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East of Apalachicola Haunted
Continue reading: East of Apalachicola HauntedThey’ve trained up their boys with switches & belts. On storm-nights, a boy might fall asleep counting barrels of oysters to shuck.
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“Florida Man flashes buttocks at IHOP after impersonating a police officer to get free food,” & other thoughts on Florida as home
Continue reading: “Florida Man flashes buttocks at IHOP after impersonating a police officer to get free food,” & other thoughts on Florida as home13 outtakes from Sarah Viren’s Oxford American essay about Florida.
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Flying Toward Morning
Continue reading: Flying Toward MorningDays passed and I feared she would sleep forever. That the hospital had put her under a sleeping curse. I told Anne my theory that some doctors were witches, some were fairy godmothers…
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If Florida was a man, this is how I’d miss him
Continue reading: If Florida was a man, this is how I’d miss himFlorida calls me ma’am, calls me darlin’, calls me Sweet Pea, depending on how well he knows me.
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2 Poems
Continue reading: 2 PoemsThey laughed the day they broke my humerus and splinted it with wire coat hangers wrapped in black tape so my skin couldn’t breathe, so I’d understand honest pain.