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She thought he was biting her at night. Not a vampire bite, those two dots on the neck. A bite on her calf.
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My cousin pointed at two brunettes, one with Sheena Easton hair and the other with kohl-lined Cleopatra eyes. “I caught those two making out,” she said, her tone heavy with Catholic shame. “I think they're lesbians.” Last year, during my…
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it’s okay, you can come inside me
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She considered faking it. Would've done it, too, if she knew how; but she'd never had the courage to go for it before. Like, what if he knew she was faking? Would he stop and give her an accusing look like she just spit in his soup? The…
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...she had marked the stars with a blue pen, connected the dots to make Andromeda, Cassiopeia, told us of the gods behind the stars...
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“I’m a sucker for a good first sentence but I won’t dismiss the whole work based on a bad one. Besides, anybody with an MFA can write a decent first sentence. You can’t judge the whole work based on that.”
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I awoke sweating like a Mormon at an anti-bigamy conference.
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–And then she took a…what’s that…the…one big hammer…
–Sledgehammer.
–Yea. She took the hedgehammer and demolished my desk.
–SLEDGEhammer, I yell into the phone.
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It is far into the future when humanity has all but squandered the sustenance of its home, Earth. Because of this, myself and three other candidates are selected to participate in a top-secret mission to retrieve fresh sources of solidified hydrogen from
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Black and hollow, an echo in memory ebbing through my mind like a sluggish tide, caught in the brown-blue wake of slowly rolling years. It's easy to drift when you've nothing left. Easy to sink with the weight of meaningless dreams. You're just rendered terminal by …
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Behind her a cotton field bloomed and she could smell the honeysuckle and she was not alone.
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There are those who — like a beast — strike at any sign of weakness by reflex. This is not necessarily evil, for it is the only way their kind keeps strong enough to survive. Left to themselves, they take care of their own well enough. …
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Nobody gets a black eye from a lamp.
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to accomodate my 250 lb. dog
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