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She’s changed leaves to emeralds. Worn a shawl of inked birds’ wings.
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I was shooting baskets in the driveway when the Mexican kid delivered the groceries. He drove in fast and loud . . .
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The crowd- which consisted of exclusively men with beards and djembe drums and women with hairly legs poking out of corduroy patchwork skirts- cowered and crawled in fear around the angry man-bomb, mortally frightened yet encouraged to shimmy because the
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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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Our afterlife depends upon//
what interesting shape
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For the past 6 months our love for each other had been akin to a chess game. We avoided each other’s traps, fortified our defenses, set up gambits of our own, exchanged pieces of our lives, and now it was endgame. Checkmate. Time to move on.
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I held her hand through two divorces, I warned her that gorgeous Geoffrey was homosexual when she was oblivious, and I fed her children when she was off at rehab (four times before it 'took').
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it's time for the cold, antiseptic
cloth to briskly remove the evidence.
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I started walking around the Jube like any other sheep, lemming, or penguin: passing plate glass windows, one after another.
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Another bird hits the large plate glass patio doors as I am sipping my morning coffee.
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You’ve known her since grade school and even though you’ve never copped a feel, it gave you a strange chill when you heard boys talking about her breasts, pressing against madras or chamois with some devilish life force, or how one day she’ll fuck l
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Once upon a time there was a Vietnamese restaurant. And then there were two, and four, and eight...
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“When I was six years old, Dad came home from Vietnam and picked me and Mama up from her sister's house in Boston. We packed a U-Haul with everything we owned from T.V. to toothbrush. Dad hitched the trailer to the Rambler and drove us South, back home to Carolina. A…
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An yet we are all inmates...
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Sora rubbed her neck as Azure gave her attention. She did not know where to begin, thinking about what to say first.
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saw the world was a mess
I did nothing about it, poured myself some apple juice
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Sparky took to me immediately. In some atavistic canine way he knew I was simpatico to a dog like him.
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“I'm thinking about math class,” she said. “The solution to three factorial.”
“Easy,” Leo said.
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But that night we were happy, looking all around at the bright lights of the several cities that we could see.
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Falling//
is something that comes quite naturally/
to puffed up things. Like the soufflé
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The day came shyly up to me like a rolling orange thing. Perhaps of alien origin, but not if the Buddha of our foolish hopeless dreamer inside has anything to say about it. It said, pick me up. I did. It looked like forever on the inviting horizon with trees as…
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It's just another night in the old city, perched in the skeletal radio tower with my collection of telescopes
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The sound built up, louder and louder causing birds and insects to fly into the air. Then it stopped.
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"Shit," said the Charge Nurse. "Not again."
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in a puddle of water, the butterfly rests on a stone
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Marge bought the rug on-line.
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The drapes are closed against the sunlight, but Ginny can feel someone in the room. She peers through barely open eyes so as not to let on she's awake. She adjusts her position in a way she hopes mimics sleep, turns her head to the side. A woman…
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