Stories tagged chapbook

Her Ennead

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Her baby is a furred thing, alternately bristled and then soft. She hopes it isn’t shedding, wonders how she’ll ever get all that hair out of her if it is.

How They Were Found and Who They Were That Found Them

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William Baker breaks a second-story window from atop a shaking ladder. William Baker peers into the darkness and then signals to the other officers that he’s going in. William Baker uses his nightstick to clear all the glass out of his way.

Once She'd Been a Brunette

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They shave their hair together, before she even starts to lose hers. It's to show how much I support you, he says, and she appreciates the gesture even as she suspects their twin bald heads will only add to the public stares she fears more than anything.

Sacred Rock

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The village is quiet. The moon kisses the sun.

Solitude

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Bright sun beams rise from the east.

Humility

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My heart is like a piece of wax waiting for a seal.

Intention

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I often wonder what the Armenians think of me....

Garden Light

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Sometimes I sit in the garden and listen to the sounds of the evening:

Yasaman

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I see emeralds break through waves of rock and yellow grass, pink beads folding within a blanket of light.

Thunder Snow

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It is late in the evening. The wind awakens rusty hinges. The gate swings open, squeaks. Cool raindrops peck at my bedroom window. I disappear into the yard, the darkness. I fold my arms, tuck my head beneath my itchy sweater and walk…

Blue Light

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The day slips behind the mountains.

Leaves of Yesterday

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The wind blows strong.

Muted Corners

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Within the bright glow of snow there lives a secret of the mind.

Otherworld

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Have you ever dreamed that you were dreaming?

The Secrets of the Dead

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The sun cried in 1915.