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The sea is transparent rubber, and peering down into it I recognize the shiny fish in suspended animation, their partially exploded bodies obscured by their own blood.
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But now she was no longer the little girl.
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Me: In my orange hazmat, the one that makes my eyes look intensely blue.Him: His flexi-human-hamster ball. Fun, but a bit informal for a first date, I think.We're outside because doorways are not easy for him. After some impromptu rounds of bumper balls on the square, he…
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Not long ago, Owen the Second showed her a skull. He kept it in a brown cardboard box in the top of the closet. "My first wife," he said, and sneered, his lip bunching up around a scar just under his nose.
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Larry works the concession stand / near the pier.
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Usually I’m the only guy in a roomful of women. Some of them are foxy, too.
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Beautiful boy! I am doomed / to have attended your presence; / time consumes us, but you / have changed so little...
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The stick had a head and a face and a swirling robe, all etched in wood.
It was the 14th Dalai Lama.
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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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"Dennis," she started "exactly what the fuck are you looking at?"
"Your tits" I replied.
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Except where its waves break gently,/
white frothed and reassuring along the shore,
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How many shadows in your soul? Close your eyes, my love, let me / make you blind as the wings of a drenched, drowned bee.
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"Well if we break for lunch at the same time wanna sit with me? I got fruit roll-ups I'll share."
Cory looked up at the boy, removing her hand from the water only to brush a lock of dark hair from her eyes. He was still smirking, jaw crunching, saliva
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vampires seem not to be victims of drought . . .
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Dreams / of being a millionaire are replaced by dreams / of being a billionaire
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He reacted as if I had sprinkled holy water upon his furnaces.
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She is laughing, watching me spit out a mouthful of seaweed. It's a soft kind of laugh: small gasps between small sounds of her eyes closed, curling with the corners of her mouth. Her left eye curls a little less, closes a little more than it did when she laughed a year…
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It was a strange mood, unfamiliar, not one of her usual “I'm busy wrestling with my personal demons” type of moods. She'd been steeped in it all day and I, like a shipwrecked victim reaching out for any piece of flotsam…
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Slipshod shoes were the first sign of a meltdown. Sometimes she could see it coming. A prickly gentleman washing his clothes on a Thursday afternoon. One week he’s fine. Nothing wrong with owning a sour face. The next Thursday, his shoes don’t match.
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Sitting at an outside table at the Bassett Café
on West Broadway, I remember, in the background
always the Twin Towers behind me
in the photographs from that time
And the sparrows in New York, bolder than anywhere
working over the scrap
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When Frank entered Michiko’s apartment, Michiko was not there.
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I didn’t see the little boy run up to Bandit until it was too late. The kid was about four and was excited to see such a big dog. He reached out his hand to pat Bandit’s head and Bandit lunged at him. The leash was wrenched from my hand, leaving a bloody
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"Check out these dudes,” he says. “They're all wearing kilts. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as long as they're wearing underwear.
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He lit my cigarette even though he didn't want me to smoke. Buying me drinks all night, he didn't complain, but he thought I drank too much.
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You may be wondering, as is only natural, about the designated husband of our dear Princess.
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Welcome to OTHERS. A place where I hope you will experience the enchantment of a time and place like no other
MATTITUCK 1971
LIKE YOU NEVER KNEW IT
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If this is trouble, please call someone else.
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On a street-lit night in Jeddah.
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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There was something wrong with this picture. Was he the man she had slept with last night?
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