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The phone screamed again, nearly rattling off the hook, and I winced. Only in the dead of night, silence all around it and with the ring so unexpected, did it register as an alarm like this.

Kepler On The Bus

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On the bus I sat like an ounce.

The Lost Boys

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Every day hurts, just a little, but not enough

White

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“White,” he says. -- “Black,” I answer.

The Party

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My wife tells me I should marry Pam. “She would be good for you,” she says.

Samosely

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If you’re not dead yet, you’ll die of something.

Sounds from the Sun

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It was a lovely day all the horrors in deep hiding leaving me, leaving all of us, a chance to wonder why

When Borders was Alive and Well

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I'd been working for two years as a barista in a Starbuck's in a giant, two-story Borders in an upscale mall on Rt. 355, a main artery between Washington D.C., and Frederick, Maryland. I'd finished my M.F.A in 2000 and was trying to build up steam for more grad…

Coming Back To Earth As A Dog

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Even after he shot me, I still loved him and even after I was dead I wanted to be with him. So I forgave him once more and made the crucial decision to come back to earth as a dog. …

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

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Rothko explored horizons,/ blurring figure and ground/ by omitting the figure.

Bubble Gum and Paperback Books

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A block after his first crime, he found a bookstore to commit another.

Party Line

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Mama reads about UFOs in paperback books and newspapers with big cloudy pictures. Her girlfriends know about flying saucers, too. They get drunk at night when they are sitting all alone in their living rooms because they are divorced or married to men who

The Basement of Desire

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sooner or later you realize

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You Take All

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so sassy so sassy so cool

The Krafft-Ebing Poems

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his dreams are filled / with aprons

Boyfriends

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He's Eric Roberts, the stalker and eventual killer in Star '80.

Variations on a Theme by Pina Bausch

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Threads of sadness in the hands, in the touch

Fuck Ups

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we try, we keep trying

Mister Fix-It

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Lined up like ghosts on the front lawn, the second-hand porcelain fixtures had embarrassed her.

NO FAVES FOR YOU

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The Bicycle

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Oh what fun they had riding that bike! What adventures! They went everywhere, in town and out.

Would You Ask A Librarian For A Lap Dance?

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In the 15 years that I've worked at my local public library, I've learned that we librarians do plenty of things for our patrons that aren't in our job descriptions. After a patron asked me to change her flat tire, and another wanted to check out our pencil sharpener,…

The Light at the End of You

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I'm reading your remains.

Apartments

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. . . there is nothing so selfish as sleep.

Listening to Neil Young on a Gray Day and Understanding Clearly What My Grandfather Told Me Long Ago

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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?

My Wife, My Love

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When I died, she said, she was going to have me cremated and put my ashes in the cats’ litter box.

Inner Charlie

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When Charlie woke up he couldn’t find his inner Charlie.

The Counter Where Names Go To Die

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One day a woman, one of several translators at Ellis Island, asks him why he has changed a passenger’s name from Checzowicz to something else. “The name was too long,” he says. “Ten letters.” She replies, “But you didn’t change O’Shaughnessy, and it has

Lost and Found

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