Call tick control. When they don’t show up, see if mosquito control can help in their own quiet, noncarcinogenic way.

Why do girls want to cheerlead? Don’t they know it objectifies women?

He saw each bird as a kind of feeling he’d known, imagining its movements as his own. Thrill of cool water finding its way between feathers and let himself become feathers.

At three, I stepped on Dad’s liquor bottle and now there’s a robin’s nest, faint and white, on the inside of my left foot.

touching you is a dash in the paragraph of not touching you fragment in the sentence of not seeing you seeing you is a colon amid clauses of not seeing

I swear to you, it was just my way of cheering myself up, as I licked the stamped, self-addressed envelopes

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