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The Faithful
The host resumed her script. “Before you leave, please reveal if you are a Faithful... or a Traitor.”
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The Lonely Saints
The dollhouse wallpaper I grew up in: soft blue, gold stems, French rococo. That abides. The stains that would never come off have pleasingly still...
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Julie's House
Title stolen from a wonderful Leo Kottke song. Otherwise no relation, I think. You can listen to the song here
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Poem V: Many Fold
Poem V · the one who replies in kind Many Fold They began the war from the air . We counted backpacks with bloodstains on them . We said: We will...
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The Green By-Election
He’d been knocking on doors for three hours. Rain fell, on and off. A cold wind chilled the back of his neck. His leaflets became damp and started curling at the edges.
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Lists of derivatives and integrals
For problems and applications of Calculus we will need derivatives and integrals of given functions, in practice obtained from formula tables and...
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The Doll's House Chapter 7.
Chapter Seven. Cruxton. The gates were chained shut, the houses boarded, the wells capped with stone. Ivy grew unchecked, curling over signs no one...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 8. August
Chapter Eight. Mice. At the bottom of our backyard was a brick air raid shelter. It was now used as a coal shed. We were not supposed to play in...
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A Day in the Life - Part One
The report said I was driving erotically. Just kidding. I wanted to draw you in. Are you still there? Good. I awake at four AM. I get out of bed and...
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Looking Backwards
First, my thanks to Edward Bellamy, for borrowing the title of his interesting book, written long ago. The concept of “looking backward” has always...
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Courtesy Calls: The Midway (3)
He came up and built the pyramid slowly, so everybody could watch, the three silent ones first. He wiped his palms down the front of his apron and...
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Courtesy Calls: The Midway (2)
There had been a boy standing at the top of the spur, by the funnel cake stand, while the girl won. Kurt had seen him without looking at him. The boy...
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Courtesy Calls: The Midway (1)
Kurt had come for the weigh-off, and the weigh-off ran late. They held it in the agriculture barn at the low end of the fairgrounds, under a row of...
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To Forgive Myself
I guess I should be honest with myself, right? The pain I caused by having hope in a life that rejected me with all the innocence I presented to it...
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“We’re pushed all over the place, but it won’t be like that forever.”
I came across a writer who said she pitied her work because it could only ever come from her own lens. And I thought, well, that’s why we read. So,...
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The Doll's House Chapter 6.
Chapter Six . Siddly. Siddly was quiet. The houses were close together, their roofs sloping low as if trying not to be noticed. The streets were...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 7. July Part 2
All the buses had gone, as had the ambulance. Mr. Peach was bent over a car talking to someone inside. As I ran up, the door opened and Mr Plunkett...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 7. July
Chapter Seven. School Sports. At the beginning of July, the Headmaster of my Junior School stood on the stage. Mr. Plunkett took Assembly every...
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