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Wounds

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Every day, a fresh new/ strain of Hell reveals itself

Fifteen

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“We could dooble date,” he said.

Remedy

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the last, best// analgesic--/ guaranteed

Imminent Weather, Five AM

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The spectacle of weather/ on the prairies approaches.

Books

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'Like poems,’ I said she paused and nodded her black mop.

Bunker

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Dressed as an English professor on Halloween I escape the red devil and run downtown. I go to the Art Car hangar I dance, I swing my golden brown briefcase

M. Nerveux Chronicles: Toad Suffers a Bad Business

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Herr Toad smokin'

MOTHER MOUSE AND HER BRATS

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Oh, you aren't going to lecture us, for heaven's sake?

The Tourists

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He thought of his field trip from the previous year, of Prague’s museums, statues, squares, architecture, restaurants, and various modes of transport. The town offered none of these and surely no cinema, no crowds of people, not even an old church.

Mon in the forest: a fragment

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Mon wakes up surrounded by trees. The light is grey, the trunks black.How long have I slept? he wonders.He doesn't know which way to walk. In every direction, the same prospect of trees. He looks up at a blank sky. No sign even of the sun.***He starts walking. Slowly,…

For my lost child

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and where have the years sped how distant was your youth

Twelve Pens

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Their last story

PAPA'S TEARS

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Darkness was fast approaching. I stuck out my tongue at Naya, and she reached out as if to grab…

Citadel

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Last night we slept with books in the bed.

55 words #5

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"...,beautiful, yet neutral, an oversimplistic reading of the people we meet."

April, Thirteen

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There is a roofer straddling part of our house, pushing shingles off of our roof with the edge of a shovel. …. I've thought seriously, at times, about becoming a nurse. Seeing your mother in a hospital bed, hooked up to a tube, more than one, too…

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 7

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Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.

Dead to Rights

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He draped the sheet over her body. Blood spotted the fabric, rose petals on snow.He left the pistol, but pocketed the first edition she'd signed. Part of his fee.In the park, he ditched the glasses, fake mustache, and anorak before making the call.The publisher called an…

In Brief

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I can admire Falling Water and find Mr. Wright a complete shit.

Freedom

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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.

Aftermath

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Oh sweet, sweet morning light

Threshold

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He wasn't sure if I was joking.

Carnival Beach

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Galloping people, tangled in ballets of hot love, weaving in and out, making a canvas of it.

Releasing Your Inner Bigfoot

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In the ’70′s, Bigfoot was romantically linked with Farrah Fawcett, spotted in an Arkansas 7-11 with Elvis, and tabbed the front-runner to be Secretary of the Interior had Gerald Ford defeated Jimmy Carter.

Looking for Comments

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So do you read my writing?I text youI need to know whatyou like betterThe bloodor the gutsThat's what it is.You see Iput it out therefor you.That's not what it saysbut I know the truth.Am I smart enoughgood enoughdo you think it's crapbecause anyone can like it…

Vesper

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. . . how a body calls in the dark. . .

Before I Die

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...to know they are not alone

The Girl I Danced With Is Now A Man

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You can't always be everything you were expected to be

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

The Song of Jerome

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"My love is with eggs!"