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Children
Somehow, he knows the precise moment at which to tug the fishing line. Past the unknowable edge of every corner building, he is a wiry boy with hair asunder. His ...
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The Soul Factory
Look at that factory: a sore upon the city-street; a boorish decoration that has sewn itself upon the sidewalk like a vile, self-sufficient plant. We were minding our own business, ...
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Encounter between the Farmer and his Swine
The soft red leaky tendrils of the sun’s emitted fumes upon the farmhouse windowpane: a morning whisper jagged in design and prophylactic tedium to wake the sleeping farmer from his ...
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Subsequently
Was a rounded pendulum swung, dangling from the air, springing downward from an angry clock-face? Was it like Cronos’ stretched and aching member, invisible to my puny, penis-avoiding eyes, on ...
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Bitter-Root
I like some of the imagery here, i.e. the description of the distant fences in repose. Very nice. I think the line-breaks mid-sentence are a bit awkward, however. Consider breaking ...
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Members of the Vast Conspiracy
My father was a police-man. His Slavic arms, the size of middling-to-large libraries, protruded from his massive, operatic chest. His braided, unshorn hair sloped to the mid-shoulder, decorated sporad
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It's Beautiful
Boz sat the kitchen table, eating toast with peanut butter and reading Boy’s Life magazine. He was reading an article about how to tie a Sheep Shank knot, a skill ...
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Musings on the less fortunate
A muttering, dusty figure, slumped forward on the sidewalk. Where others quicken pace, afraid you'll rape them or ask for money, I pause a moment to place my patent-leather briefcase ...
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Inevitable Dread
God give strength to this sloppy-tongued git, this avatar of awkward lying semi-conscious in the purgated morning mud. Here I stand, shuffling, stumbling, and fumble footed down these bleak angling ...
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An Indifference
I wake from the nausea of sleep to some foreign breathing, heavy and irregular, cold and awful. Terror saturates my guts. There is no monstrosity, no groaning creature clothed in ...
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Grim Specters
Am I paranoid? I don’t think so. I look out my window and see them, nightmares made flesh. With azure hair and prescription pills, walkers, mobile chairs, oxygen tanks, coupons, ...
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A Moment of Silence
I tumble forth into the world. From a womb-vessel wrought, I sat and thought near the edges of time till the moment came to ruin my oblique heaven. Old doctor, ...
