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Noises

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

Bearing Witness

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I hold them to the light...

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…

Boner

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What if blood engorging your penis could be the result of emotions other than sex and violence? Wouldn't it be nice if your dick could be used to express the lengths and depths of other feelings?

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.

Picture Window

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You call your wife. “Do you see what I see?” you ask.

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.

Tell Me Where the Cows Are

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Pholcidae...Daddy Long-Legs

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

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,

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.

"The Misses Moses," from my collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (Norton 2010)

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The Misses Moses by Brad Watson from Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives The Moses sisters lived together, alone, in the fine old brick house near downtown where they…

Fertility

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Today I'm feeling fertilized by an egg—

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.

Greet Death

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where are you now?

Grace

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

Funhouse

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beatings and tear gas

Grunion Fishing

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As spilled on a sandy Corona del Mar beach/both in moonlight and starlight so lovely/and strangely sad as if receding still

Morning Sounds

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Morning sounds

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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with facets

chicken coup

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" I have no idea what's goin on out here, and I'm gonna find out one way or another."

she has one of those names that only a southern girl could pull off

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“But I don't HAVE an accent,” she said. With an accent. “Tell him I don't have an accent, y'all.” Looking from one friend to another. Messy ponytail bouncing. I just stared. I may have blinked. A couple times. Every syllable…

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…

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.