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In a dazzle of emerald softness, it flew out into the breeze wanting for the red apple in the tree just outside my window. The power had gone out, spare change to total meltdown, and the air inside was stifling, thick with mind-numbing languor and mosquitoes. So I…

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She sees the little girls in the yard through her front window. They’re as naked as the day they were born, not far from the event itself. They dip backward and forward like pitchers, laughing, balling up their little white fists and shaking them like t

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"Merry Christmas, Willie."

When Serpents Had Stairs

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But She Means Well

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He had become an accessory to a murder.

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& where, I wonder, is the poet’s planet, What kind of king, or queen rules it?

confronting the nonconfrontational

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What the Father Said

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Giant Piece of Art Causes Chaos in Switzerland

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After shooing away the filthy pigeons and closely inspecting the bench, he squinted with his good eye at a second-page article on noise abatement headphones.

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A Fish Story

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Apathy.

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Breaking Eggs

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