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". . those incandescent secrets she would
pepper in. The sister who ran away."
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I was tired and lonesome when I checked into another insufferable, shop-worn Holiday Inn. It was the only motel around with the internet — dial up only — in that little jerkwater town, Notmuch, Alabama. It was too late for a nap, so I jumped in the shower,…
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All else is unmoved/
and relentless in its indifference.
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i dream a thousand interconnected pictures. i dream the future. i dream we are together. i dream i love you. i dream i am forgiven. i dream you care. i dream nice dreams. i go to the bank. i deposit my check. i pay the rent. i pet the cat. i…
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My wife says you can tell the crooks from the cops from the cowboys at the taco truck across the street.
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The first days of October are ordinary in the way that milk just hours away from spoiling is ordinary milk. You can baptise your cornflakes with it, but part of you knows the whole thing is just shy of almost right.
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This is me pitching a recently completed screenplay to a film producer at lunch the other day:
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It's been twenty years since you left. I should call it a day.Even the Obeah woman said as much. But I don't listen. Instead I sit with old and proper ethnic widows in black, waiting for your return. One of them translates my story for the…
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“I have a theory,” she said on their first date, which was at an Indian restaurant where the music was a lovely singsong but the chef seemed enraged as he clapped a ball of dough between his hands, then threw it into the flames. And her date, whom she…
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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.
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Grady Quail wondered why God didn't just have another son
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I climb up on the sofa and stand next to him. I smell something.
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The old man is dead,
body propped in its cart
like the dead El Cid
strapped on his horse by Jimena
to save Valencia,
and yet...
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heart-shaped stones
love, devotion
no way
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Lorelei was bombarded constantly with it. She began to hate the city...
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I lift up my sweatshirt and reach with a full fist into my belly button. This is where the fat comes out.
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You gather their faces in the palms of your hands and their purple eyes blink, blink, unseeing.
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And soon you'll be walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
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You borrow words from platforms you could never build
Borrow morals from a party gone sour
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The brain taints everything it brings to us/
with its limited apparatus, its precepts,//
all the things it thinks it knows.
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Elaine and Francesco exited the taxi in front of Elaine Aster Gallery.
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When I rolled him under the bed, I thought I would sweep him out later with arms curled up like legs beneath the shells of cicadas I used to gather from the laundry porch and set on the kitchen counter to scare my roommates. At least, I did that until…
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Fear the air and fear the fire./
Fear the land and fear the water./
Creation is out to get you, speck,
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I woke up pissed off—like that feeling you get when you take a long nap in the afternoon. Except instead of being on a couch or a bed, I was trapped in a mashed-up Honda on I-75.
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As the jughead turned with a humph the old man muttered, "what a jerk." The jughead spun around and glared at the young black man and said, "Did you say that?" The old man laughed, raised his hand, looked up at the jughead and said, "I did." The jughead t
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Accidental suicide, though. Why, that could happen to anyone.
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