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Arnold was sure he'd seen Jesus in a slightly torn silver raincoat checking out the marked down wine in aisle three. Really sure. He’d seen the yellow ID badge and the heavenly aura that he’d read about. Only this Jesus looked like a woman and an attr
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“Help me,” the man said in his mind. He lay beside the folding camp stool alone in the middle of the woods, in the clearing where he and the dog always rested.
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Noirish Drips riddle a rubble into puddles, lick lakes and pratfall like a tongue Nourished in silence you take back your lips, They've never worked your mother says, Your teeth must bear the wind. In French films you will admire the…
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I'm somewhere on I-10 in Mississippi, barreling westbound at 80 miles an hour through a rainstorm on a late Wednesday afternoon. The last road sign I remember was for Beauvoir, some Confederate general's…
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Even people who love you feel more comfortable when you don’t stray too far from the box they put you in.
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We lurched forward together the extra inch or so that brought our lips and noses together to play their own game of getting to know you...
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Thus was Rent-a- Rat, Inc born. At first it was Rent-a-Rugrat, but we changed it so the Army wouldn’t be onto us. Our first headquarters was out of a damned tent on Red Square, but we would get the hell out of there as soon as we could muster the necessar
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At the house one night we were all sitting around at one of those infernal communal meetings that go on into the night full of pot smoke and red wine, when the door was nudged open and a stray dog wandered into the living room. It was a strange coyote-l
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Once or twice he sees her around town when he’s out driving but other than that, I mean, it’s not like he was stalking her, he didn’t know where she went to school or what she did for a part-time job, he didn’t care, he wasn’t interested.
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I toyed with the idea of suicide, then quickly cast it off. Death wouldn’t be interesting. Liberating, perhaps, but not interesting. I hadn’t yet lived enough to die.
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We filled out forms. In a semi-circle of folding chairs, parents were seated, bent to the task of declaring base details of fiscal identity and filling out other blanks. Among them I was distracted because I am a people watcher--my answer to one of the unasked…
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By the time the temperature was fifteen degrees on a warm day, she still hadn't decided whether to use poison or a pillow.
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She was completely naked, yet made no effort to cover herself. And her skin was impossibly porcelain and flawless, an effect only enhanced by the blackness of her waist-length hair....
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Years in therapy could cure me of the neuroses that stemmed from all that was prom night, but if I live to be a hundred and four, I will always want that meatball back.
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I ought to see, in Mr. Smith's dilated pupils, the projection of his last reverie.
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