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The High Priest Psychiatrist at Orwellian Industries Medical Center where I used to work loved to hear himself say the following, to my horror, at every staff meeting: "We psychiatrists prescribe the poisons to the patients and the…
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A decade, at minimum, was how long their notes had transpired.Still, they all knew how it would end.
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"Lo" was published in theNewerYork Electric Encyclopedia of Experimental Fiction on February 7, 2014:http://www.theneweryork.com/lo-gessy-alvarez/
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Papa says an adding machine tape has gotten tangled up around his legs. He pulls it off his leg, but it's really his catheter tube, so he wets the bed. I tell him he's not in a tree, and I clean it up. He tells me all about it for an hour, and I to bed.…
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Like punishment, the clock above his chalkboard never moved.
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If words have any power at all...
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That year, if you asked Al, was truly the best of times, the worst of times.
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Upstairs, in a room where some years later, the occupant would be murdered by his lover, I sat in my skivvies in an armchair and wondered if I should call my wife.
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I sit there reading a magazine while the woman clips my claws. From time to time I watch Kim’s face.
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I tell people that we leave out food for the creatures to appease the skunk gods.
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I tell people that we leave out food for the creatures to appease the skunk gods.
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She locked herself in the bathroom on our wedding night. That was my first clue that I had made a mistake.
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As I walked down to the Subway, I thought to myself that now, after the horror in Boston, everybody looks like a terrorist.
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The bartender kept looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar. “Everyone in Hollywood is an actor,” Doc said.
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