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The bungalow was unlocked. The screen
door was unhooked. The trout on the
counter was deboned.
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“Is your husband abusive?” the therapist asks. Therapy is Kerry’s secret.
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...the astonishing discovery...
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The air is dry and smoky from a fire some miles away. The air is cool. A pair of vultures is soaring in a circle high above the rising land.
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WITH A BOW TO DOROTHY PARKERWhen his fingers sped along the keys, I'd need to sit. I'd such weak knees. I thought him charming, tall, and able, then he overturned the table. Chili, crackers, cheddar cheese crashed on me-he'd been displeased. I…
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When last June V.S. Naipaul remarked "women writers are different, they are quite different. I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me...My publisher, who was so good as a
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Maddy knew how to make a sauce. It embraced the meat in a thick, buttery ooze.
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born to be mistreated by beasts in human shapes
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over tea & saltineshe read melike an obituary
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I keep encouraging him to write stories not poems, but I think he enjoys writing things that don’t fit together. Things that stumble.
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I came from the only flat region in the kingdom of mountains and fjords, and called the city “Down in the Dumps”. The beleaguering mountains smelled a flatlander when they saw one, and hated me right back.
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Christ walks the streets of Venice,/has long since become a regular . . .
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In her paper, Emmeline compares Mary Todd Lincoln's crazy, which involved spending lots of money and going to séances, with her Aunt Janine's, which involves wearing cowgirl outfits and running with strange men.
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My handwriting, slow in coming over many years, is good for lists, but I don't want to read sentences or write in it. Amber is on a list I wrote of things I want to remember of Russia: Rasputin's death and Peter the Great (6'7”). One of my lists I read as a poem in…
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Buddy was in a garage band. They were pretty good. “Soul Harbor“ they called themselves.
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Soon, she will turn to liquid
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"My, aren't you queery looking? She says.
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We borrow a flag from a neighbor. It’s sitting on top of the TV in the den. We haven’t figured out where to display it yet.
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Tony Soprano said, “My pal Franco is a misunderstood hopeless romantic. If you don't capiche that, I'll have a conversation with your kneecaps.”
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Bessie Bighead is real good at being crazy. It's all the experience she's had.
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But I didn't sleep well and my dreams were full of octopi
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I stared out the window, the fog creeped up the Avenues like a spectator.
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I was out of my element. I was on property that wasn't mine. In a woods with mansions tucked away among the trees.
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Dude -- I DON'T want to date your boat!
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where teenage mothers sat in the waiting room feeding babies from bottles filled with Coca-Cola and Group 13 was filled with the unluckiest women in the world.
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Jackson's a chocolate lab. I brought him home from the no-kill this morning. I've always wanted a dog, but I did it more for Wylie. We stand under the willow with the water running out the hose, Jackson, Wylie and I. Dandelions cover the…
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old men with crispy sunburnt ears
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My name is Tom Scarlatti and my kid brother, Billy, resents me. Of course, if you read magazines, you probably already know that. You probably don't think much of me, either. In fact, you probably think I'm a rotten no-good clod, since my brother Billy the famous…
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