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Even in those days, the caretakers avoided it, said the air was bad, but not Blanche. She loved it.
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They met in the land of lies
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There was a hole in my tooth. It wouldn't let anything go.
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A look flashed across his face as if someone had hooked up his genitals to a car battery.
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He holds one hand to his heart and with the other, digs for pickled watermelon rinds in a mason jar. All pickled things give him the hiccups. He may write a paper on it. The lady in the apartment upstairs is saying "oh, oh, oh" as if she is about to cry. He stops…
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Sarah's yellow summer dress blew against her long, tanned legs as she sifted through a flower pot half-filled with gravel. I wondered how she could be so comfortable as to bend over in something so short. I own a similar dress, a blue one, and the one day I wore it to…
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He stared at the mirror, his hair looked chewed up–severed by a miniature lawnmower.
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She wrapped her legs around him. His hand barely held the rope and later he could not have said if it happened above or below the water’s surface.
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Politically, legally, physically, we're all shit out of luck.
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And I am reminded of river eyes:
The summer we slumbered,
Like mummies in the sand
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I carried him home, all blood and brains, and set him in the ground. Is that love, George?
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Little stuff at first: mistaking their dog for a cat, attempting to start the car with a bar of soap, or using a newspaper to dry the dishes. Lately, he’d been slipping: calling her by his mother’s name during sex, berating his boss for lackluster profit
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So into the woods we went, hoping to open a portal into the netherworld of make believe. I had a feeling we would see nothing, but she believed in me. At the very least I would spend a few very nice days backpacking in the wilderness.
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Dedicated to my kind teachers of English: Professors Bill Yarrow and Gary Percesepe
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He brought an incredible Mozambican girl over for me and warned me before I slept with her.
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