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How Do You Mind the Symptoms of a World So Black and Mysterious and Cold?
Continue reading: How Do You Mind the Symptoms of a World So Black and Mysterious and Cold?I was ten years old when the neighbors called the police to extinguish the Holy Sock Fire my mother had started in the parking lot of our building.
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Teddy and Freddy
Continue reading: Teddy and Freddy“I saw Siamese twins yesterday,” I said, and everyone seated around the elegantly-set dining table stopped what they were doing.
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Sharp Angles and Shades of Blue
Continue reading: Sharp Angles and Shades of BlueThere is a tendency in America to romanticize the small town, but one should not make that mistake with Rixford, Pennsylvania…
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Worm Fiddling Nocturne in the Key of a Broken Heart
Continue reading: Worm Fiddling Nocturne in the Key of a Broken HeartMy uncles have raised me ever since my widowed mother ran away from Break-A-Leg and left me behind. Josiah is all business and worms. Obediah is unpredictable and moody. It’s hard to tell whether he’ll yank me off my feet and waltz me across the boggy ground, or whether he’ll have one of his tantrums…
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Dumpsters
Continue reading: DumpstersThe bus. Early morning to set the scene. Think about the sun in the morning like that. Like it’s just like barely you know? Like it’s soft. Anyway there were two people on it when I got on, a dude dressed like the Grim Reaper with a six-pack in his lap…