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“I don’t know what’s going on there,” Hank, who hated his name and wanted a more Biblical name because those names (Jeremiah! Matthew! David!)—although common—sound ominous, said as he pointed up to the top of the apartment building that housed the whores
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“Land ahoy!” “Breakers ahead!” Panicked shouts from the deck above meant nothing to me. Stripped of pride, dignity, warm clothes and…
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Mario was a dafty, a pure numpty, and he didn't have a clue what he was doing. 1. Tube (noun) Scottish slang for idiot. I knew from previous shifts that my thighs would hurt as if I'd done the Grand …
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Out the window we could see the parking lot and, across the street, the Bijou Moonlight Laundromat.
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I asked her about it in the schoolyard, the rough white bandage covering the accident of her marriage, tapes cordoning off the scene of the crime. Two fingers held together, for better or worse, for sickness, for poorer, for a few weeks more…
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It wasn't hidden, exactly, but kept in a place where she wouldn't be expected to look: a photograph of Roger, naked and supine, looking at the camera without surprise.
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The wayward slant of sunset comes. My body's bent by hours and days spent angry, leaning toward this end. I pack some clothes and leave the rest. I try to guess but can't predict the cost of hateful words we've said, the hurt that cannot be unhurt. We bled screams onto…
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Rape me. At least, I think that's what you said. Or was it your clothes? Yes, that was it.
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His thrown chair in a vacant lot.
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Unable to wait, she carved her own language of love into the tree that was her body.
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She comes in with her white bag with its floral patterns scattered, almost accidentally, all around it
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The gun is heavy. The tiny women hold it in both hands.
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What if. But then. Why not.
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The story begins ... There were no pigs' huts of straw or stick or stone.
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