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Versus

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She vs her.

Brave New World

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awoke in confusion, fear and hurt never seen before that day a year past

Safe

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She left knives and hot pots with handles akimbo. Like a guardian angel, he turned them in. Like an ungrateful Eve, she turned them back out.

Bearing Witness

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I hold them to the light...

Relics

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Theresa Esposito woke to the smell of pignoli cookies baking. The sweet scent made her stomach rumble. She was ten-years-old today. And she felt ten. Her hair, her ears, her eyes, her toes — everything felt ten.

How To Write a Poem

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an EZ How to Guide in 50 simple steps

Five Million Yen: Chapter 3

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Now you are a raving bare-forked fool madman with nothing.

An Account of my Dwelling (for Kamo no Chômei)

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[B]y fleeing the city to live on the outskirts of nowhere—a place so far off the beaten path that even Duras’s aging Mr. Andesmas would have felt isolated—I was of course trying to escape from none other than myself.

Monday

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The door shuts slowly to something that’s allegedly mine and it sits there and waits until I come home just like you.

Grace

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The instant you remember gratitude with enough focus to spring free its power...

21st Century Living

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there should be a word for it.

Tell Me Where the Cows Are

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Pholcidae...Daddy Long-Legs

Mon Oncle

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Mrs. L. was sitting on a love seat in her nightgown. She was sitting in a man’s lap....

Arcana Magi Pure Vol.3 - c.3

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Mayumi and her friends arrived at the beach. The sun was near setting for the night, and a few stars began an early peek in the twilit sky.

version

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THIS is what happened — the dead went into remission. Dated may 10 2010. Or it could have been some other day. They were going to be restored later. That's what we were being told. The dead were being given stones to mark their remission. They were getting…

Noises

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It was midnight. I was outside the cottage, digging another row of star-shaped holes for the shrubbery.

Quitting

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—It’s difficult to say, he said. I have mood swings. Women don’t like that. They become upset.

The Concord of This Discord

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-Love is a rushing of blood

You Never Forget Your First

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There is nothing like your first time, and by that I am referring of course to the first time you purchased a 45.Going to a record store and buying a 45 is a uniquely Boomer experience. Because, alas, there are no more 45s. Or, for that matter, record stores. The…

Rocket

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The rocket shone in the distance. Cape Canaveral had never looked so pretty.

If I Were a Chemist, Not Now, but Maybe In The 1920s

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She said, “I think I’m pregnant,” but I thought that the sidewalk looked cleaner than usual,

Greet Death

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where are you now?

Farm

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Still as the knife on the counter there still. Like mothballs in a chest. One with clear bags and newspaper clippings and your scarf inside it. The baby girl could put a mothball in her mouth and suck it like a penny. The way too close to a light bulb bur

Funhouse

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beatings and tear gas

Eight-Legged Freaks

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I’ve just moved to New York City and, somehow, Scarlett Johansson is at the same party I’m at.

The Assistant

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The Assistant is lost again in a grid city. Again she feels disconnected from the world. Where she is the sound has been switched off.

Morning Sounds

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Morning sounds

The Tale Of Brave Grinelda

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Once upon a time in the days of old There lived a poor tailor who- I am told- Did brag that his daughter Spun straw into gold!

We're Still Here

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the beeps, rhythmic, tell us that you're still with us

Chocolate Diamonds

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