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… by what he found in the land that would one day become Kansas that he strangled the guide who’d brought him … talk broken treaties, Indian resettlement, and the Dog Soldiers who fought back against white aggression. Through the … 1968, and the other, a recent photo from the department website. Underneath is a list of “crimes and exploits.” I …
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… glimmered behind the glass. The man, who we’d soon come to know as Manager Ma, was directing us inside and … “You don’t want to talk to me?” “No, I do. I do.” “A horse died today.” “What? Is that why you’re so sad?” “No. It … there were bamboo shoots that had been sharpened to fine points and strung vertically along the top. To prevent …
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… a forever-convalescent limb. “There aren’t a lot of studies done on this. I would say the best thing to do is just … how you sit. Keep it warm. You can put oil on it. There’s a website that sells fetal-limb warmers for this, and lotions … she spotted a few empty storefronts with ghost signage: a KFC, a pair of dismantled golden arches in an alley. Yet …
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… and smoke. I thought often of what it seemed we had in common. We both sold things that lit up, but her days were … and my wife hadn’t had it cleaned since the woman died. I kept finding cough-drop wrappers and limp, years-old … who’d been so generous, that he could stop giving us vials of ejaculate on ice. Lev came some nights to leave notes …
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… Most of the trip was spent in Kumasi, on his grandfather’s compound, where he and his mother played Uno at the kitchen … calmly said that perhaps he needed to experience this homecoming by himself. Kwasi was so tired, he didn’t put up a … might give him something to do, add to his clips. There was also the Ebola outbreak in West Africa that he could write …
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… as if all the houses emanated the sussuration of comfortable life. The inhabitants were mostly young, and at … his first cigarette at Peterson’s Pond, shared with his buddies. They had found Johnny Bill wading at the edge. His … It was a passion he’d never known before or since. Ellen died young of an aneurysm. Six months later Paul nailed a …