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Worldwide, sturdy bells quickly superseded decomposable, and edible, cheese balls as jesters' preferred cap ornaments.
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Through its branches we saw a couple. Teenagers, narrow and pale, two young birch trees, their roots twisted, submerged in the water.
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Only now, I realize it wasn’t wise to date multiple women simultaneously.
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Whenever I asked Beth, what if Star Wars was real somewhere, she’d reply, the Empire’s dead, babe.
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80 words. From a prompt: Write a piece about a restaurant whose menus rhyme.
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I’m stretched out beneath the table watching her feet rub together like another pair of fussing hands.
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Freedom comes with a price
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[He] practiced aromatherapy and licentiousness, in no particular order.
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Once when we were new she swung her foot in rage and I caught it. Black stocking, toenails polished red, beautiful silk appendage. Urge, desideratum, compulsion. I pulled her toward me, collapsed us together.
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They discovered the baby in the grass, under the snapping cotton sheets.
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On a night in 1952 he walked her home in the freezing rain, past the nativity in front of St. Mark's, sharing his flask of schnapps. Look, my fingers are prunes, she said. He kissed her hands and said, Let's name our firstborn Adlai. She laughed and said, No. Dwight.…
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She drew her hands out of the chest cavity and looked at the clock.
‘Time of death,’ she said.
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Kuwait, Valdez--I’ve done my time.
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She looked down. The people were small, childlike, without understanding.
(99 words)
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At 27, he wasn’t my first.
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