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The real problem with being face blind isn't that you can't recognize faces. It's that people expect you to be able to.

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Lo and Behold, there you are beside me

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my God, I have no time, no time

SNOWSTORM

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long lines, short words

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When To Break Up With Your Gynecologist

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... reason never lies...

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The decision to wage war on terrorism gave to terrorism its political legitimation.

Puddles

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The first inkling that I might be in love with Josie came at our high school senior day outing at, oh, what's its name, state park. I forgot, but it doesn't matter. She smiled, did a little wave and stepped away from her friends, lifted her sundress a little to keep it dry,…

The Vote

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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.

Valentine Day

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News from a Distant Relative

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(Suddenly, too lazy to pull even one title from his shelves, he thought: if it's now the “Dao De Jing”, shouldn't it also now be the “I Jing”? Alas, he was no translator.)

Still Strangers.

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I didn’t question any of it and instead sat motionless as she dropped my wrists and walked away seconds later.

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the champagne foam cascades like cherry blossom ensnared in the first gales of spring

A Shot at Pool

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Meanwhile

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I saw/ star shine in/ my silver pail

The Prince of Arthur Avenue

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The Parade Route

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There will be no more internal birds like singing clocks, not like the lovely ones I know and still look forward to hearing, ringing like little bells in the church y belfry of the newly sprouting mornings to come, not unless the birds…

Toothpicks

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27 words with title.

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For you I bring the circus, I reinvent the shine

The Secret

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Infinity Pool

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I sink until water saturates my lashes, waiting, breathless, for the words to stop.

Tracks

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The winter following their son's death, Mr. Kelly's wife became absorbed by the tracks that ran in back of their house. At any given hour in the night, he'd hear her in the next room, their son's old room where she now slept, shuffling through dresser drawers. He…

The Nondescript

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Her arm rests at her feet on the platform. She wears the remains of tiny leather boots. She is naked except for her boots. For a hundred years she wore a Russian dancer’s dress.

Cooking

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  His grandmother's recipe called for the pasta dough to be beaten with a bone--and not just any bone either. It had to be a human femur. This was his first hurdle. Where would he get such a thing at this hour in this part of town? Or, for that matter, at any…

Mausoleum

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March for Me

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A son packs his bag - bottled water, extra masks, and jerky. Mom paces behind him. “Don't go.”

Threshold

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