Good Stuff to Read In Places You Wouldn't Normally Look

Archive for 2012|Yearly archive page

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SHORT

In Short on February 24, 2012 at 12:10 pm

My dad goes, “I’ve always known that I will spontaneously combust,” and he explains to me what that means, that sometimes people just, for no reason, no warning, burst into flames.

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LONG

In Long on February 24, 2012 at 12:05 pm

25 years before my sister’s death mum was two and her dad was working out the war years in London. 

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GENRE

In Genre on February 24, 2012 at 12:00 pm

I will ask you one more time, boy. What will it be? Will it be heads? Or will it be tails?

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SHORT

In Short on February 23, 2012 at 12:10 pm

There are these worms that live in icebergs. They just melt when you take them out of the ice.

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LONG

In Long on February 23, 2012 at 12:05 pm

I work the midnight shift as an emergency dispatcher in the basement of the superior courthouse

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GENRE

In Genre on February 23, 2012 at 12:00 pm

He’d been expecting it, laying there in the darkness.

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SHORT

In Short on February 22, 2012 at 12:10 pm

It was the kind of song you hear the heroine singing when she’s in trouble on a mountaintop.

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LONG

In Long on February 22, 2012 at 12:05 pm

He had piloted the plane over barbed missiles and sheared a wedge off the Kremlin star when landing. 

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GENRE

In Genre on February 22, 2012 at 12:00 pm

When John Canvey came to me and said he needed a job doing I was expecting the usual kind of thing.

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SHORT

In Short on February 21, 2012 at 12:10 pm

I eventually became a bruised canvas torn to shreds by its artist.

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LONG

In Long on February 21, 2012 at 12:05 pm

Sebastian dances like a butterfly through his mother’s living room, dressed in one of her dresses. 

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GENRE

In Genre on February 21, 2012 at 12:00 pm

She screams a lot and she almost always gets her blouse and bra ripped off so you can see her breasts.

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In Long on February 17, 2012 at 2:05 pm

Ba Nguyen is lying on a cot in only his pajama pants.

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GENRE

In Genre on February 17, 2012 at 1:58 pm

It was a shortcut that I would regret for the rest of my life. 

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SHORT

In Short on February 17, 2012 at 1:55 pm

Yes, this was better, but when you flee – don’t hurl yourself chest forward, legs lolloping as if they belonged to different behind.

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