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“Bling blang hammer with my hammer Zingo zango sawing with my saw …” The boy-child cooed, the man brushed the child’s nose lightly with his forefinger. Fat little baby paws grasped at the man’...

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“Objection!” “Sustained, please rephrase.” The attorney scratched his head, looked toward the jury. The top branches of a flowering plum came midway to the windows behind the twelve peers. A go...

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“Jesus! You ok? Jesus!” “You can’t shake the devils hand and say you’re only kidding.” “Are you high? Shit. Sit down let me get some iodine, how deep …? What the hell happened?” She sat down h...

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I love you; For your terrible fury For raging against the dawn I love you as the first woman. I love you; For your flaws For your blind spot I love you as a dog loves the hunt. It’s said ...

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“… Love you more than madness more than dreams upon the sea …” She stepped on the brakes a little too hard, I might have been dreaming. “Sorry,” she slurred, “cruise control.” “S’awright, wher...

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The pressure bandage is soaked through. Perversely I look as I’m punching overdrive through a red light in a residential neighborhood. My focus is pretty narrow and sharp; if I get pulled over th...

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“Sir you can’t come in here.” “You shouldn’t tell me that.” “Sir, you’re covered in blood.” “My point exactly, for all you know I just whacked a busload of nuns for … telling me I can’t come i...

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I recorded a com message for my colleagues, set to send a half hour out. The third shift siren had peeled, and I wanted to see the kwanset empty. It happened to me last night. After the last pati...

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“Multiple personality disorder.” “Thanks for taking this seriously.” “I am. You’ve already been through the likely or you wouldn’t have asked. We’ve always thought of the shattering of personal...

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... out here on the perimeter there are no stars, out here on the perimeter we is stoned, immaculate ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcWOJC-2EqM

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“I’m maybe ten, feverish, dead center summer on the plains. I’m lying in bed feeling the sweat pooling in my ears. My little sister is out front, her skip rope clickity-clacking on the packed di...

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“… It’s like them revival tent bible thumpers in, say, Kansas, somehow the bible turns out to be all about Kansas, you know? Like if there’s bugs in the crops it’s just like revelations predicted...

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By June parts of the Clackamas were too shallow for the canoe. You were hard and brown as a nut shell or whorl in knotty pine. We took the flat bottomed drift boat past the pool of plump bluegill...

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“ Hey.” “Hey, so what’s the emergency?” I pull back the puffy blue down. He looks at the still meat beneath. “Holy smokes, what’d he do?” “He called me out my name.” He paused for a moment, ...

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Write a letter of apology to an ex-lover. That’s the prompt for a flash. It’s not the flash I wanted to write this afternoon. Ok, so it’s not the flash I wanted to write whenever I got around to...

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I got cracked on the skull and sat down hard. I was out for --- I don’t know how long, probably a second or two. My first thought was ‘Don’t tell anyone you were out, they’ll do a cat scan’. I th...

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Trapped a wild hare earlier, before the storm came. Not every cloud has a silver lining, just rain clouds. The big fluffy white ones that look like bunnies the lining is white. The depot was litt...

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A guy walks into a bar and Manhattan is gone, everything south of Bleeker street. It probably wasn’t his fault, probably just a coincidence, but it happened like that and there’s no going back, n...

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“In Heaven His throne is made of gold The ark of his Testament is stowed A throne from which I'm told All history does unfold …” Nick cave growled from the little speaker, and the night rushed...

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“Sir?” “Ah, Jean, have a seat young lady.” “Am I in trouble sir?” “No, no --- please” he gestured with his hand to the hard wood chair, cherry perhaps, waxed, finished and polished by time. “...

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“Just up here Mar, c’mon, it’s just up here.” His loose sole flapped on a rock, sounded like a beached fish to Mar. She smiled. She couldn’t see his grubby paws in the underground dusk, but she...

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“What’s wrong with him?” “He wrote a book.” “Shit.” “I know, right?” “What kind of book?” “Novel.” “Shit.” “Right? I guess it makes some sense to invite trouble, keeps trouble from crashin...

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“So, do you know what you’re having?” “Yes. A baby.” “Smart ass. Do you know who the father is?” “Shut up.” “It’s just that I can’t picture Charlie with enough Guile to open the portal to hel...

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"Wishes are horses." I saw this one movie on network TV years ago when there were still censors. Every other word was motherfucker and it had to be edited with a voiceover to mommyjumper. It wen...

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“… Caught him in flagrante delicti.” “Ah ya been in one flagrante delicti ya been in em all.” “Oy gevalt, what have you got?” “Um, something about a fragrant deli, I ain’t as quick as y’all.” ...

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