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Fiction
I floated in the tub, my head bobbing, until I felt slick as a seal.
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He got people on the conveyor belt that carried them up to heaven.
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For a moment I had the delicious feeling of fitting in without even trying.
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“Refuge,” Nina said, tilting her head back; it was a word she learned.
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Shit happens, you still have to pay up or lose it all, even if it ain’t your fault.
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It’s difficult to be blessed by Madam Pele. She gives wonderful trouble.
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She offered her face up for what should be a brotherly kiss.
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Her previous existence seemed unreal, now, a faint rumor.
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She’d lifted the plot from a TV show she’d watched the night before.
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She looks in the mirror above the sink, and her image makes eye contact.
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He didn’t fall in line with our well-established porn-shop hierarchy.
Fiction
Stripped we are — no mark of wealth or rank upon us. We wear our skins.
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John-Michael kept his mouth open until saliva had pooled behind his teeth.
Fiction
Rise the Euphrates, my first novel, grew out of a feverish dream.
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Kenny Wade makes do with short-term schemes and part-time work.
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I hear Tchaikovsky when I close my eyes and pretend I’m flying.
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I wander among my recollections of the world of letters in London.
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When one of the Baxters yelled, “Hey, Turd,” we all turned our heads.
Fiction
What does it take for a woman like you to decide to do something?
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It was as if the stranger in the train carriage had taken out a knife.
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“I’ve already submitted the course grades,” Costa said warily.
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The boys came down out of the woods and crossed toward the dock.
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Tomorrow I’ll be ratted out about the hunting, but I knew it’d be worth it.
