1494 7 7
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My face turns to promise more, but my insides are browning.
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14942117
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For my Dad
Happy Father's Day!
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149443
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The mouth on my breasts is hungry, searching, needing...
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1494146
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No beeping of horns, just complete silence. No panic, just calmness. There’s this one word: serendipity.
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14942015
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Feminine, safe, though disembodied,/
she shapes your life in ways/
your mother never could.
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149497
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I never looked at her face.
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149410
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Elin and I had religious differences about the garage. To her the garage required regular sweeping and organization--it was an extension of our house. Elin believed dust and mold to be manifestations of inner sin. I insisted that they were agents of evolu
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149435
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The vampire donated floodlights so the children could play ballgames at night. The lights came on but the dugouts remained vacant. The vampire sat alone in the bleachers. “Sometimes I am less than the sum of my parts,” he said to the sum of his parts.
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1494109
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She asks me what she should do, and I say I don't know because I'm no good at handling fragile things. She says, let's talk about you. I say I can't - phone signal, you know. She calls me anyway, twice, then leaves a message saying that she just wanted to
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149373
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Maybe she thinks in Czech, dreams in German, pretends in English. Babylon is a beautiful place after all.
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149300
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“Is it a dream? Or is it real?”
Questions Megumi asked herself as she stood before the mirror. She no longer had fox ears or a fox tail. Even her long brown hair had turned jet black and her lavender eyes were a natural green just like Alysia’s.
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14931415
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There he was, naked and covered in green mud
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14931513
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Sixteen years married, and now she wants a wedding ring. He brings her a box of Cracker Jack. She doesn’t think it is funny.
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149331
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Under the Dempster El and off in an alley, the girl taps the vein. The buildings moan. Thirty below wind chill, and the girl's jacket is cast aside. Her pupils dilate. “My mother, my mother, on this night, my mother, she died,” she says. …
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149300
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It’s confusing enough to grow up in a place like America, a country without definitive culture, except for ranch dressing and reality TV, but it’s even worse to grow up half one thing, half another, christened a hyphenation of names without connection to
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14931212
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you were very very small, you were everso small, you were like – the tiniest creature, hopping about on one leg
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149365
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We lingered there in that room for a few moments, stuck in the awkward goo of rejection and regret. At some point, I’m not sure when, I left, found a bathroom down the hall and washed my ear.
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1492138
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on this scenic route you will likely encounter a handful of bicycle spoke lobster traps.
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1492129
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in which creative destruction holds the heads of entire populations beneath the surface of the water in bathtubs until the bubbles stop
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149244
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Alma Tucker settled into middle age with the comfort that escapes most women. Her festival queen days gone. Along with her wispy waist and cherry blond hair, replaced by broader curves and graying tresses. She was content with the way age had changed her
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14922916
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"...they ran shirtless like pagans under southern stars."
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14922814
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You are terrified. You light/
the autopilot light and trust//
the small machineries of self/
to land things safely,
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1492157
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I could call him. And be done with this waiting but I refused. I wanted him to not forget me first. To bring himself to remember me first before I'd give him the pleasure of my company.
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149200
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The lead man, who did not seem to be the most important or distinguished, just the one walking in line before all of the others, knocked twice on the door and opened it quickly. He stepped gingerly through the doorway and the others filed gloomily in afte
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149241
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Steam rolls out of the bathroom as Mr. Larson opens the door with a white towel around his waist. Pepper strolls up to him and purrs as she rubs her long, gray tail against his tanned legs."Hey, girl.” He runs his coarse, scarred fingers through the cat's soft coat.…
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149295
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I guess it’s extremely difficult to be a decent human being in all aspects of your life.
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1492137
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Trapped inside a seashell, almost pickled and eaten for dinner—could my life become any more bizarre?
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149264
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The last time Ray and I broke up, I flew my flag at half-mast. It was the kind of thing that pissed him off. He was very big on flag etiquette: how the flag should be folded, the fact that it should never touch the ground, when to fly it at half-mast, the rules regarding…
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149132
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In row nine, there was a lady on the window seat. Seeing the potential of space between us, I asked, “Mind if I take this one?”
“Not at all” she said as if she hadn't a friend in the world, apart from the poor bastard now sitting in seat 9D.
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149123
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It's blues, bars and boots since you went away. You were wiferustled like sheep, like cattle.
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