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… lengthens, and you disappear. Because your secrets have become mine without you, I know you’re still asking for … The few remaining are so well hidden, should they become metaphors for happiness, they’d be crippled by their …
… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … may feel good, but—without giving the president a pass—it also reeks of hypocrisy. U.S. officials across the past two … other incursions in northern Syria and threatened U.S. soldiers in the process. Associate Editor Alex Brock Excerpt …
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… then to release it incrementally, then to grip it again, comfortably but firmly, as he backed up between a snowdrift … he said to himself. He understood this thought to be a falsehood but he chose not to correct it. He liked the way it … studying his reflection in the mirror, just as he had studied hers on the drive out. He was furious with her, all but …
… man— “and what’s even worse, a successful one!”—in 1926, he set down on paper his reflections on business life as … D. Boyd) is the wife of a Boston physician. She has studied at Boston University and at Wellesley, where she … knocked down by an automobile in Chicago. Since then he has completed a book on Charles Dickens, which is ready for …
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… your working life,” asks an exasperated wife, “you’ve studied these stories. Why?” She means the stuff of folklore, … of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize from FC2, with a rousing introduction by Laird Hunt. It collects … underscore the cyclical arrangement, overall; as Hunt points out in his preface, the collection opens “I was …
… that he was aware how terrible the world of the past was compared to the world of today, how much more older people … to see something very far off in the distance. But he could also see the point at which she gave up trying to see it. … bunnies, chocolate Santas, chocolate turkeys, Halloween candies. Did he feel he had less than other boys in his class? …