Stories tagged fiction

Breasts and Pickups

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Two giant greasy hands were working those breasts hard, squeezing and tugging and pulling. She didn't holler.

running away from home

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We marched on torn feet, the calluses such that we had no hope for the future. You toted your cantilevered heart in a suitcase, a cartographer out of his league, bound for the ocean.

How To Profit As Copper Becomes The New Gold

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We have no more leaders, only rulers who live in another country. I don't ask why my cousin's hand is bandaged, what he's been burning, what's tarped in his truck.

Shuffle

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Something is clearly wrong with them and we're supposed to socialize them.

Travelin' Light

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Los Angeles disposed of me in little less than a year.

WWJRD

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On a visit, Jesus sees bracelets with WWJD. What does that mean? he asks. What Would Jesus Do? they respond. I wouldn’t wear that, he says.

Interview

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My autobiography will read : I am hired. But no : I am still here, in this little office, where the fluorescent light surrounds me like cloacal fluid. The personnel manager’s eyes are dark and dilated, without visible irises, whether from the peculiar

Pink Dress

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I dance in time to the bachata; a deep baritone voice sings about a lost love. I see the dancing people and the gray cloud of cigarette smoke over their heads. I see the kids playing tag, using the dancers as base. I see the young boys, looking straight a

Kalinivka

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Kalinivka, Kalinivka: The ground over the mass graves is hard, the soft grass grows. The Ukrainian Guard, boy and girl, make love, happy to be alive.

It Was the Light

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A fast breeze, along with laughter from a group of teenagers in St. Mark's Place, filled the bedroom. Ashley's hand slid over Ben's back, and he felt like shrinking away into the old king-sized mattress.

We're Grownups, After All

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Dennis saw her picture in the morning paper. He knew it was Maggie—she still had her dark red curls and the freckles along her cheekbones.

Somehow There Was More Here

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Josh and Maddie gave me hope. This was nothing I could tell him, though, being as emotionally stunted as he was. Sure, they fought...And they never said the things that people should say when what they say means something.

X, Chapter 4: The Median Happy Point

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“Now, touch the tree from here.” Alex looked at him, puzzled. Dad just motioned his eyes back to the tree, extended his own hand out into the air, and slowly moved his palm down, as if he was petting it.

Growth of the Lone Wolf

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Even in this small college town they have an armored personnel carrier. It was given to them by a federal grant from the Department of Homeland Security

The Cook

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