“How do I look?” “You look fine, honey.” “Is it fine or beautiful?” “You look like a mom,” he said. “Are you sure?” “Yes. I’m sure.” Lillian Ratcliff fluttered about the nursery as if a butterfly had taken possession of her body.
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Across the old woman’s ceiling, the stain spreads its puckered areola, water hooping frayed ripples in the plaster where something broke, leaked in the apartment upstairs, where naked lights shine cold-clear as through windows cobalted with Madonna and child. This godforsaken place.
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It rained that day. His woman was fucking phantoms in the shadows. Doorways opened into empty space five stories up. He was a ghost among real animals. His lover was rooting for the hyenas. She could barely see him. He embarrassed the
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The town was small. The museum was small, free, and uncrowded. He looked at the painting with the artist’s name faded to nothing. It stayed with him all that summer and the years that followed. A smiling girl with a sleeping dog.
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Daddy Earl drove slowly on the night-time street, looking for an address. When he found the one he wanted, he parked the car under a street lamp and killed the engine. “This looks like the place,” he said. “You two wait here.
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“Goodbye, my son” said the old bison to his beloved calf. “Worry not, I shall return” He reassured him with a laugh. Then with a mighty heave, He turned to leave For the ancient mountain road. He was setting out in search
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Hi there. My name is Sam. It is a pleasure to finally meet you. I hope that you can forgive me for these circumstances under which we find ourselves. I wish very much that things were different, and that we had longer
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Fresh basil after a rain tastes better. Sure it does. Have you ever been staring at your basil plant all day? And it’s drooping and tired And it looks sweaty And you think, ‘Christ if we had some damn water and a
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You’ll have to forgive me for waiting to tell this to you when you’re sleeping, but it’s the only way I can do it. If you could see yourself stretched out on the floor in the pool of light from the street
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