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Lake Michigan, Scene 0
… Park and two innocent bystanders were shot and one of them died We don’t answer     instead we do a die-in in front of … terrorists who wanted to close down the city’s access to commerce Then the public forgot about the boy they shot … continuum     our comrades in the sixteenth century were also not told why they were imprisoned or tarred or killed …
The American Traveller
… Traveller He was known as the American Traveller. He died young and was forgotten. Except for a brief revival of … of literary history. Tourists in Mexico run across his journals now and again, as I did. Usually he survives on the … by Etruscans or Phoenicians, the Chinese, Vikings, or more commonly the lost tribes of Israel who journeyed to the New …
Zenith
… vicious strokes of the chopper. Margaret Bolton did not welcome what she called “rattle-pated chatter” during culinary … on shirts and wore their caps over their eyes. Their bodies dragged along after their heads, as if a wizard’s spell … down the street in an arrhythmic burst, and when engines died, the silence was broken only by hushed voices and …
Three Tales
… then, “Ungrateful, where are you hiding?” (The shark, too, complains of his prey, Why aren’t they more forthcoming?) … all around he whispers, “This is the world. You will die. Sorry, nipper,” . . . I caught him afterward asleep. … the worlds I made, this world alone I did not destroy, but died instead, Who am I, clear and dark over the sea, dark …
Notes to Self
Aanchal Malhotra’s Notes to Self
… way of understanding the world,” she says. “It’s an all-encompassing experience. I learned things about the humanities … there. I learned how to be a person of the world when I studied engraving.”  In 2013, nearly burned out, Malhotra … archive, this was a way of building that archive. The website allows people to write stories about ancient objects …
Oxford to Wantage
… on a wet evening, merely for the sake of turning around and coming back? When I asked for my return ticket, he knew my … her left hand, and offered it. There were red and white candies, rather moist, half a dozen great pennies mixed with … still to a clear spiritual vision and to the highest ideals of his art; Masefield, finding on Boar’s Hill that which …
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