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Charles the Bold Signs His Name

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Charles the Bold is holding a pen.

Zorro

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Zorro lived in his mother’s basement until he could get back on his feet.

Parts

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Trigger warning: casualties of war.

Elise Imagines Herself Behind Flowers: 1938

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In your mouth is the attic studio Where your father’s brushes lie wet with water

Honesty

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Bill decided he hated his neighbors on a Sunday morning in June.

yapping and laughing and living

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I can't take it bird by bird because I have neither.

Strained

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She wonders if he will do the dishes. He said that he would, but that doesn’t mean anything. He said he would do them last week, said he would save money, said he would come home last night. He didn’t do any of those things, either.

Honeymoon Bike Ride

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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.

Dawn

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Fat robins are chirping – loudly – at 4 a.m. They’re trying to delude the worms into thinking it’s dawn already The worms get up underground They’re grumpy, they bump into things They come up to the surface and Wham! That

Zimmerland

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He was just walking along, making sure that no white, Hispanic, Native American or Asian people were doing anything illegal when he noticed the young black man walking down the street. He hadn't meant to.

Goatee

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

Ballpoint Sketches for Banana Peel Poems

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I wanna make banana peel poems-- slippery little booby traps

A World of Hurt

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Cat fight. I rush outside and swinging my trusty broom I charge the rolling yowling ball of black fur.

Hara-kiri

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unwrapping the gauze from her wrists....

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.

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 37

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—Frank, how is your sex life?

Tractors

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Beneath their feet bedrock stretched a hundred miles

The Search

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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

When Hadrons Collide

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When hadrons collide they’re not always Swiss. They may be cheese or neutral but that isn’t of my concern. Look at them, touch them, feel them, the quirks of the antiquarks, masonic mesons, baron baryon.

fake letters in reply

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I did do one nice thing for you

A Record Setting Year

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it felt fucking awesome at that moment, in that way only little things can feel huge and life affirming

Subsistence Culture

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Defy the impulse to grow beyond/ your means and the means of the/ place where you lie at night.

This Story

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

Ode To The Lord's Heavenly Men

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Women have to suffer

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

The Lost Place

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. . . laughter and madness.

The Mojave Desert Remembers Ron Paul

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The Mojave Desert remembers Ron Paul With tattered billboards Scraped and clawed by vehement dust

Mumbles

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We bobbed and weaved using our words like the sniffs of two unfamiliar dogs in a Wal-mart parking lot. Wary, but sensing we could be more than just polite neighbors, once we got past the normal darkness of strangers. There was no plot to our story yet, but we both seemed to…

Kanha's Dream

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"Look at the grime on those curtains. Not fit for an Emperor. Pull them down. Put up fresh new ones. Not a spot." "Oh! Look at this throne. All uneven legs. The gems are not shining. The gold looks dull. Fix it, fix it, fix it!"

Hyde Confronts Jekyll’s Position on a Current Affair

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I would fly drones with hydrochloric acid sprays/ over their squadrons and watch the disfigurement/ begin. I love disfigurement...