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Five Million Yen: Chapter 53

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I am beleaguered by duplicity.

Paradise

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The oval-shaped, pearl-white objects shimmered soundlessly in the warm sunlight. Suddenly one object veered off and headed towards them stopping to hover not twenty feet away. Suddenly their phones vibrated simultaneously. They both looked at their messa

Love and Cigarettes

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She's waiting there, for you, in bed but the analgesic cigarette calms your mind more than her heat. She's there waiting, in your bed, eyes closed, fluttering, somewhere between the dream and practical world.

Novelas (interstice from Black Swans)

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Insterstice: Novelas Four Sonnets Since …

Leaky Guts

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One day, Dasha confessed to Igor that she had an incurable illness: Purple emptiness.

Fourth Time’s a Charm

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We wait for a server to bring our coconut cream pie. His favorite. I hate coconut.

Finite

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This was not a good sign, comforting gestures from strangers were bad omens.

Omens

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The rain falls soft after a hard weekend.

On news of your demise

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The news just now that you are dead

Walking To Gibraltar, Chapter 2: In Which Spousal Abuse May Occur

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The separation—the plan—had been a long time coming. After years of fighting and therapy and apologizing and, finally, silence, their marriage was about to die of exhaustion.

Chresmographion

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Meeting the past an inevitable outcome (this inside a future fortune cookie). Shame pierces her like a sudden migraine.

Waist Deep in Tissue Packs

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It didn't matter if they burned or not.

The Red Suitcase: Part 1

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He had become an accessory to a murder.

The Car

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Metafictionaut

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I'm available most weekends.

Johnny Bruzzone: Pool Hustler

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I was a coward and didn’t want to get killed like Heimley. Heimley was a nut at high school. I saw him myself one night put his hand right through the windshield of this car he was working on, along with a monkey wrench. Sure, he was drunk, but th

My Coyote

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I say her- it might be him-/ but from a distance I supply the details I prefer.

Three-toed Sloth Love

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Couldn’t we just do a quick ie

Digging Pablo

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They’re exhuming Pablo Neruda To put his old bones to the test Determine if he was murdered At the Capitalists’ request.

***Breaking News!***

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FedEx merges with UPS becoming FedUp

Scottish Independence

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with peaty aromatics, opened,/ and a welcomed sting, swallowed,

21st Century Living

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there should be a word for it.

LEAVES

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...black birds fall from trees...

Best Laid Plans

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My obituary wasn't in the morning paper, so I headed to Target.

Bendable

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“You're bendable,” he said, and then there was this silence as we looked into the space in front of us. I understood what he meant right off and thought it a gift to speak to someone that did not get the words exactly right, but in not doing so, got…

Addicts

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Popular wisdom would have it that heroin addicts are some kind of cross between vampire menace and low-rent cartoon.

lucy, the ghost who liked it

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lucy had simply taken a kitchen knife and removed the outer layer, the layer of things people notice

The Band Name Is The Concert

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We now bring to the stage ....

Renewal

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At first he thought it was a cat she was holding, swathed in a white, fleece blanket

If Ted Hughes Rewrote Shakespeare

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The Phoenix Asks the Turtle-Dove if He Can Get a Drop of Water: After Shakespeare — In the style of Ted Hughes Let the bugling bird come up that burst a big loud lay, On the solitary tree of old Arabia (sound its thunder!):…