Fiction
Fiction
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A Body in Motion
Arriving home in his private plane from an L.A. movie set, Rick can almost fool himself into thinking that he is famous.
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Hard Feelings
The big clock on town hall marks the hour, the bells inside ringing and ringing.
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The Surgeon
It is the spring of 2007, and I have traded in my solitude for friendship.
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And They Said It Would Be Divine
It breaks like this: We hold on tightly, and literally, because we’re young and we’re stupid and because we still want to have hope.
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Blue Before Dark
For six days after the operation, everything was blue.
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ISOPROPYL (JESUS ENTERS THE MATRIX)
I'm sitting with Larry at a Chipotle in midtown and his thousand-yard stare tells me I might dial the nihilism down a notch.
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“Oh, Galileo”
The purple haze of Jupiter surrounds us in its cool-toned glow.
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Where You Go
From my desk, I watch her turn the pages. She is meticulous, each touch / feather-light and exact in her dissection.
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The Great American Smackdown
Politics is like an awful off-Broadway play that can’t decide whether it’s a tragedy or a comedy.
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Pigeons
Floating on the bubbly foam of her extra hot latte is a wilting tulip pattern that looks like the wounded black bird she saw lying dead by the fountain yesterday.