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Conceived in the New Liberty

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Each mobile unit carried an Alsetex grenade launcher for dispersing tear gas. Any group of five or more people was deemed suspicious and immediately dispersed by roving patrols.

Loose Tooth

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—Dad? —Yea. —When your tooth fell out, did it hurt? —Hm? —When you lost your tooth. Did it hurt? The strangest thing is the dreams that come still. I get them. Frequently. Losing teeth and running my tongue over the open wound, still…

Beautiful Girls

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and all the beautiful girls are in the river And they went in dirty But they came out clean

Two Sides of One Half

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So what. I didn’t much care for any of that nonsense. Everyone hated someone. I hated Trabants made in East Germany.

Baby Teak

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Baby Teak can access Wikipedia by rubbing two xylophone mallets together.

X, Chapter 1: Alex

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Or at least that is the way Dad explained it one night after finishing the Emergency Vodka he hid behind the ice trays on his last night in the old apartment in Providence.

Saints

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First thing I ever did when I arrived in New Orleans was buy a bottle of cheap bourbon from the ABC to go with the cheap room in the cheap transients' house on Josephine Street just at the edge of the Garden District. I set the bottle on the filthy table by the…

Italy, 1990

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She...learned the ways of men, especially foreign men, who eyed her mother even as they passed around pictures of their children, wallet-bound photographs that included their reluctantly smiling wives.

Strings Go

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This woman is naked to the waist and then nakeder below that.

Exquisite Torture

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The baby tee came off first then the cut-off denim shorts. She walked over to the queen-size bed, did a little shimmy dance as she took off her full-coverage bra, rubbed her breasts, her pudgy belly, stepped out of her panties, pulled back the down comfor

Presley of the FBI

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"You look awfully familiar," said one of the corrupt oil company execs to the dark-haired man with the sunglasses and big sideburns.

A Killing in the Market

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Everyone hoped to be assigned somewhere they could just drop in on their way home for Memorial Day weekend. Someone said, Blake, you’re single. You hate your family, don’t you?

Novel Excerpt - Full Chapter of Jimmy!

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Jimmy Gollihue awoke to the howling of a bloodhound ...

Old Friends Getting Older

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I just amuse myself by buying old guns and refurbishing them in my basement as I listen to old Bohemian polkas on cassettes.

Christmas

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First of all, there was no snow. I seem to remember that. And there was no Christmas tree in the house.