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Fight Week
… dust with stunning clarity. She pressed forward, hurled the combinations she had spent countless hours honing. She … some kind of pale dust on the knees, and a swamp-green hoodie, strange only because the temperature is already pushing … Kayla crouches beside the woman, taps her knee, points to the end of the aisle. Together they crawl to the …
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Eric Clapton’s Lover
… as she got larger, she got more vehement, less willing to compromise. Now she cooked two dinners and ate spicy lamb … whose restaurant did not take BankAmericard. There was also a “confidential” to T.S. in Portland, Oregon saying … at their small heads, their straight ears, their big bodies, their delicate legs. How could such animals do …
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Holding
… 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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Transfigured Night
… 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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Quartet
… 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 …
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The Vermilion Sea
… for cheap, in a boatyard. On this mission, they would be accompanied by Jakob, a German man Uffa had befriended a … he said. “We have a saying where I am from: Vorsicht ist die Mutter der Porzellankiste . It mean: ‘Caution is the … punctuation and was especially infatuated with exclamation points. “When we are back home, we will hang out,” Jakob …
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