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… Dreams Like This Must Die Illustration by Dani Choi. Then these women in a van … believe that diagonally across 17 there was another store—a competitor, I suppose—that sold seashells. Why didn’t … Mexico City just the day before; he’d packed the ampules, vials, and syringes inside six medium teddy bears. Had a …
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… like anyone was home. My thoughts leapt to different outcomes. He’s going to run , he’s going to attack me , he’s … on the day. Warden got sick of catering to special dietary needs. This way they don’t discriminate against … paid less. T is and always has been a person of private rituals, private rules. How we love or bury the dead is our …
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… the road reported on three occasions that he had in fact died, though these reports proved premature. Mrs. Bevan had … splatterings of bird feces. Mrs. Bevan hoped that 500 sharp points would do the trick. The following Wednesday, Mrs. … birds neighbors Migration family boys christianity 116-126 By David Lloyd Illustration by Sergio García Sánchez …
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… planets, meteors, water, dirt, cells, fish, plants, animals, men, women, babies, laughter, song, dance, fire, war, … trains, cars, telephone, television, airplane, rocket, computer, cell tower, satellite—vast wireless hum wrapped … my feet. Sometimes, instead of hands, I substitute the bodies of muscular angels: male, positioned at the four …
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… also gave us a letter that said one of us had to leave. The company didn’t allow employees to be married; it was a … risk to draw diagrams of military planes while in the audience at a concert hall? Devin never knew when he’d get an … I wanted, the kind that was only possible in stories. 117-126 By Paula Whyman Illustration by Lauren Simkin Berke …
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… this, the other one looks up, interested, gets to his feet, also with some difficulty, toddles over to see, and says, … a decade ago, he lived there with his mother, then she died and he went on living there alone. Neither when his …