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The Song of Jerome

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"My love is with eggs!"

Twelve Pens

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Their last story

Decision Mountain

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For decades the land the village sat on had switched its allegiance between two countries.

Neediness, Incarnate

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7 — IT'S HARD TO HAVE FRIENDS WHEN YOU'VE NEVER HAD ANY AND ARE STILL FUCKING WHINING ABOUT IT — Once he learned he didn't “bring anything to the table,” Worthless Veikass hit on the notion of [...]

The Exhaustion of Dreams

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I like it best when I wake up And the wild rain of dreaming ends.

Night Flight

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He didn’t even have the energy to tell me to tie her up when he got home.

Lost Keys

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The most unoriginal, trite and hackneyed story ever written!

Joe's Sniff Shack

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Joe's, always smelling of cherry chapstick or the breeze that comes up from subway grates, used to service some of the finest dupes in town.

Apathy.

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I'm not sure whetherI drink to numbthe pain or toactually feelsomething.

Inversions of Pound: Canto I

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these tender girls tears recent / with stained souls, brides of dead, / cadaverous Erebus; unguarded ladder / long the down going…came Anticlea then

fealty

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just before my break,/ he came on the line,/ old and slow with computers now/ but wanting a discount/ he'd been told he qualified for.

Fifteen

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“We could dooble date,” he said.

The Gift

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This was the anniversary of the chairs. He would celebrate tonight for the chairs, and the chairs would welcome him.

Shoot the Moon

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Neither of us thought of real winning. We set about brilliant losing, dark angel forms of luck and greed, the desire, the craving, the need to lose so strenuous that one wins; we tied at thirteen.

Eternal Return

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When I slip through the seams I return to the same place.

Small Ghosts

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the mother tells her child the flashes at the horizonare fireworks, not bombs, so he will not be afraid.at night he curls by the door or else he follows her to a different place. he is quiet, then. as if he knows the secret challenge.better if he and all the others…

Sick Day

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Marcy was not herself today, her mother said when the school called. She was under the weather and she could not play with the other children. Marcy's mother began to suspect that her daughter was not herself very early on that day. Walking up the stairs Dolores…

Honey Gold

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your light is gonna last me through the week

The Cherry

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He then spent his walk home to his single apartment spitting up various textures of red, combinations of cherry and blood mostly.

Chair and Umbrella, $25

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If white t-shirts are only an SPF of 8, she couldn’t even imagine what a white nylon-mesh umbrella on this godforsaken beach might be in terms of protection.

Linear A

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let’s press our words into the clay/ in language so completely dead/ we have to re-imagine it.

Another Ending

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you tell a stranger's story...

Divers

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and, once in a rare while,/ actual pearls.

And so, like a kind of molting

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So for now, let the snow fall, but let it fall gently, each flake as a soft piano note

Another Way

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If there was another way to describe emptiness, I'd word the endlessness of the sky, of the ocean at low tide.

One Kiss

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"It was one kiss. No tongue. What does that even mean?" Lindley tried to see Leah as any other patient, "What do you want it to mean?" "I don't know," Leah whined, tears welling, "something, maybe. You know I hate surprises." Her sister was not another…

Five Million Yen: Chapter 56

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—Can you handle a threesome? said Isabella.

Deer People

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There was no provision for keeping the post on the door, but I did not have the fingernails to pry it off.

Troy

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It’s layer VII we adore/ and mourn

Barrier Island

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At the beach house