A Surgeon Removes Frederic Chopin’s Heart for Safekeeping, 1849

Here’s the final task. Micha covers his arms in more blood than he’d expected cracking the chest open. The body is newly dead but cooling…

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Double Switch

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They Dig Up Oliver Cromwell’s Body to Publicly Hang It, 1661

Jeter’s World History report has taken a turn. Marty is gone again, so it’s my job to sit in the kitchen and make dinner and…

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The Call of the Gulls

MUSIC

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Dear Estranger

I’ll never send this. I’m writing it on my phone from a cafe, looking out at the same beach in one of Grandma’s old photos…

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Colors Dreams Stone

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Dear X,

Remember that time with the search warrant? I was cocooned in your warm mania in the house you built us, happy as a sky. You…

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Music of Ferns

MUSIC

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Bone Creek

Bone Creek runs east of the house. In summertime, a cracked dry mud covers it for a quarter of a mile, looking like an imitation…

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Gypsum and Ash

MUSIC

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