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she hides her stash in an old coffee can beneath a pile of chopped wood where the black widows plot revenge against the world
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Janey smiled, her straight white teeth blinding bright, but Sam eyed Calico like a cat about to eat a fish. He looked dopey, she thought, but nice, yes, nice.
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And your man with the tweed overcoat and trilby? Would you look at the legs on him; Shirley Fucking MacLaine.
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These days, she resides in a facility in the north of the city, her once-curly hair now shorn gray on her dappled skull.
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The world is a private one, the container of secrets and shames, of reputations and damage done over years, of stark landscapes and icy skies.
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John Prine’s “Bruised Orange” plays in the small cabin as mosquitos swarm about the bare light bulbs attached to the outside walls of the buildings.
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Afraid of open water, he swims only in the local YMCA pool, where he goggle-eyes the young girls and feels the weight of his fiftieth year pulling him towards the bottom.
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Mary Magdalene might’ve given him a dollop of love for the terrible pain. There, my father remarked was a woman, a barefaced hussy, forgiven her sins by “a better man than I, Gunga Din,” he’d say.
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The swing creaked to-and-fro in the fog, the absence of a child telling everything except the why.
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Nestor had gummed her ear, his hands pinching her flesh, the smooth edges of his molars flattening painfully the lobe. “Piggy, piggy, I love your skin,” he whispered, her back arched over the junk of dead wringers and fridges without doors in the city dum
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Martha soaps my skinny bones and washes what she calls my "undercarriage."
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Shite like Abba and the Brotherhood of Man got a fast fuck-off, whilst the J. Geils Band and Jackson Browne got deposited in a brown paper bag and paid for with cash stolen from whatever cash register I might have been in charge of that week.
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Dairyman’s Child—the child of John and Jane Larkin—Measles
John’s tears soured the milk for all of Sheriff Street for a month
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She scratched her scalp vigorously and a clump of gray-red hair came away. Who would want her with bald spots on her head?
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On a Christmas night, as the bright star shone above a broken manger in a far-off land, doctors and nurses fell to their knees, witnesses to the hand-sized bedsore on his back, flowering all-of-a-sudden into a glorious bright-yellow primrose.
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