlie Parker
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150100
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The sound of the crowd’s excitement, their smiles, and laughter started to turn Mayumi’s thoughts about life in the Magi world.
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"Good, it's Link Wray again,"
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I asked him where he hurt and he said everywhere.
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I love going fast. The last bank I robbed didn't know what hit them.
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Tears and tears and tears flowed
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“You have no idea what your lives will be like if you can get out of the ‘hood. You could be driving Volvos, eating Tuscan cuisine, getting MacArthur ‘genius’ grants!”
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Bake sweet rolls and make love to your new wife, fall asleep for three years and grow a beard.
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“Do we really want to treat her? Is she even really sick, or does she live in a country as real as ours, but one we can never visit?”
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“I mean it, Hanna. I don't want you to.” But his leg felt carved away where her head had lain. One stupid thing jostling another for attention. He was afraid that if she touched him again, he'd have her on the ground.
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I met Barry Hannah once in my life. I’d come to Oxford, MS, to meet an entirely different writer whom I thought then and think now very highly of. I’d also come to escape from another slew of regrets. Oxford is a great city to run away to.
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