Stories tagged meg-pokrass

The Only Cow I Would Have Run Away To Paris With

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In my dreams - Bo clusters with whole grain oats, a touch of honey, and I wake up knowing that she was my health, my sanity, and this was the only cow I would have run away to Paris with.

The Serious Writer Is Not A Cougar

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Parrots live to be older than forty. Sometimes, she wonders if she wouldn't feel more comfortable being sexually defined as a colorful, quirky bird.

The Hair Guy's Dog (a yAWP prompt story)

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He is so orange headed, so photoshopped and so bad at small talk.

Just Like Magic - by Arlene Ang and Meg Pokrass

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He was happiness incarnate—with large magic breasts, that was true.

Lost

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That was why his face looked like a mole's face - the kind of face I could love and the only kind of face that I could talk to.

The Seven Year Itch

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It’s not every day that a girl like me gets greeted with a hairy beast that orgles and spits when excited. Didn’t help none that it only had one eye. Poor little ole bugger.

FLATFISH

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I just mesh with what I'm given. Say you run away with a trickster, a con-artist. Say he's your step-father. Say he asks you to do things you like at first for thrill but you know are wrong.

Kamikaze Birdsongs

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Twisting and twirling, nearing velocity terminal, the wishbones in their chests rise and fall with the cadence of different bird songs calling. As they whistle down each is distinctively screaming.

Kumquat Soda

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Pam spied her ex-husband, Steve, at a Whole Foods market. He was buying red organic grapes, seedless grapes, the type of grapes that babies choke on.

Pitt Bull

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I figured out where you keep your valuables, he says, twisting his lips up. Looking at my exposed stomach.

Oxalis

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My breasts came out like pimples. Tom grew hair around his chin. It felt like a movie of us getting old.

Her Own Music

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Fiercely addicted to their iPods, the "I Am" members shivered or growled when she attempted to converse. Worse, the men who tried to talk to her after the get-together had mange, or fleas. They scratched at themselves nervously and stuttered.

Celebration

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He looked more and more like a child’s sketch called “man”.

Foreign Accent Syndrome

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Most people thought she was a bitch as soon as she said hello.

winking

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The clouds above the Dublin Mountains are like singed cotton balls and the rose bush branches tremble in the north wind Mam hates so much. The lawn is a frozen square of muck, the white frost crusted on the few blades of grass left standing.