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Oh Captain, Good Captain: Part I

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I once knew a sailor...

Desert

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Tonight’s concert was called Desert.

Cherry Almond Streusel Cake

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Tomorrow we will eat it in anger.

The Cheerleader

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He sat behind her in Honors English, each day studying everything about her.......

Five Million Yen: Chapter 20

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They are sea scallops wrapped in bacon, grilled with butter and lemon and plated in heavy seasoned cream sauce and served with apricot chutney.

Turning Heads

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Crows cawed, kvetched.

No Alternative

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Edward Ogle the Andy

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Concrete coffeecake drumbeat gyrate Andy Rooney ran a meter.

Things an Old Person Would Say

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Obituaries aren’t as much fun as they used to be.

Chicago

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For some reason in my daydream he would use the formal “ma'am” to approach me, despite the fact that we were in a swarm of sweaty grunting men in the basement that smelled like feral animal feces and jock straps.

SHADOW TREASURES

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Vikki respond, "Say big guy, you eat pussy?" The Mohawk flustered. "Uh!?...Yeah...sure." Vikki snickered, "Great. We got something in common. So do I."

Blades of Grass

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What are the odds of August rain in Texas?

Anniversary

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We continue,/Held beyond all surface Liking it still/And each other/Often surprised:/Like finding garden flowers/No one planted/In summer bloom

The Thing on Marlow Street

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After all, if she could get through World War II with no more than a couple of letters and numbers on her arm, she could, sure as hell, get through this.

Inconvenient Weather

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With the sudden thrust// of April green, we can forget/ our drought continues.

Flower Power

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"Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels."--William Carlos WilliamsThere is something beautiful I want to say to you that doesn't seem to make much more sense in a box of clever words like this one. It feels closer to…

What We Talk About When We Talk About Photosynthesis

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Minimalist/realist short-story writer Raymond Carver was fired from his job as an editor of science textbooks because of his inappropriate writing style.

Urban Skunks

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Urban skunks want to visit your neighborhood and be bold in your neighborhood.

Let’s Swing

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You don’t want to tango with me, she said.

Coyote Captured Outside Lower Manhattan Café

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I heard the patron yelling, “Hey, man! That’s my cappuccino!” when the young female snatched it and got away. But the police cornered her a few blocks away, licking the last bits of foam off her wiley whiskers. That’s how they knew they had

Buffalo Bill and the Giant Eyeball

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Words reach out of my mind for paradise. And come back with rocks.

A Memo From The CEO

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Over the last 30 days we have seen a radical decrease in our revenue stream. Our Q3 earnings fell dramatically short of what we had projected, and as a result the leadership team has had to look at some difficult cost-reducing measures.

Rope & Bone

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Speaking in tongues untranslatable, they move in experimental spacesuits, uneasy in the other's gravity. (To say nothing of the difficulty of dancing.)

nerd

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We are nerds. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us bitch.

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 20

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Elaine Aster paced her office trailing a cloud of smoke of cigarette smoke.

Crimson and Clover

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The world follows me everywhere. I can’t get rid of it. I’m being stalked by a planet.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 36

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Ben panicked momentarily. Which passport?

April

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Well, hello hunger: what a sweet surprise.

A Noir Celebration

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A kind of sucking darkness into A kind of noir celebration of despair

Initial doubts

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"Well, you certainly can't be marrying him then .. "