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For some, a vertical pattern will evoke prison bars, for others, product bar codes.
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Marie shrugs. “Maybe she’s just late. Come on, let's wait by the jungle gym.” She runs over and starts climbing. The jungle gym is closest to the path that goes into the woods and down into the canyon. She has to get him into the woods somehow.
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When they called him down there to the morgue to identify the body, he drove behind the wheel of his truck like some steady maniac on a long haul. The Ford 150 cried out for new shocks, but that hardly mattered. Mud plastered side panels and…
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The two were huddled in a corner of an alley, joined by some others that I’m sure wandered into the darkness when they realized they were far from alone. That alley was the one off Market Street. I used to steal candy from the corner shop when I was nin
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I need a different storage solution
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Erwin came into the kitchen through the back door and went straight to the sink to clean up. Black mud and dried blood crusted his fingertips and caked the callused whorls of his knuckles. He used the round of strong-smelling soap he kept for…
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At night, on these New England roads, there is no light, no pink sodium-vapor glow, no guideposts.
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Borges must be so proud somewhere
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I talk wands and magic and how women aren't supposed to care,
but I do, and she talks length and girth.
Her fiancé has neither,
she makes an illustration with her pinky
and says that if they don't marry within the year,
she's dumping his ass
and we
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There's a mirror in front of me and I thought it was so I could see myself, but I didn't want to see me.
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Most nights while in his sleep, with his one good eye deeply shut, the old man can hear the whispers of the specter in the remote wanderings, holding the surrounding woodlands in its snare. The sound of it closing in, with the bones of the universe crushing in…
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as long as you have some snacks up there
I can be brave
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I remember the tan guinea pig, dead of dehydration. Through the wire bars of her cage I viewed her body. She lay stiff on her side, stretched out, as if in her guinea-pig dream she had been running through grassland, open and close to the sky.
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It was only when blood began to drip onto the page that he realized he'd been hit.
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I hope you'll have the time to read this before your attention wanders.
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I had felt suddenly lighter and next thing I knew I was watching Leonard Tucker and Sister William from somewhere near the ceiling. I saw myself, too, at my desk, holding my songbook out in front of me like everyone else.
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I found my black dot nucleus. School got me in the 10th year with the numbers spilling outta my head, but now I got the cell on my mind. Everybody's floating around this joint all pink and green college clean, yellow face Japanese, or the jet-headed Greeks with their…
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On the table the image is by Chardin but the puzzle is by someone else and that is what he has dumped out of the box.
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She was a beautiful woman. I don't argue with that. I welcome it.
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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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“They picked me up in their spaceship about noon,” Austin Grantham says to me while pulling up an apple crate to use as a stool.
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Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.
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I know now, how she moves without verbs
after you crushed her into the river.
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Often we sit in silence and age. We are observers of dust, fashioning ourselves into antiques.
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over tea & saltineshe read melike an obituary
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A strange and unexpected shift has occurred.
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He kind of enjoyed living by himself. It was nice and peaceful.
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I watched as the light fled
from your eyes,
No slowly dimming lamp,
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The everlasting shone through when skirting the tenuous threshold of the two worlds.
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