Stories tagged short

UNFINISHED

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In his dreams he was building a house. He wasn't sure if it was in the city or in the country. He wasn't sure. He thought, perhaps, it looked like the city but there seemed to be too many trees.

The Adoption

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He smiled, and told me that he was given the animal after a long trip, by a friend of his. What a good gift, I thought, and he agreed that it was, in fact, quite a good present.

Cheeks like glaciers

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Your face looks different,

Marie Antoinette's Angel Food Cake Recipe

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honey/she said/with a wink/and a twinkle

Mothers

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And part of us wants to cry at the stained undershirts your dad wears.

7th Ave.

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Melting in my Manhattan.

Twin Lakes of Whiskey

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not that we ever had before

Making the Best of Things

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Something Missing

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That Place Underneath the Spreading Ficus

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Vartan

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Pulling out your tax records scribbled with your handwriting, Pulling out photos of your best friends, Pulling out writings about my long-gone grandmother,

Hara-kiri

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unwrapping the gauze from her wrists....

Excursions

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I sit in the dark, awake yet aware of another inner death. I breathe in the dark with a disinclination to the cold crimes of my mind. My skin senses the failure of evolutionary processes; a certain kind of abandonment. There is no iron cage of atone

To my dead girlfriends

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You can call out,

To Do Reminders

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Frisbee dog. Stealth the cat. Read more. Cut toenails. Less wine. Bind the ties. Avoid mirrors. Divide water.