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The Girl in the Golden Hood

Despite watching her grow from a toddler to a child to a young teenager, the wolf had never dreamed that the girl he often watched…

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Pitch

He tells me I wouldn’t survive on the East Side. He tells me I wouldn’t sur­vive on the West Side. He’s talking about Detroit. I…

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Car Wash

Not the regular kind, but Do-It-Yourself. Out in the middle of Utah or Nevada, somewhere hot and brown and desolate. So dry the water felt…

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For Tourists Such As Yourself

Poland loves you, but you never come to Poland. Why is that? We are a big nation. We contain mindful, thriving people. We’ve become safe…

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American Tragedy

This lake has a woman’s name. On the drive up here, upstate New York spread out before us like an old wound, she told me…

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Why I Love of Angelina

On the island where I grew up, all the women look like Angelina Jolie. The women like to call themselves Angelina in honor of the…

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Koinonikos

The god of social media was born after Zeus came in a piece of papyrus featuring an undesirable sketch of his face. I could do…

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Astronauts under the Sea Dance

The Challenger Space Shuttle exploded in 1986, just 73 seconds after blast off. Christa McAuliffe, the first member of the Teacher in Space Project, and…

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Distress

You kick me out of the house for the afternoon and tell me to call you when I feel scared about something. “You’re so calm,”…

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Ex Pat

You’ve pocketed twenty canciones in the San Miguel morning, walking the cobbled streets. Wonder how they did this to the poets; sliced off hands to…

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