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Matilda went wild at sixty-five. Legs left unshaven for the first time in fifty years, hair still and proud, knotted with forgetting. She’d roam the streets at night, a traveler without design. Matilda was a gardener of sorts, digging up all previous assu
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Larry's next book, A Fly in My Ointment, is due out this summer
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my exposed
flu-ridden head
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Dear Erin,And people call ME a pussy. Fuck you,The Cunt
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This is the only time she feels she can be herself.
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As soon as she left, I sat down at the computer. Booted up. Read my e-mail, then looked at pictures of bare-naked ladies.
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It's a lie, it doesnt mean anything this, only that my lips are ripe and soft.
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I’ll bring the naproxen sodium so we won’t have any problem grabbing things.
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That I own one of the world's largest collections of occult references, including a clutch of rare and ancient grimoires, ought to suggest I'd have been prepared for the shock. But nothing in my studies left me meaningfully prepared. . .
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Staring at her horribly disfigured face, I envied her.
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Simon Ridley only had one special power. Whenever he walked into a room, an awkward silence would descend.
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We borrow a flag from a neighbor. It’s sitting on top of the TV in the den. We haven’t figured out where to display it yet.
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It’s about 4:30 when the phone rings. I look at the display and see it’s home.
“Hey,” I say picking up.
“I hate you,” says Jules.
“I hate, you, too,” I say. My co-workers don’t even blink. They’ve heard this before.
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“I’m surprised you haven’t fucked yourself to death, too,” he added, “given your record.”
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He sits on a folded-over cardboard box, slightly off-balance and without any visible sign of support other than the granite wall of the bank behind him and the few coins in the paper cup he shakes at each passerby.
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Lined up like ghosts on the front lawn, the second-hand porcelain fixtures had embarrassed her.
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The handler found Topsy as docile as a woman being fitted for a shoe. Each time he tapped his cane against her ankle, she lifted her foot and held the pose, allowing him to dip his sponge into a bucket and pull it wet across the thick ridges of her skin. It was…
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I never looked at her face.
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A response to Darryl Price's "Hello Is All There Is".
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The young boy picks up a coin that has rolled to his feet. It is warm, too warm considering the cold air streaming around him.
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Come home, my love, and live.
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... a moth,
a kiss. A silence.
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We watched kids tweeze snapping turtles out of the park grass. They dropped them into a styrophoam cup and called it the snap turtle home. When they grow up they will bite your arms off, their father said laughing.
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I arrived at Yaddo, the prestigious artists’ retreat, in the summer of 1941. With America’s “day that will live in infamy” several months away, my own day of infamy began the second morning of my residency.
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Yet it was another thing to grow to become indispensable to someone without whose infirmities the helper could not exist. People in general had started to call that helpless requiring “codependency,” but to Althea that word did no good,
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I think they've always been together, talking amongst themselves about whatever is happening around them. A part of me wishes they'd walk into the cave and disturb whatever is burning it from the inside out.
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"There's a guy and he's standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon."
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How much more attuned he was when surrounded by forest, consigning meaning to each tiny sound.
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I am complicit in the darkness
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Shakespeare was Shakespeare, after all, the greatest poet the language has ever boasted: why did Shakespeare’s contemporaries even bother with their paltry efforts?
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