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… conditions have exacerbated the problem.” They went to commercial, and the old boys and blue hairs set to talking … at the country school outside of town. When my wife, Nina, died, Liza Blue showed up asking me if I wanted to get … broke for years. In the late night, while we tended the coals and listened to the horses shift and stomp flies, I told …
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… her money to shop down at The Junction. Her accent, her obedience, the long coolie hair collected in a braid down her … He says he needs me to drive him somewhere. He points and I make a left on Flatbush. “Where are we going?” … American fiction female writers Guyana science medicine 126-137 By Tiffany Briere Illustration by Gosia Herba …
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… and everything, warning signs, those rail things that come down—” “Crossing gates?” “Yeah, crossing gates, but … of only children. Grady’s parents quit after him; my mother died after having me. No one since Dick, our grandfather, … troubled. Half-recalled dreams cut through at intervals, images of oil and sludge, bodies of goldfish half-sunk …
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… from home that day and had been growing restless at her computer, as she often did by late afternoon. But, looking … And I would like, for once, to have a shitty day without also feeling guilty about it.” He was lying on the couch … born terminally ill, would we have sent them off? To go die somewhere alone?” “It’s different, Priya. She isn’t …
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… dreary the rest of the world was—was roughly analagous to comparing Xanadu with a federally subsidized … had seen her. Christine wondered about anorexia. She would also like to know, from Maury, whether Maury took drugs, if … laughing and kidding around and acted as if a cop had come to the door of a party. They had been buying scallops. …
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… June 25 Then twelve months passed and once again: the company picnic. A day greeted with joy, with dread, with … watermelon-eating, sack race). A DJ and dance floor. Oldies music pouring out across the landscape. “Can we go get … the entire perimeter of the grounds, stopping at various points where riders could disembark in relief, seeking …