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Twenty-Eight

We’re in bed again and you’re peeling a kiwi with your fingers. Get a knife, I say. It’s only a suggestion. I’m always telling you…

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Center for Quandary Control

Officials multiply in number while the rest of us dwindle. You can see the signs even in the retail district, where shops that once sold…

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Ragman

The consensus of the women in Mrs. Proppe’s kitchen was that the Ragman was 90. Mrs. Torto thought 100 because in the bible, what, don’t…

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Tract (The Soul)

The first slumber party in Angie Bushnell’s unfinished basement I’m light as a feather, afraid I am too fat but stiff as a board, light…

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Never Learned to Play Guitar

I never learned to play guitar because my dad’s body aches. Most of his life has been spent working in hot warehouses. He worked for…

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Becoming a Man

I nearly killed a boy named Jonathan Pilby when I was fifteen. If that nosy jogger hadn’t found his busted bloody body under the bridge…

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The Kind of People We Are

I couldn’t see over the dashboard when we hit it, but my father described it as a red flash sucked beneath the beam of his…

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Swallowed

I didn’t really know the girl, so I’m not as sad as I should be. And anyway, time makes things blurry. There are people who’ll…

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The Ocean Tied

The tide washed in on their legs. It curled and broke over their knees then receded and soaked into the sand. Scott sat with his…

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Fucking People

Two people fucking on a table, near a professional building. A person fucking near a bayou. Three really big people in a car, fucking to…

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