Stories
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We’d open our mouths and sink, trying to make an ocean of ourselves.
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Sue Williams tells a pitch-perfect story outloud, about devotion.
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A world of adventure awaited, a world of beautiful, available women.
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There’s this cool magazine online. They let people read it for free.
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My own hunger was for a reduction in the vast space between people.
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As soon as her grandparents left, BLAM, the dance in her died.
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She holds her smile like a note sustained at the end of a phrase.
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I eat what’s in front of me, as all great men do. Some wouldn’t, but I do.
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She does not know within a decade she will unload a slug into her mouth.
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A little music. An empty bottle of whiskey. It’s a little like cheating.
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Our crowns are made of dead hair and get swept out with the trash.
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If it were fiction, calling the place Newtown would be too much.
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He finds the note taped to the lid of the toilet: “There’s someone else.”
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I ask that now I be allowed to see the one my vision has been denied.
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Lust was just a frenzy of activity that had mostly led Benny in circles.
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The people with pebbles go home to frolic under the detritus of the day.
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An excerpt of The Transit of Venus, read by actor Juliet Stevenson.
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Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden was edited by Tom Jenks.
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He twisted like a weasel in the sack, lashing backward with his fist.
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The writer was there ahead of the world. And that was a great moment . . .
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I will tell you about the sick. They are ruthless, they are like Attila.
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What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?
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Best-selling author Melanie Gideon reads from her novel Wife 22.
