Articles and Stories
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“Mrs. Bellin's husband strips away his amiable social veneer at night to accessorize his wife with welts and purple flesh, like an eggplant leather exterior.
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“Who taught you to be ashamed of us? I want to know.
Society, dad.
They take everything from us, don’t they?”
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“If pressed Lori might remember her mother’s eye color, but distances has dulled the hue. Blood doesn’t translate well through telephone lines.”
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“Within a single heartbeat, a body goes from one of the Earth’s residents to just one of its craggy imperfections.”
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"I don’t need something as complicated as god in my life. Give me a bible and I’d pawn it for a blanket.
Reviews: Caroline Meyer’s Hidden Cigarette Butt, Joel Reynolds’s Dried Bar of SoapExcerpt:
Her father embraces fresh cigarettes with a longing romance Caroline yearns to share. She will learn the ways of capture.
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When Samantha Gregory woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, she found herself buried beneath her own artifacts.
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He’s navigating a labyrinth of sound; his hands aren’t thick enough over his ears to keep the blame from his head. He asks what they want.
Formaldehyde (an excerpt from STRANGER WILL)Excerpt:
He removes stains for a living, those left by dead bodies. When a heart stops, his wife gets cable for another month.
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Sick, that’s the term I’m told to use, like it’s supposed to work on me, grating away at preconceptions. Because being sick implies a cure.
