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So this was it, at last this moment had come. He gave no credence to the notion of fate, yet this final act had been inevitable.
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We fell asleep on the couch, alcohol on our breaths. Mambo and cha-cha-cha beats in our knees. Damn two-dollar high-heels left welts on our feet, but we danced all night with different brilliantine men: gold teeth, mustaches, pinky rings that looked too big for…
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Bartholomew got in his car. The mill above him was massive, and how it loomed. He left his phone in the passenger seat during meetings. It made him think of his wife, of the children he couldn't have. If they'd known it sooner, God, he said, he would
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I'm somewhere on I-10 in Mississippi, barreling westbound at 80 miles an hour through a rainstorm on a late Wednesday afternoon. The last road sign I remember was for Beauvoir, some Confederate general's…
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He sat on the seat furthest away and could not look me in the eye. Nor could he even glance in my general direction. He put one leg over the other and tried to speak. He shifted his weight. He crossed his arms across his board chest. He…
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Susie sighed. ‘I suppose I'll have to phone for a takeaway,' she said. ‘Thanks, darling.' A few minutes later she said, ‘I could always leave, you know.'
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she's bent over and reaching into the oven to pour fat over a chicken. I just want to tug those pants down and thrust.
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Once or twice he sees her around town when he’s out driving but other than that, I mean, it’s not like he was stalking her, he didn’t know where she went to school or what she did for a part-time job, he didn’t care, he wasn’t interested.
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If I tell you when I was six I remember climbing a tree, falling, and breaking my wrist, fine. Now let me tell you the tree was an elm whose leaves showed the first tinge of yellow in the young autumn. Purple and white clovers dotted the yard my father hadn't gotten…
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We filled out forms. In a semi-circle of folding chairs, parents were seated, bent to the task of declaring base details of fiscal identity and filling out other blanks. Among them I was distracted because I am a people watcher--my answer to one of the unasked…
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By the time the temperature was fifteen degrees on a warm day, she still hadn't decided whether to use poison or a pillow.
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I go over to the bed and lie down. Sarah stands up and away from the bed and then takes off her small golden sweater and slips off her blue winter dress. Her skin is a milky white, except the grey and black bruises around her knees, ankles and arms
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Most of his son's team is staying at a chain motel on the outskirts of town, but Manny has opted for a little hotel closer to the rink, a cheap, drafty place with a stained toilet and non-matching bed sheets. Abstract paintings of red smeared paint above
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I don't know when it was I first stumbled across your blog. I know I definitely must've followed the link on your twitter profile, but how I found you in the first place, I have no idea. But fate works in mysterious ways, I suppose. I remember I then visited your blog every…
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On the news they said that there was a baby born in a stable. There are rumours that he may be the son of God but initial reports are unconfirmed.
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