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I remembered our wedding reception. I tasted the crab cake, pulled her from greeting people, said, you have to try. And she did.
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The world knows how to make you smile. I'm certain, but it's your own unique grin that they want for themselves. It's always been their perfect prize to horde. The trouble of course comes from wanting something that only exists in…
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Millicent asked me to stop over at her place for coffee after work because we needed to talk. While pouring, she said she was torn about telling me what her father used to do to her when her mom was not around, but she thought I needed to know how twisted her life was…
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The child was delivered, set to breathing, and whisked away before Fae Anne could even catch a glimpse of her.
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No one has touched me for a long, long time and I believe that is why I am dying. This is a notion that is new to me but it has persisted over the last few weeks and I believe I finally have apprehended the truth. There was a time, I remember all too well, when I might…
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I interviewed in an hour and didn’t have an umbrella, so I ducked inside the next door I passed. It didn’t matter what they sold, I wasn’t there to make a purchase.
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I am standing in my neighbor’s back yard in my underwear, and my trash can is clean.
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I'm standing outside your window with our son's fingers in my fist.
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Their breath stank inside my lungs and tamped down the very minute amount of remorse I had left. It was replaced with contempt. Their fear warmed my cold sensibility as I steeled myself.
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Reality winks at us then scampers off
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perjured like a fickle impulse
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. . . clinging to life in a shroud of winter air. It veered up five flights to a sweltering summer night on the roof . . .
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He gathers our abusive fathers, our esophageal tears, our peanut fetuses.
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A woman with fallen breasts is attempting to hang her laundry on a string. Two tall men mount horses and ride them into the meadow. A squad of children wrap themselves around a playground.
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They confess love for Karaoke and metal rock. They have purchased expensive Stratocasters and Zildjians.
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I keep sneaking looks at this guy on the subway. He's old, maybe 80. Really thin, the kind of thin that makes you think of a skeleton. But he's wiry. His beard, it's a gray, shaggy mess. He's mostly bald, but the hair that grows around the sides and back of his head is too…
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The little Lady and I drove down to New Orleans to take in the Mardi Gras festivities we’d read so much about.
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Hunters took 925 bears in the 2020 season in Vermont
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The light, oblique and waning, filters through butcher’s paper to reveal a body suspended in death but never decomposing.
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The Count was used to boredom but he had reached the point where he was even bored with boredom.
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Jesus will walk on the water.
Judas will walk on a technicality.
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They all looked for Vic's leg after the accident.
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"We gotta get out of here", you said
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When asked to turn over the Church's riches / he brought before the Roman prefect the poor, blind, ragged and infirm.
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However did we make it this far/
without murdering one another
as the other sleeps
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She wears three or four tattered sweaters on cool days. She pushes a basket borrowed from a grocery store. There is a plastic lawn bag in the basket with God knows what inside.
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When I was a little boy, I had a thing about women’s behinds.
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