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A Strategy to Overcome Rejection

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“If your work is good you will get published. Just keep at it."

11am, Sunday, in Green

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The eyelid of the sink blinks silence. The clocks choke on smoke.

Begonia {part ten}

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You may be wondering, as is only natural, about the designated husband of our dear Princess.

Loose Ends

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He looked peaceful.

Going Back in Time: Song

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If we go back in time We are living in tents If we go back in time We are living in caves We are fighting over rivers We are fighting over fields Near the soft edges of slime If we go back in time Nothing would have us And we had t

1962, What I wanted

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1962, What I wanted was a Levittowner rancher like my best friend had,

Dangerous Questions

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Shirley stubbed her cigarillo out on a dead chunk of honeycomb.

Bad Monkey

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The hotel sits on the highest point in Shimla: a place of cedar-scented air, an aggressive monkey population, and summer houses left by the British Raj.

Searching for the Word

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I separate my thoughts into two / camps

Acapella

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Its odors of quicklime/ and pyre-smoke will curl/ commingled in acrid air.

On Making Love

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He did many things for love: Once he placed his tongue in his boyfriend’s nostril during sex, because he seemed to have read in the internet that this was a “thing” among the younger of their social class...

The Family of Unsharpened Pencils

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and pressed an area on my forehead between my eyes

Speck in the Thrall of Cosmic Forces

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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,

benedictus

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he wanders the house/ crying for the hairless tomcat/ (gone for the night/ on an overnight job).

Afternoon Chores

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She is trying to quit—nasty habit this smoking. Still, this is the only time she lets herself smoke these days: Laundry day.

Keeping watch

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The machines are alive but she is not. The pads keep her face from being irritated but my mind isn't so lucky."Let me GO!" she cries....at least that's what I hear. They are waiting for permission for her to go. Eager hesitation best describes the tense…

mermaid tale

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your words that came crashing over me/ so cold the clear shock was like salt water

Heron

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. . . nor did mine eye apologize.

The Writer and the Talker

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"I’ve always wanted to write a novel. Like Catch-22, something off-beat that would start by word-of-mouth, you know, and become an underground classic."

Homunculus

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Tiny was my daughter. Or what was left of her. A mucous-y chunk of what was once in my womb and then wasn’t.

"We Are the Last Minority" Say Surrealist Poets

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"My sister's parrot admires your armpit," X-Lautrec says. "Would you be so kind as to nail an avocado seed to a cup of black coffee?"

Balm (excerpt)

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my second language / to silence / plainsong of / the breast

Writing Prompt 5086992075

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Set your three-word story in prison.

The Lobbyist

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I looked down at Earth and imagined this porn star who’d asked for my help.

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 30

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Anatoly Gringovitch took a swallow of beer, thoughtfully put the cap on his Ferrari da Varese custom fountain pen, and launched into his story:

Why We're Going to Eat Uncle John's Suicide for Breakfast, Tomorrow

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[Party!]

Privacy

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Spying is a different concern. Privacy also. I feel there is a loss of privacy just in believing or realizing it is possible; our forebears did not experience loss of privacy digitally, perhaps in another way.

driving

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gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour and just getting under way

Story by Committee

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The past has no flavor.

The Man That Wasn't Hers

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"I am lying on my back and am confused."