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In Short on April 13, 2012 at 1:38 pm

Metamorphoses happen even in modern times.

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In Short on April 12, 2012 at 12:10 pm

Mom had fallen off a truss bridge drunk the sum­mer prior and no thing, small or large, would bring her back.

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In Short on April 11, 2012 at 1:10 pm

Everywhere hummed the heat of overpopulation.

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In Short on April 10, 2012 at 2:50 pm

He holds tighter, tighter, and then your loneliness gets small, smaller, smallest until it is a pinprick, an inverse star, a dust inside of you.

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In Short on April 9, 2012 at 8:55 pm

I was tripping over my feet on some heavy analgesic, searching for a couch. 

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In Short on April 6, 2012 at 12:10 pm
You seem to really like Scandinavians.

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In Short on April 5, 2012 at 12:10 pm

The water was cold, and when it reached our waists we wondered if maybe this was enough.

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In Short on April 3, 2012 at 3:05 pm

Foucault was in a nearby aisle browsing through a rack of Hawaiian shirts and assorted pullovers.

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In Short on April 2, 2012 at 12:25 pm

Next thing you know the King had me locked in a tower with orders to spin straw into gold.

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In Short on March 30, 2012 at 12:10 pm

I had topped and pruned the fruit trees last fall on our half acre lot about a mile outside the murder capital. 

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In Short on March 28, 2012 at 12:10 pm

Jeremy was embarrassed his mother made him take Home Ec.

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In Short on March 27, 2012 at 2:50 pm

He cracked the shell, but one of the claws snapped around his pinky and everything turned purple.

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

The crossing guard waits until the children are out of sight before removing his head.

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In Short on March 19, 2012 at 12:10 pm

“Jonquil?” I asked. I pointed at a yellowish pair of pajamas.

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In Short on March 16, 2012 at 12:10 pm

It was a bad man’s luggage on my soul; a suitcase full of dirty books and snuff films; a ticket to a hot country.

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