Stories tagged boys

The Nameless Boy Files: Books creative non-fiction

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...he tries to read ‘Advanced’ Pynchon after I’ve conquered and recommended what I’d consider ‘Beginner’ Pynchon. Mason Dixon is a loud swarm of ink he sideswipes, hardcover, bought remaindered at Trident in Boston, mine, and returned. But, it’s one I tak

Notes on a Travel Story

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150,000,000 dead Siberian mammoths undressed by snowmelt

The Girls & Boys Club

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She says: Princessing is not a process. I have skirts to be lifted.

Check

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When Quince came rolling up into my front yard that morning, we were up to our neck in August, staring down a seventh-grade year that had crept perilously close when we weren’t looking. I’m thirty-five years clear of it now, and I can still sense Texas on

Billy, Ray & Melvin Have Their Say

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up against the strippers’ backstage trailer where Billy is soon enough spraying black bowel blood in geyser arcs, spitting teeth like ivory beads popped from the long wavy crimson chin strings;

The Devil's Advocate

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Still, the demand for virgins appears to be huge.

Sleep Music, No. 1

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Now they are sleeping in a poppy field, sun-drenched warm afternoon girls lying on their stomachs and sides, faces in flowers, and flowers blowing, blowing. If this afternoon were every afternoon, the world would be cured.

We're hunting down the monsters.

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That boy is a monster. —Lady Gaga The Loch Ness Monster: found in the Indies, Scotland, Rider University, and Downtown Disney. May resemble a brontosaurus; maybe an elephant trunk; maybe a goofy,…

Eyes that Said Don't Leave Me Here

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Two friends follow the train tracks by their neighborhood.

Freeing Annabel Lee

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It drifted into the sea, I say, when you ask me about home. You’ve only known me for a few moments, so you’re not sure how to gauge me. You laugh, and make an Annabel Lee reference. The English teach in me wants to hug you. The New Jersey in me wants

What Some Boys Do

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I squeeze the soft bag tighter between my legs.

Settling

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But she knew what she would find. She knew it all the moment she felt the sticky fingerprints behind the slat of her old oak slay bed. The fingerprints that would only be left from a person grabbing it from behind their head. The fingerprints that she

Label Maker, Too

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The Breech

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The signs at the edge of our world clearly state, NO WOMEN ALLOWED.