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The number 25 double-decker bus threads its way through the narrow two-lane streets. Coughing and burping without a hint of embarrassment, it carries us from the train station, with its cheerful round clockface and neat front of red brick, over the weepin
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This was before the cancer, years before. He did this every day: up at five, before Astrid and Max. Four cups of coffee in the machine. A bowl of granola. Five hundred words. Five hundred words no matter goddamn what. Five hundred words on Sunday and Chri
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Home is where my parents live and my relatives visit.
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He stood sopping in front of the mirror, dripping onto the limp puddle of clothing on the floor. He needed a haircut. He needed a shave. He needed to get rid of the two-fucking-inch white hair inside the helix of his right ear. He plucked it—and all the h
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it’s a shame what passes for art these days
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these three remainders you, me and her are the legacy of simple math
and boolean logic, not so much
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Each boy held a stick, nudging at something at their feet. Yuudai moved toward them, the burned grasses crunching like a cow eating heartily.
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She leans to see fresh bruises in dawn's early light.
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Years later, I found a map in my brother’s lonely apartment in L.A. “Bury me here,” he instructed in a scrawl on a map he had drawn of Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Trent’s had many phases: Madonna, Bette, leather, water sports, rollerblading, haiku, chicken queen, rice queen, muscle queen, daddy. But religion? This is new.
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Pretty boy looks over at me and grins, got a smoke?
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Make cartography with your mouth...
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He repeated these six words like a prayer. His only confession.
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Tonight she was on a date with Peel who wore a string celery tie, admired her vines, opened leaves, complimented her fresh lettuce wrap. Never mind that if her date stood sideways, he was an exclamation point, a comma, a question.
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Lucinda was born with red lipstick.
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