and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"My grandmother on my mother’s side was never one to hold back..."
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and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"My grandmother on my mother’s side was never one to hold back..."
tinyurl.com/ys97hdjs
"In July the air was thick enough to push back. You and I stood in it, early, before the sun arrived like a loud, brash fire."
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"In July the air was thick enough to push back. You and I stood in it, early, before the sun arrived like a loud, brash fire."
tinyurl.com/fsh8y5uv
"The only person standing in the tiny windowless club, I hold in any move to dance like a secret, battling urges to conceal or spill it."
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"The only person standing in the tiny windowless club, I hold in any move to dance like a secret, battling urges to conceal or spill it."
tinyurl.com/4ktyn5pf
"From the lonely sidewalk, Reggie the Hand watched a car murmur past with no one in it."
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"From the lonely sidewalk, Reggie the Hand watched a car murmur past with no one in it."
tinyurl.com/3achnyx8
"Everywhere that stupid backpack, at his feet during class, in his lap at the cafeteria, worn forward as he shuffles down the hallways alone."
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"Everywhere that stupid backpack, at his feet during class, in his lap at the cafeteria, worn forward as he shuffles down the hallways alone."
tinyurl.com/5t52ufbc
"A woman circles the track at the YMCA after work, around and around like a mouse on a wheel."
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"A woman circles the track at the YMCA after work, around and around like a mouse on a wheel."
tinyurl.com/2pyxennd
"It had something to do with the dryer. We’d been playing Russian roulette with it."
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"It had something to do with the dryer. We’d been playing Russian roulette with it."
tinyurl.com/449y8wer
"I’m just sitting here, dumbstruck, maybe for the first time in my life unable to articulate the thoughts that are buzzing through my head..."
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"I’m just sitting here, dumbstruck, maybe for the first time in my life unable to articulate the thoughts that are buzzing through my head..."
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"This isn’t just a Bozo the Clown Classic Punching Bag. This is training. Every time someone punches Bozo in the face, he flies back up, smiling."
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"This isn’t just a Bozo the Clown Classic Punching Bag. This is training. Every time someone punches Bozo in the face, he flies back up, smiling."
tinyurl.com/mwy8a3e5
"Devil days got that fool magic brewin’ in the hot, you know what I’m talking about, those close Kansas afternoons when the thunderheads build and build, climbing up the sky..."
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"Devil days got that fool magic brewin’ in the hot, you know what I’m talking about, those close Kansas afternoons when the thunderheads build and build, climbing up the sky..."
tinyurl.com/3jd9de8n
"But you didn’t call me back is what I hear the man whisper into his cellphone at Gate 8, an anthill of people and commotion blurring around me, the thumbtack beginning its push..."
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"But you didn’t call me back is what I hear the man whisper into his cellphone at Gate 8, an anthill of people and commotion blurring around me, the thumbtack beginning its push..."
tinyurl.com/3v7eeta8
"Not silver-tongued like the devil but silver bullets like the ones that kills werewolves. Alice always switched words, said something other than what she meant."
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"Not silver-tongued like the devil but silver bullets like the ones that kills werewolves. Alice always switched words, said something other than what she meant."
tinyurl.com/h8vs5npr
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.
"I want to scream at you but I know you don’t want to hear it as you wander around the abandoned drug store..."
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@lumchanmfa.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.
"I want to scream at you but I know you don’t want to hear it as you wander around the abandoned drug store..."
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"My girlfriend for all of senior year played tenor sax in a polka band. If you picture her in a certain way or think that’s funny, you haven’t heard the whole story."
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"My girlfriend for all of senior year played tenor sax in a polka band. If you picture her in a certain way or think that’s funny, you haven’t heard the whole story."
tinyurl.com/3zt5d5c4
"Shelly was in the middle of making a mule when the phone rang. It was a nurse she’d never met calling about the father she’d never known."
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"Shelly was in the middle of making a mule when the phone rang. It was a nurse she’d never met calling about the father she’d never known."
tinyurl.com/38sffkr2
Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social.
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Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social.
tinyurl.com/ams8we9k
"We have taken the deaf babies out to swing. One of the deaf babies is mine. I am not deaf, my husband is not deaf, but our baby is deaf, and no one knows why."
tinyurl.com/3c692jkh
"We have taken the deaf babies out to swing. One of the deaf babies is mine. I am not deaf, my husband is not deaf, but our baby is deaf, and no one knows why."
tinyurl.com/3c692jkh
"I’ve been counting down the seconds on the prison’s digital wall clock ever since it hit six minutes, and now I’m down to six seconds left for the Governor to..."
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"I’ve been counting down the seconds on the prison’s digital wall clock ever since it hit six minutes, and now I’m down to six seconds left for the Governor to..."
tinyurl.com/yz9djmfr
"There are certain things you don’t want to know about your dog."
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"There are certain things you don’t want to know about your dog."
tinyurl.com/22cmz3av
"It was East Memphis High’s fiftieth class reunion, and David Cassidy appeared at my front door in a powder-blue tux with his feathered hair..."
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"It was East Memphis High’s fiftieth class reunion, and David Cassidy appeared at my front door in a powder-blue tux with his feathered hair..."
tinyurl.com/muu7kprw
"The thing about roadkill is you can really see it."
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"The thing about roadkill is you can really see it."
tinyurl.com/mp7rfcm9
"On the street in front of her house he waits in a baby blue Pinto head lights off exhaust clouds winter white, yellowed street lights."
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"On the street in front of her house he waits in a baby blue Pinto head lights off exhaust clouds winter white, yellowed street lights."
tinyurl.com/yrbz94dx
"Pharmaceutical conferences come and go. After all these years, I don’t expect more from them than a few free drinks and a handful of business cards that will sit on my dresser..."
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"Pharmaceutical conferences come and go. After all these years, I don’t expect more from them than a few free drinks and a handful of business cards that will sit on my dresser..."
tinyurl.com/58seszf6
"Scrubbing the dog’s vomit; subtracting his runny stool from the white carpet. Scooping coffee “crystals” from the jar in the cupboard and dissolving them into microwaved..."
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"Scrubbing the dog’s vomit; subtracting his runny stool from the white carpet. Scooping coffee “crystals” from the jar in the cupboard and dissolving them into microwaved..."
tinyurl.com/3xe46bup