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My brother and I had often debated whether we could get our father to shave his moustache off, just to see if his sophistication remained intact without it.

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The lungs forsake their love of breath. The arms/ resist throwing off the small weight of sheets.

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weep or go stark mad your amanuensic fool will bury your words

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If things continue to go bad for her she will become second wife in six years.

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She was a forward-motion girl. She never bothered to learn to walk as a baby. Instead, she stood up and ran.

The Point Of It All

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He understood that people no longer read or thought deeply about things but continued to write anyway. He understood that Einstein's theory of relativity was proved correct during the world's longest eclipse of May 29, 1919 when photos of the Hyades star cluster…

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“Just curious,” Sean says, “but what’s up with the old Pinto out front?” She looks at him. “It’s my boyfriend’s.” Her green eyes are flat: What business of yours?

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Falling Man

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My mother pointed to the soaring red towers, each with 600,000 rivets, she said, put in place by men like my Pa, by their sweat and arms as hard as balcony railings.

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What led to the current situation was that about a year ago the conceptual artist had been shocked to read in a small item in a newspaper that a conceptual artist in China had also grown an ear on his forearm and this discovery had led the conceptual artist to make a …

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Forty years later he was still her Romeo, she his Juliet.

Balls

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Evening was drawing nigh and Mosby's horse had tired from the daylong ride.

Stop-time Animation of the Cosmos

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I am experience and information// at a small but irredeemable remove.

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At the Number Party

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When we would leave her place I never had a firm idea where I was taking her except I knew - and she knew - that eventually we'd end up back at my place. We did this a lot when her husband, Mack, was out of town. Every couple of weeks his job took him to…

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We can apprehend beauty only/ by framing it with the photographic/ paper’s edge or the novel’s margins/ and bookends.

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Dilemma

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On the birthday before he started school, he received a pencil case from his paternal grandparents. The violet, oblong pouch contained a pencil and a pencil sharpener in the same color. He didn't remember what had happened with the pencil or the sharpener, but he had…

God Bless You, Mr. Rinsewater

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Once upon a time, on March 8, 2011, to be exact, there was a flash fiction writer named Rinsewater who had a novel idea – flash fiction writers whose stories were published by indie lit magazines must be paid for their work!