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The songs that she used to sing to him still dance in his head while he wrangles equations. The stars in the cosmos spell out her name.
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On the subway, the next morning, she thought, why not? And she touched her temples again. She felt as if she were sending a warming signal through her brain. She closed her eyes and imagined walking through the entire car touching people’s foreheads and
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I am Batman, Jimmy said.
Even superheroes have to eat, his mother said.
To grow up big and strong? Jimmy asked.
That’s how they do it, his mother said.
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The door of Saint Michael's Basilica opened and a priest walked out. “That him?” Chris asked. “Yea, that's him,” Mike said. …
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His brain too, that was the real problem. Frazzled. Every time he sat down to the keyboard, he felt compelled to write a paragraph that had nothing to do with the story at hand. Deadline was only a few hours away, but his fingers would not go where he wan
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What I saw I cannot even describe. No word, in any dictionary of any language, sound, or even a drawing, can truly define what we saw.
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Like all quiet, despotic, introverted individuals, Karl was severely and deeply misunderstood by pretty much everyone around him. He had experienced more in his forty two years of life than most people would have cared to even imagine. The events which he
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In between ketchup-covered fries, a Quarter Pounder, and a vanilla shake, catty comments, and lots of laughs, Marylou slipped in her announcement, a grenade in a rose garden. “I'm pregnant,” she said.
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The tide pushes through the bottom of the door. It fingers our hair where we sleep on our mattresses. It rises to the level of our windows and pulls us to sea where we rock upon the mournful waves, the seagulls distant and crying, our nightgowns soaked and sticking to us,…
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There was a hole in my tooth. It wouldn't let anything go.
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Pop wanted a boy, so when the doctor congratulated him for being the father of a seven-pound, six-ounce girl, he left for Smiley’s Pub and got drunk with his best friend, Borchervink, who bought him a bulldog as consolation.
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“Is your husband abusive?” the therapist asks. Therapy is Kerry’s secret.
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The chipping sound started around the time Susannah reached puberty. Not all at once, it was just now and then at first.“What's that noise?” she'd say, and everyone would cock their heads to listen. Her mother eventually took her to the doctor. He said it…
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They looked like girl’s jeans. Matt held them against himself in the mirror. Not that girl’s jeans were a mark against them. Usually, girls had better jeans anyway. Matt took two of the biggest pairs out of the big chest in his grandmother’s back closet.
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I recounted missed appointments, work shifts and cat feedings along with a series of forgotten door codes, keys, vitamins, and days in which I had forgotten to apply deodorant or moisturizer. Dr. Randall listened patiently as I went down my list. When I was finished, he…
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