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Born to Be Alive

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When Mt. St. Helens erupted, I knew that was the end of Bigfoot.

Our Merchant-Ivory Weekend

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“A shibboleth is a test—a way to separate da wheat from da chaff that's as old as the Bible, but as new as the latest trend in men's fashions,” Gus says.

Ring, Ring, Ring

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If this is trouble, please call someone else.

ROLLING LIKE THUNDER

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The ocean smelled like decomposed plant life and clinically despicable vagina, but I still spoke of its power and my fear of it in moonlit clichés and she still listened.

A Dream Lay In Wait

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Roanne hungered. Memory had ruled her forever. Shards really, edged like machetes: daddy, whose fingers had eyes in the dark. Momma, ensconced in the shadows. Inside the church, those pairs of short…

Small Snow Haiku.

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A small snow.

The Judge's Wife Part 10

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The Judge waited for the perfect wave.

Pop Bottle?

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Who ever saw an open upright pop bottle on the street?

The Artist

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The story itself is not much longer than a snippet. What is a snippet anyway?

A Word About Everything

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I remember having a beer once And feeling like a minor god And I know in some lie you told Your life began making sense And I also know that the mind likes logic But the heart loves chaos I just hope flies land on the butter of your soul

Soliloquies of Mr. and Mrs. Macb.

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A small bar of glycerin soap floated in the sink full of bloody water . . .

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.

Killing Hope

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Hope was beauty before I even knew what beauty was with her golden pigtails, brilliant blue eyes and an infectious smile — even after Jamie Delano flung his Frisbee, knocking out Hope’s two front teeth.

Insidious

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Thirty years later – and all the years in between – Alan Walton would remember how insidious it was, the anger that started that night with Quinton Harris, fifteen years old and the undisputed leader of the troop, and spread like a virus to the other boys

This Is

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Have you ever spent twilight in a old pasture?

Real Heart

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A heart which is alive despite everything in the world that wants to deaden it.

Professor Einstein's Living Proof (an excerpt)

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Light “I can escape the feeling of complicity in it only by speaking out.” The professor arrives on time, sockless. The former a sign of his polite upbringing. The latter, his lack of pretense and high …

Helene

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My little friend is no bigger than a minute. An even five feet tall, if that.

Ketchup and eggs

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As a young baby, perhaps a year old, I have a memory of sitting on myfathers lap, in front of a coal stove to keep us warm, while my mothercooked soft boiled eggs for him every morning. He would break offa piece of his toast, dip it in the egg, and feed it to…

Time Travel Telephone

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And now, the weather. The Cloud Wranglers have roped three solid clouds this morning, preventing the clouds from raining iron bars onto Human Brain Storage Center #17.

At the End of the World There Will Only Be Renegade Lovers

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I didn't believe in hiding secrets or broken arrows. So I told my new girlfriend, who in earnest, tried shedding pounds like ugly memories, who glued herself to my shag carpet, watching exerise videos--that I didn't sleep alone. I tried to be as sensitive as possible,…

Salinger Pays Caulfield a Visit

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Out in the world again, pretending to belong.

Getting to Work

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And I don't know how long it will be until she comes outside and figures it all out. Figures me out.

Static

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The days cut off by damp chill with every thought a different variety of protection.

Working things out in my head

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A shot in the dark and everything goes black. It's as if the story never happened.

Goatee

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"I'm in a wrestling movie!" you shouted.

This Story

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This story is falling head-first into a mud-puddle.

Application for Position as Failure

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Dear Sir/ Madam I wish to apply for the position you advertised in the Daily Sun. Although my expertise is in self-obliteration and self-worth (or lack of), and my work mainly in disappointment, I do have much experience in failure, which this letter will…

the true bliss of objects is entropy

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What the tumbler meant

Awakening

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I was awakened by a disturbing dream. He was no longer with me and I felt afraid. Everything was cloudy, almost blurry. I couldn't see much in front of me, but I knew for sure he wasn't there with me. Then he said the words I feared the most “I don't love you.…