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And Here’s What I Said
The fucker stole the phone right out of my hand. I was in the middle of writing you an annoyingly difficult text, waiting
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Yesterday in Sand
I carve deep grooves into the face before me, loose sand falling to the ground in small red piles. The eyes stare back at me
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Visha
V isha screwed the silencer onto her Glock-19 and rested its tip on the SUV’s steering wheel. She aimed past the windshield and fixed her
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Imagine Dandelions
I magine Genesis, order from disorder. I sat on the sun-warmed tarmac with seventeen other female prisoners waiting to board
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Crew, Yeah?
Y ou do this man, we crew, yeah?” I nod, but it’s lost in the shake that has taken hold of me. I try to
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To Do
O n my desk, nestled among the chess pieces I use for paperweights, is a To Do list with a single entry.
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Daphne and the Driftwood
“…Travellers ne’er did lie, though fools at home condemn them.” (William Shakespeare: The Tempest; Act 3, Scene 3) D aphne and Ari pulled up at
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Grammar Black Market
O ne day after writing a blogpost reviewing a movie, I was sent a cease and desist letter in the mail. It explained that I’d
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When Stars Scar
T he first smiting we saw was Trevor Wolfson on the local weather channel. His job was mostly to point at the radar and look
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Spilt Milk
G ood morning, it’s nine o’clock. You’re listening to BBC Radio Ulster. The headlines: A soldier has been shot dead in an IRA ambush on
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Now Cracks a Noble Heart
“Goodnight sweet prince; and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” William Shakespeare; ‘Hamlet’