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They were discussing reincarnation,
what animals they would come back as.
"I'd be a vole," Cranshaw said. Is a vole
even an animal? Connie asked.
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you tell
a stranger's story...
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142700
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I was sleeping in a pile of teenage bodies soft limb spread over soft thin limb.
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Life to her had come to resemble one of those mazes you find in a puzzle book, inscrutable except by those with exceptional IQs. Mary would run her pencil down one path in search of the passage that might penetrate to the exit, then another, but the paths
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"...she's been seeming like she's been dreaming while awake lately..."
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another lonely drone holding still
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This story is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental and unintentional and should not be inferred. (Really!)
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You’ve got me standin’ on my knees,
A’searchin’ for a beggar’s alms,
From folks who’re deaf to all my pleas
And blind to open palms.
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We’ve already agreed on a date when Jack posts some new pictures of himself. I have to swallow. Hard. In four days Jack’s become twenty years older!
On Thursday, a boyish thirty-something was smiling at me from my PC. This Monday I find myself stari
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Will he do it with a gun? If it’s a gun, will it be a short one, shaved so he can hold it against his head. Will it look like the photograph he showed me, black and brown. I told him he couldn’t possibly buy something like that from a Walmart.
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The leaves/
seek reunion with the ground//
and leave the oak tree naked/
in December’s cold.
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Bree was mean as a bag of snakes and had done laid out most of the eligible bachelors in Culloden County at one time or another to the tune that at this point no man who’d heard of her wanted much truck with her.
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There were too many laws but not enough of the kinds she wanted. She wished for the right to go shopping. Then taste rather than disposable income or access to finance could distinguish people.
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...bush tail beside him his closest comfort next to the genes...
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The summer I turned fourteen I had a job babysitting our neighbor, Pam's three year old daughter, Annie, three nights a week while Pam was going to Junior College, but it was hardly work because, after I tucked Annie in to sleep, I just watched TV, sitting in Pam's den…
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She loves you when your words leave her dirty, semi-transparent, at times, overexposed.
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His eyes are closed yet restless, as if too many thoughts loop beneath the lids.
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I would advise the younger you to change your underpants, and not to let those boys do the talking for you.
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You think there’s a chance the bag could be holding a severed head, or live or dead kittens.
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I somehow ended up with my father's second wife's wedding ring. Although it could actually be his third wife's wedding ring.
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“Is that an erect annual plant in your codpiece, Mr. Flax, or are you just glad to see me?”
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Feeding you a taste of croissant
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Sunlight and the small wind/
swallow the frost/
on rooftops and windshields
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I came to a field where, scattered around, were quite a few men digging holes
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"If you don't like it then leave!" Sally screamed.
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Not today. Even when the Isar rolls so cool and deep and I could wade and wade 'til sleep. Not today. When I have the tablets in a drawer in a box winking chalkily at me. Not today. When the church tower soars and it's bells toll out a seductive beat …
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Under a conspiratorial moon… the shovel my silent partner… organ-less torso to the worms.
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It's a haiku. It's its own snippet.
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I was born at the age of 42.
Some of you might regard that as a handicap, but at the time I assumed everyone was born fully grown in a corporate test kitchen. In fact, I still think of it as an advantage; like being born with a silver spoon in my hand.
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They waited not a moment longer than was necessary But moved right in and
Began their loathsome ch
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