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“Mommy,” the voice was thin as a fledgling's. “I'm here, baby,” I said. An arm rose from the pavement and small fingers wound themselves into my…
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I know from the experience of too many odd sideways glances that folks are seldom interested in my brand of observation. No one else seems to wonder how many commas there are in the library or how many other people own that exact shirt.
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"Come closer." She whispered.
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Maybe our whole generation is going to hell, but I’m not getting any younger or better looking. Life’s too short for the missionary position.
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Sometimes I have really violent dreams where I smash Libby’s face in with a liquor bottle, a brick, a mounted boar’s head... really whatever my brain makes available to me. I always wake up satisfied.
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It's possible I was having an acid flashback or some kind of semi-conscious when I opened the door of #3.
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They gave Lee a bunch of morphine in the ambulance and he came to vaguely, murmuring shit about God and mermaids.
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My orange drapes are thick and they don’t breathe, not in the summer heat of Hong Kong. They flutter when the wind blows; they fall and get sucked between the rusted metal frames that have withstood the last thirty, forty years. Run your hand along them
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Where is the lush moody Saigon of Marguerite Duras? In its place I have found a sweltering metropolis of scalding boulevards, people lunching on noodle soup on tiny bright red and blue stools, clustered together on urine stench sidewalks.
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In Washington Square Park in the center of the fountain and cupped by delusion he whirls and turns shirtless
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Freedom comes with a price
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True love may last forever, but the most I've ever gotten out of a lab assistant is two years, five months, three weeks, twelve days, and fifteen hours. And he was the exception.
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We meet in cities foreign to us, usually at the unfortunate close of a chapter. The precipitating event functions in the manner of a natural disaster— a fateful region of the earth is chosen by the gods and within moments, obliterated.
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It was early spring when he hit her.
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Patty sidled up and clutched his thigh. Her big and well-defined body tipped against him. She was too drunk to stand up straight, so she rested her bulk on Mario. “Wanna help me play a trick?” she slurred.
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