Stories tagged love

Two Wives

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Two women sat at a small round table near the sidewalk waiting for the same man.

A Headache in the Cinema.

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In the bathroom, while waiting for a urinal, I remembered a scene from the film.

PTSD

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the demons in my head

Curiosity In Pixelated Lullabies.

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She sits in front of me/Not for my skin’s comfort/But for digital reaction

The Loss

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a bunch of flags lining the ground, like dead bodies

The Caselvetrano Olive

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He spotted her in Sarasota Whole Foods surveying the artichokes

One Night Stand

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this is not about what I want

The Belly Dancer

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The belly dancer waved a gauzy strip of blue fabric in front of her face. She flung it towards their table, but it landed feebly a few feet away. Donny lunged forward and grabbed it, then slid back into his seat, glowing. Mary Ellen reached across the tab

Love-sad

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Then there she is, and she makes me love-sad; it's a vehement, absolute, hard love-sad no one else needs to understand, though they can see; it's an emotion so concrete it's felt from the chest, not from a tenuous concept called heart.

Wednesdays They Pay Us, But Now It's Thursday

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fire rolls through the drive-thru

My Love Is A Rock

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The women swoon. The men erect their flags and go off to war.

That one night that was like all the other nights.

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My iPhone screen illuminates, vibrating on the bar. It amuses me to no end to see my comrades seated upon the neighboring stools grasp anxiously at their phones, parallel companions to their beers. I can almost read the thoughts accompanying their…

Sleeping in the Dark

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lovers aren't supposed to care about mess

Fragment from a Paper Story

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While Leif was still very young, his emotions were very easy to read, for they appeared on his parchment coloured skin, named in his mother's writing. When he was seventeen, Leif fell in love. She was a pretty maid, one of the college servants who kept his…

Letter for K.

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the kind of thing that begins with a fist