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He's driving in the Sierra Nevada with his wife and their small daughters and the girls are fighting and he can't take much more of it.
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149140
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As part of an online writers ”interview” series, I decided to deviate a little from the norm and do my first interview with our housecat, while I await my first ever conversation with an actual human.
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149121
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Lucy shrugs into the corner of the train's seat. She envelopes her IPod in both hands as if she's praying or holding a conch shell: safe, secure like when she visited a Morcombe beach in the school holidays. The only giveaway's the white headphone cord.
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149122
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I have reasons to believe she’s been stealing.“
“Stealing what?”
“Steaks.”
“Steaks?”
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149184
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When the hay was ripe it stirred and rippled like water.
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149187
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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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1491120
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Jody wakes some days with pieces missing.
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1490108
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In a dream, he’s covered in masticated bits of paint and canvas and metal shavings and it keeps raining down until he’s buried and he wakes up with a yell.
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149085
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Both men sip their Cabernet Franc.
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149064
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Her thirteen year old daughter had hung herself in the hallway closet of the old house. Now the closet was empty and unused. The door was locked.
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149055
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149083
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First of all, there was no snow. I seem to remember that. And there was no Christmas tree in the house.
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149041
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Motionless seconds turned
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149063
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It is not unusual to see Göttwigg with his shirt on inside out.
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149010
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Now Ninalee gets up from the table. She starts to put some snacks in a bag for Janny and Benjie, and some storybooks in there too, to read to them in the park: books about trains, mostly, and there’s one with a bus and one with a car...
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1490117
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... his skin glistened
like a sharp blade
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149054
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Many hours to make a brick: many bricks to make a curve.
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14901613
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Our beautiful currencies and stamps/
disappear into the digital vortex/
of accelerated appetites.
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149022
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“Why is there a gigantic sex toy sitting on your dining room table?” Mark asked recently. “That's not a gigantic sex toy,” I said. “It's a Wahl Hot & Cold Therapy Massager.”“Which is?” “An Advanced Pain…
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One sneaker in the middle of the A-Plus Pawn lot...
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148952
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I am not covetous for catnip,
Nor care where I sleep at night.
It irks me not who takes my
Favorite chair, or swats me off a table.
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148900
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Alysia and Megumi made their magic circles, but they stopped short when they saw a young man at the end of the street. Their eyes trembled and their feet moved them back without thought.
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148961
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Fucking buffalo, the curse of the writer.
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148932
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They watched the seven o'clock news.
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148963
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SapphicsSlumber comes too late to scare awakening; I know, before, there was a life to bind me. I cross the streets instead and watch the rainfall Murmur without ears. It can know no sound but seems…
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148912
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The world is always changing, even if it's in several eras at once.
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148953
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—Jesus, a snoring cat. No wonder Alex put this cat outside.
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148832
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To him the younger women, contemporaries of the bride, all sounded as if they were breathing helium.
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1488138
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If opposites attract, that might explain it, Doreen and I. Conjugally blissed through thick and thin. Forty some odd years. Since June of sixty five.
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