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"From up here the city lights burn like a thousand miles of fire," he croaked, his voice scratchy from sobbing. In pinpoints of illumination he imagined his wife - *former* wife - Calli in that Mustang convertible he'd gotten her for a birthday surprise
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A supermodel, carrying a large Valentine’s box, fell on the ice.
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when unicorns took to flight / the poles shifted / the world flooded / and Pangaea busted open like calloused palm
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Let's be honest. Ugly people have an uphill battle in this culture. From the time they slide out of their ugly mothers they stand at the plate with two strikes.
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There is a tall and leafy tree in our backyard. Also a bride, a groom, and a chicken.
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the mighty mountains sighed, and the wide seas heaved
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I turn my head. Time starts running.
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“I take him to see all those sexy movies,” she said, “because it puts the passion back in him. I love what he does to me when we get back home after those movies.”
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This is the best kind of crime scene.
Spattered like gore from gunshots,
I'm left covered in trace evidence.
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to say that he was
doing fine
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I slide my hand under the sheets. It’s cool there. An impression. This is where she would be.
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He didn’t know how to tell his story. It wasn’t an easy story to tell. There certainly was a clear beginning, but it didn’t make much sense to start at the beginning. There was no way to end the story either; the ending seemed to last forever.
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In all my marriage stories, I am both victim and hero.
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“The price of everything's gone up,” I say. “But I don't have to buy you chocolate if it's costing too much.” She says nothing and bends her head again, gnarled hands slowly breaking a family-sized chocolate block into pieces.
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That sound. Bone against bone. Skin across skin. Blood fraying into the unknown dark. He loved that sound.
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This part of her digital garden is not impressive, slightly sloppy, even haphazard. However, her avatar is an attractive woman with good make-up.
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She...learned the ways of men, especially foreign men, who eyed her mother even as they passed around pictures of their children, wallet-bound photographs that included their reluctantly smiling wives.
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And here I am again.
I chew my nails. I tap my foot. I chew my nails. I sweat. I bleed. My nose bleeds. It drips. I drip. I'm dripping through my chair.
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The City Council supports this policy and, by necessity, ranks human slavery very low on the list of the city’s woes.
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I lock the last of the beer and wine doors and head back to the cash register. Our clocks are not on bar time so I only have a few minutes. I check the till. A stack of ones and three fives. Enough to break a twenty, but looking bare. The parking lot's empty. The air…
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But I came back around, after Robert Kennedy got shot, with one hand up your skirt and the other on the gear shift...
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"Isn't it time to remove the nails, and put Jesus to rest once and for all," Mary asks.
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It felt like he'd just taken his marriage out into the woods, forced it to its knees, and put a bullet through its head. Or they had, together.
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You have been my woman’s lover now for
seven years, ever since your two souls met
at La Isla Negra.
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And you know that notion just goes to show...
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My daddy made all these gold records on the walls, died, and left me to run BadSmack Media, even if I could only manage to run it aground.
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He kissed her tits and thought of art
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Tuesdays she worked afternoons at the bookstore, and he’d secretly go, buy a large order, sit in a corner with a newspaper. Fries covered in vinegar, veins of ketchup.
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