Stories tagged life

21st Century Living

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there should be a word for it.

The United States Of Ammunition

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I check the NPR news app. The story about the shooting in Pittsburg has already been pushed off the homepage. There is an article about yellow fever in the 14th century, a potential ceasefire in Yemen, players protesting the national anthem, a plane crash

Nathaniel

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sometimes i have to be in the other room just so i can breathe easy away from you.

there is no erasure of things first felt

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Love escapes into primary nouns . . .

When the Moon Becomes the Sun

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While most spread their time in other occupation, I traveled through books and grew my imagination. I knew endless bliss. I was a book eater. I would just devour books that I loved and slug through those I didn't, just to make myself eat the truths and li

A crow, deceased.

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Feathers littered the ground beneath the sycamore, glossy black ones, short one and long.

Where would Desire wait

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. . . when distance loses memory in plain sight . . .

The Night Season

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the equator of havoc

The Bird: A Snippet

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He’d lost any contact with the last woman he’d attempted a romance with, a nurse from Dublin, who, after a romantic weekend in Moate with him had departed with his kissing her forehead and admonishing her to “look after yourself, now.”

Kingfisher

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Heartbeat sped as heart size shrank to a ribcage of hollow bones. The curlew’s cry froze over the open bog and morphed to the trill of the river-bird.

I have no face, but yours

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I wake to longing . . .

Metempsychosis

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Across her chest a tapestry of wires interconnected. Intensive. Care From Old English—to lament. Unit.

Dancing at the Crossroads

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We lined up opposite one another, instructed to stare into the other person's eyes for fifteen seconds. No talking. The debris of loneliness. Eyes welled with tears.

Remaking Your Dreams Come True

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Reincarnation. Not a bad deal, especially for cows. For the rest of us, it is like being in a witness protection program. And all without the risk of having those against whom you bore witness coming after you. Usually.

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb #7

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This is no time for those of a religious persuasion. No.