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The Accidental Beekeeper
… Barry stomps out of his truck shaking his head, and points behind me toward the road. “You need to reverse out … few days later, he carries not a yellow legal pad but a briefcase and soda cup from Hardee’s. He wears the same boots … and forever on his way to work, rumbling through the rain.  26-53 By Benjamin Rachlin Photography by Peter Frank Edwards …
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Sixty Hours of Terror: “No Hostages Should Remain Alive”
… Ajmal Kasab spoke before a question was asked: “I have committed a big mistake.” He lay flat on the hospital … to go after today’s incident?” “Nowhere. We were meant to die.” How many accomplices were sent with you? Kasab tried … Handler: That was one of them, right? Imran: Both. 10:26 P.M. Nariman House. Imran was cratering. With the …
At the Green Cabaret Five In the Evening
… jokes as he looks on, And red or green battalions march and die; While a terrifying, pounding madness Turns tens of … darkly             on the floor from the compass’s four points. It’s night again,     the tenth night already. It’s … arms     To the nonexistent heavens. 14 June 1926 291-300 …
The Green Room, Winter 1985
… investigates “how it is that such discrepant opinions have come to be held” and considers “whether any reconciliation … recent years he has left the practice of law to his wife (also an attorney) and devoted himself to writing full time. … and other journals. Nancy Hale’s novels include The Young Die Good, The Sign of Jonah, Dear Beast, and (her most …
House In Summer With A Slapped Face In It
… spine split    by gold-leaf, swears he hopes he’d want to die. Never (your hand at the dropped stitch of his pulse), …
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The Talk
… the button that sent the colored silks spinning, the burgundies and stripes and patterns whooshing past. He paused on … be critical, to sharpen their arguments into fine, piercing points.  Besides which: Miranda is so young. Nine! he thinks … what he should have said, he reflects as he settles his briefcase onto the overhead rack. “Come home” was too final, too …
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