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I paused in case she said more. Then, “He’s very faint but he wants to talk.”
She leaned forward, chin almost resting on the grey-haired woman in front of her. “Tell him to shout.”
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I walk through nameless
streets, narrow and winding,
past shops selling scarves,
spices, skins.
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In a perfect world, national boundaries would not exist. Different cultures and traditions would still be there, but they would all coexist and people would borrow from each other with abandon. A real melting pot of a world. People would be able to come and go as they…
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Just thinking aloud, really. And by aloud, I mean typing for someone to read haha.
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The walrus head seems impossibly large. She hoists me up so I can rub my fingers across his hard muzzle, play the whiskers like strings on a ukulele.
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150,000,000 dead Siberian mammoths undressed by snowmelt
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I do not yet really understand the power I seem to have at this moment. And I am certainly too young to recognize that it will end up being weakness, too.
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We trade broken phrases of English, Arabic...
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Early in the morning
I wanted to send you something
for when you wake;
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I hoped I did not look as panicked as I tried not to feel.
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The sweetness turns your tongue inside out, and the texture of the cake on your inside-out tongue makes you feel all at once like you're in love, and like you're a child again.
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The second time she visited New York, New York, it was just in passing to get to and back from Long Island for the American Association of Women in Engineering conference. She planned to linger on a couple of days after to see more of the city. When th
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I am far from home, wherever that is.
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A bride, dressed in white gown and flowing veil, totters in high heels down the uneven pavement past Simone’s Café. She holds a bouquet of red and orange chrysanthemums. Three men, wearing black tuxes, accompany her; one of them holds up the hem of her dr
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Love is the universal language, he said. That was probably his excuse for never learning English.
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