How Not to Rescue Your Uncle from Accidental Drowning

It’s important to remember that a person jumping into water from a height will submerge immediately. Even if water doesn’t enter his lungs at first,…

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Crepuscule

You know, I still dream of them—riding Vespas, chipping golf balls, pluck- ing daisies, smoking pipes, rubbing the bow across a violin, chasing hoops with…

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The Pond

They separated, and it became necessary to open the closet that held all my childhood things. Boxes were splitting open, some sunken and faded from…

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Didn’t Waste Any Time in High School

Emma Curtis was so smart—thought the hole in the sheep heart was a cause of death, not a way for the butcher to rack a…

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Rumored

That the local supermarket is now haunted by my uncle’s ex-wife, that when she burned up in the parking lot all those years ago, her…

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Ohio Portrait no. 500

My beloved sister bought a dollar-coin-sized turtle from a mall kiosk. The salesman pulled the creature out from a drawer under the display; the box…

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The Growing Bones

Every night he dreamt of babies—doll sized babies that wiggled and cried, then shrunk in his arms until they were only almonds in the dip…

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Pinky

Like a girl, says my uncle about the way I hold my coffee, my small finger hooked in a J. Cool as I can, I…

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Dream Lover

For seven straight nights, Annette dreams she has a sexual relationship with a centaur named Harold. Despite his hooves, his great unknowability, the fact that…

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Quantum Leap

Sam Beckett—the time-traveling scientist portrayed by a young Scott Bakula—travels through time and leaps into your body Sam Beckett travels back through time and leaps…

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