Fiction
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She had boyfriends before she met him. Well, not really boyfriends.
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Her sly smile was a vicious remnant of her life before Real Life began.
Story of the Week
Keaton didn’t control his emotions; he put them to use.
Story of the Week
Trailblazers we celebrate. Those outcasts, outliers, and outlaws.
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My head was muffled in velvet, my body exposed in an old slip.
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Pale dust clung to their skin like the lime he had thrown on the dead.
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Shit happens, you still have to pay up or lose it all, even if it ain’t your fault.
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Upon his supine monstrous shape there was a colossal inertia.
Fiction
Ivan rolled his eyes, and looked at the sky like someone about to be martyred.
Fiction
The suite cost as much as a two-pound brick of Panama Red.
Fiction
I floated in the tub, my head bobbing, until I felt slick as a seal.
Story of the Week
He got people on the conveyor belt that carried them up to heaven.
Fiction
For a moment I had the delicious feeling of fitting in without even trying.
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“Refuge,” Nina said, tilting her head back; it was a word she learned.
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It’s difficult to be blessed by Madam Pele. She gives wonderful trouble.
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She offered her face up for what should be a brotherly kiss.
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Her previous existence seemed unreal, now, a faint rumor.
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She’d lifted the plot from a TV show she’d watched the night before.
Fiction
She looks in the mirror above the sink, and her image makes eye contact.
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He didn’t fall in line with our well-established porn-shop hierarchy.
Fiction
Stripped we are — no mark of wealth or rank upon us. We wear our skins.
Fiction
John-Michael kept his mouth open until saliva had pooled behind his teeth.
Fiction
Rise the Euphrates, my first novel, grew out of a feverish dream.
Fiction
Kenny Wade makes do with short-term schemes and part-time work.
