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Nothing is accomplished without the confidence of practice, the little joy of a pleasing thing that nourishes even before it is eaten.
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Nothing is accomplished without the confidence of practice, the little joy of a pleasing thing that nourishes even before it is eaten.
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Their hair--neon white in the sun—is cut Dutch boy-style over too small ears.
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We spun around and around in tatters and shreds, wearing time wearing it thin.
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Terry marked each spot where we did it with a red “X” on this map she had taken from my dad's gas station. In those days gas stations gave out maps for free.
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Nothing is accomplished without the confidence of practice, the little joy of a pleasing thing that nourishes even before it is eaten.
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In ESL, I learned that I was not like the kids on the Brady Bunch. I was Hispanic. It took me three weeks to remember that. HIS-PAN-IC.
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Then there was Alyce, from your mother’s lesbian moment. Would you count her?
Probably not.
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The old hiker plants his feet firmly in the craggy ground. He musters up gravity; at least, all that gravity is willing to give him. This defiance amuses Notus. He lets the old hiker think he's won.
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War came home tonight. We weep and hug, while he stares over our shoulders, like the statue we'll make of him. We pour a drink for his shaky hands, wheel him past his friends the dead, and lie to each other about other, far off places as if we knew.
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“We don’t drop litter. Pick it up.”
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She stares at the grinning death’s head in front of her, inviting her to make a deal. Any deal. She looks up and around the casino floor. She is in the center of the maze and there are no exits.
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...in the really faraway places where the rain falls like sugar-drop candies on the flesh of young women...
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At first he thought it was a cat she was holding, swathed in a white, fleece blanket
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It was the only fair thing to do.
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