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From Berlin to Arcturus. I squeeze Sevigny’s wrist, wish Izzy could be here, but she’s melting salt in Utah. We were on our way to Los Angeles. I’ve booked the horror room.
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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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The supervisor, sensing the fear in me, pats my hand and says "Never you mind! This is normal in the tomato. Every few days we rile up, make sauce, and regrow again. Have you ever been in spaghetti sauce before?"
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The man wore a bowler hat and stood on an open patch of grass, with a pyramid-shaped stack of baseballs at his feet.
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Six months later, she was teaching theology / to refugees from est.
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The leaves were meaningless because they were no longer connected to the trees.
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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Its intelligence won’t be/
diminished when you take/
a bone saw to its cranium
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The songs that she used to sing to him still dance in his head while he wrangles equations. The stars in the cosmos spell out her name.
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We cannot love the past...
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The tech turns off the music. The capsule blares. I am in Jurassic Park with Sam Neill. I am Timmy, descending the electrified fence, almost toast. I am Karen Silkwood, a deer in the headlights, then showering off plutonium. A garbage truck is compacting
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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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Write power
like a purring kitten
eyes wide
without an idea of exactly
how small he is.
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I turned a maiden to a witch / and back again
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Things don't always go to plan. Gem knew what people would have said back then, of course. She wasn't stupid.
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He came to a spot on the edge of the strawberry fields where he liked to sit with his brother and watch the turkey buzzards circle overhead
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There is no cement stronger than the one holding a miserable couple together.
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we name invasive species,
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The flash of love was real, the life within her was real, and the main thing now was to climb.
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Roy Carver owned a big tire retreading outfit over on the Mississippi.
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Can you see the rut? Can you dig your fingers into the flesh?
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There's a large tunnel that runs under my house. I can only estimate but it's not deep below the ground and that's what worries me.
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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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She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?
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I can't take it bird by bird because I have neither.
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They found it naught however as it was lost at metro stops, canceled appointments and in ever dimming light that failed to reflect what was instead of what could have been.
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I loved without marriage and the men loved without divorce and we loved a twenty-four-year-old eating and how gracious she shone over a tame bottle of beer.
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It is a hot August night — the same kind you remember from that summer after high school graduation. A cool breeze blows in off the ocean, sweeping across the boardwalk just hard enough to dry the …
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Street by street, non-combatants ran away. Each one passed by the Society and law enforcement screaming.
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