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A Necessary Evil

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But it was a necessary evil and one he’d made peace with, easy to do when he arrived home each day to the comforting touch of his wife, his home.

Bandit

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After Alice scraped the decorative border from the nursery walls, she placed an ad in the university housing office. Summer break had just started, but within days someone called. Rune was her name. “Like the fortune-telling alphabet,” the girl said,

Must Have Own Canoe

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The woman had run off with a bloody property developer who dresses in open-neck shirts and loafers: So much for her taste!

Bandit

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After Alice scraped the decorative border from the nursery walls, she placed an ad in the university housing office. Summer break had just started, but within days someone called. Rune was her name. “Like the fortune-telling alphabet,” the girl said, her voice…

The Way Back

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The car has been parked there for slightly more than a day now, and nothing has occurred—there’s nothing “unusual,” nothing “amiss.” Except that it’s there, still, as he follows his boys to school.

Down Cellar

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Down cellar, my father showed me where he kept his beer stash. It was in a cubbyhole under the bulkhead, where Mom never thought to look.

Across the street.

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When the talking's done, they get in their cars to go wherever they go, and just as soon as that last car clears the path, the yellow-cabbed trucks are back and the men get out.

Toothbrush

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...and he would stumble from bed in a panic and fling the toothbrush at the mirror cursing all the while "fuck fuck why can't I forget her".

Lover of Beautiful but Unstable Women

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He was buying his breakfast bagel when he’d seen her in the mirror behind the counter dipping a finger into cappuccino foam and licking off the chocolate flecks.

Wedding Cake, Scene II

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“Guess who,” whispered his daughter at his ear. He could smell her cinnamon chewing gum which had been fresh an hour before, and the faint odor of marijuana.

The Fountain

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The man looked at him for a moment, as if he didn’t understand him, “Mr. Wallace, you have a genuine miracle in your bathroom. This isn’t something that just wraps up.”

Watching Our Reflections on TV While We Wait

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We sat in a row on the long couch and no one's legs could reach the floor. Granddaddy took the first one the kid who no one knew and said to us "the rest of you stay put."

From Hell to Breakfast - Chapter One

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In all of its forms, pain will whittle a man into an unholy and rotten piece of driftwood leaving him thankful to be so small and unnoticed that he be only pressed into the wet sand beneath the devil’s foot and hopefully left to exist, so long as that

From New Sketches In Gravitas

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"Just once." he had said. "Yes." her head...he knew he could have gotten in there. After all, she had cried. That was the easy kind.

In The Digging

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In the digging he lived... for a bit. His holes were wide, and he never stopped making them.