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The Stillness on West 144th Street
Read more: The Stillness on West 144th StreetThe way home from Sally’s reeks with garbage, piss, and sweet rot pushing up through the sidewalk. I’m not much better. Hair stringy with grease, breath sour from ginger beer, I’ve danced off the week to a bar mitzvah medley of Def Leppard and the Black Eyed Peas. The white bricks of my building cut…
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Two Friends Paint the Living Room Pool-Bottom Blue
Read more: Two Friends Paint the Living Room Pool-Bottom BlueHe knows—of course he knows—that we’re breaking the lease agreement. He pretends to be stupid and I pretend to be innocent and our rollers suck and ooze.
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The Shoe Store
Read more: The Shoe StoreIf you can help a man of sixty-plus years shop for Dockers, do. If you can help a suburban mom in athleisure, Windex the mirrors. The moms will leave you in peace.
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A Cheerleader Orders a Burger
Read more: A Cheerleader Orders a BurgerShe wants her uniform to catalyze her potential and not be the summation.
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The meek shall inherit the earth
Read more: The meek shall inherit the earthA woman dies in Palermo. Thofania has poisoned her husband, and others, but her name gathers flies. It is her goddaughter’s that drips cold, colorless, into folklore. Giulia sells cosmetics. Her bestseller gets rid of unwanted blemishes. It is Aqua Tofana, a tincture of tin and arsenic. It kills in four doses. The doctor dismisses…
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How Many Snouts
Read more: How Many Snoutsan adaptation of Hecuba & Hecate If I had been weaving when the ghost came for my daughter, I might have tangled him in my threads and pushed him up into my tapestry of Troy as it was before the fires ruined it and stank up my wool. Wouldn’t that vex him. Me, too, a…
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Bites, Jan.
Read more: Bites, Jan.The news was doing animal videos, so Jan decided to make pancakes. They came off golden-brown, and the humidity was low enough to open the front door and let a flowery breeze through the kitchen. Jan sang over the stove, flipping the last pancake and swallowing phrase to phrase. The cinnamon made her salivate. And…
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The Academic
Read more: The AcademicMedieval medicine take up a whole shelf. Splendid. Not one, single book can give you a comprehensive rundown. Twenty will tell you the same thing, slightly rephrased, so you’ll think you’re learning but you’re only aging. Having never been to the reference floor, you’ve been picturing a wooden stand under a spotlight: on it,…
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The Dog Queen
Read more: The Dog Queenan adaptation of Hecuba & Hecate The dog made a racket in the brush. She was not used to hunting. It annoyed the other predators, who found her stomping about their hunting grounds a sure sign of her alien origins. She did not walk as one used to four legs. Her strides were a conscious…
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Blue House
Read more: Blue HouseThey added stone lions on either side of the driveway and paved over the pit. Ladders went up. The girl started taking side streets when errands brought her through the old neighborhood. The blue house, hers, existed now in thought. She liked it that way. Thoughts were durable. Thoughts were shelter. Thoughts were pure. The…
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