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Stony Island Story Problem
… me and it kills you, but it’s not always the same death we die or do. Why bother calling it rat poison if it would kill … he can feel. He is smiling, not wanting. Older pairs also try to get some heat on here. The old coot sitting two … stop discerning time. A belated beauty knows she’ll be welcomed, but even she speeds around the corner wearing the bad …
That Ancient Yarn
… of the sea. My sister and I were forbidden to leave the compound unaccompanied, though we could have walked to the … had many warnings about a Bombay as phantasmagoric as Rushdie’s where gold jewelry was ripped off necks and ears by … the expense, for she left her house but rarely.(Fixed points of the whirling world magnetize people to themselves; …
A Perfect Time
… “We’ve launched through the surf before.” His breath was coming hard. The guy laughed again. “It’s easier just to go … blisters. The matchstick danced. He cut his eyes to his buddies sitting on Coke crates, riffled pages, and without … don’t carry parts for that kind of product.” One of the buddies hooted. “Stay calm, Red, stay calm!” Behind the great …
Borges, Faulkner, and the Wild Palms
… that reads: “Traducció n de Jorge Luis Borges.” There is also the vaguely disquieting recollection in his … and 1946 (the nine-year span is too broad to offer us much comfort), while on holidays from his work as municipal … by him, forces him to perform an abortion on her—and dies, leaving him to spend the rest of his life in the …
A People’s Peace
… The Lost Peace. By Harold Butler. Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.75. North America: Wheel of the Future. By … that it has ceased to be so now. If such is the case, it is also the right and the duty of those who believe in this … base of the English-speaking people,” Mr. MacCormac points out, “and it is hardly conceivable that they will …
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The Academy of Chaos and Self-Command
… The Academy of Chaos and Self-Command   I am Aeschylus son of Euphorion of Eleusis and … busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. When I was a boy, in the hours before daybreak, God … and mealy spare parts along the high tide mark. Anacreon died of septic misfortune following a wound from a snapped …
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