Disappearing Act

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There’s a connection, a mutual understanding. Two waves one over. One grins. One breathes on one’s palm and sniffs hours-old choripán. Three’s favorite street food. One decides to chance it with two. Three will never find out. Three’s busy at home, a continent away, with half and third.More

Cake And Ice Cream

Cake And Ice Cream

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“Malcolm was taking away her cake and ice cream,” Barry said, edging me up. “He should have known she was gonna fight for it.”More

Automatonophobia

Automatonophobia

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But Muppets don’t end with your TV screens. Did you know? They infiltrate your workplaces, your idols, your governments.More

My Neighbor Pays Me $100 to Dress Up Like His Dead Daughter

My Neighbor Pays Me $100 to Dress Up Like His Dead Daughter

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And that’s when he told me I reminded him of his dead daughter because we both have red hair, freckles, and look like we’re keeping everybody else’s secrets.More

Claim Tickets

Claim Tickets

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For weeks after the blaze, I kept feeling like I was missing an essential item—my wallet, parts of my face, my entire body at times, but it seemed ridiculous because I was holding my wallet, could see my reflected face, and as far as I could tell, was still fairly alive. Still, some days I wasn’t sure.More

See the Wild Dogs of North Charleston

See the Wild Dogs of North Charleston

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See the wild painted dogs of North Charleston. The weak ones die, but the drive of those pregnant mother hounds snuffling the ditch-line for hours—to see them is to see ourselves. Something wild, their bodies bearing the scars of night fights and bad love and still they get up after a hard rain.More

Nobody

Nobody

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Nobody pays attention to Donny when he yells about fucking people up, but I do.More

Two Stories

Two Stories

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Tammy Faye face, dollar store wig, she smokes Camels on the chaise while I root through her kitchen for oven cleaner.More

Ducksie

Ducksie

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For a sex worker, she was cheap; but for a prostitute she was harder on the wallet.More

Why I Started Feeling Better About My Accent

Why I Started Feeling Better About My Accent

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Because my husband Bob, out to sea with his maleness, will fly around the front yard, nekkid as a rabbit, as if to challenge me, and because my mother never thought twice about murdering a jackrabbit in the late afternoon.More

Two Essays

Two Essays

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People want to be sportsmen because sportsmen are rich. People want to be artists because of money as well. If binmen became millionaires everyone would want to be a binman.More