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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
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When I cook sausages, I am afraid I will not let them sit in the pan long enough, and they will be pink inside. Then, even if the pigs have been handled humanely, I and the person for whom I've prepared this meal will be at risk for some terrible stomach poisoning.Let's say…
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—Frank, how is your sex life?
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The questions we ask ourselves define who we are as a culture. “What is the meaning of life?” “Is there a God?” “Does anybody really know what time it is?” “Where the hell did I put my car keys?” To see what…
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For you have waited. And waited and waited. And soon your slice of bread will be ready.
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"Shit," said the Charge Nurse. "Not again."
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I want to ask him why not now, right here on the living room floor when Rosie is out for the day. Instead, I suggest Sunday afternoon. I can make grilled cheese sandwiches and we'll eat them on the veranda. I'll take off my tennis skirt and unbutton my...
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The next week, she sends a small white box in the mail / with tissue paper, a ceramic mold the color of bleached bone—
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Her funeral was scheduled for the following Monday, and of course Claudia would attend. Trouble was, Monday was a workday for my parents. So when neither Mother nor Claudia could find somebody else on short notice to keep me, it was decided that I would a
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it felt fucking awesome at that moment, in that way only little things can feel huge and life affirming
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What was so bad about other religions that their followers were automatically condemned to eternal damnation? The priests were so convincing when they claimed Christ was the only true way.
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The rocket shone in the distance. Cape Canaveral had never looked so pretty.
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“There’s no real freedom in this world. But a car and the open road is close enough for government work.”
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Trigger warning: casualties of war.
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“Sixty-seven responses!” Al Edelstein announces at the first meeting of the search committee. It has been just two weeks since Rabbi Feldman dropped dead of a heart attack and just a week since the congregation ran the ad: “Help Wanted: Orthodox Rabbi. Im
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There was a certain romanticism in it, the salty old man sidling up to me at a bar, rhapsodizing in a slurred stream of conscious about the state of the world, the country, the state of his own heart. He didn't have an eye patch nor beard, nor was he…
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I bit her ear and /
it was burnt toast
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Mrs. L. was sitting on a love seat in her nightgown. She was sitting in a man’s lap....
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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I enjoy launching words into space. Please dangle a moment here while I prepare the next sentence. Ok. You can come in now. Take boiling for instance. And hawsers. The sound of words on a sheet of paper. The manifesto for a roll of sleep. Sleep is oblivious to…
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unwrapping
the gauze from her wrists....
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The Mojave Desert remembers Ron Paul
With tattered billboards
Scraped and clawed by vehement dust
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We cannot love the past...
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[WARNING: DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 'R XMAS!]
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It’s last call for the Class of 2001, their five-year reunion drawing to a close, and Brenner, in his standard t-shirt and holey jeans, has just arrived.
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The moon hung in the sky, round and pale, under cover of some wispy clouds.
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