Laura? Pick up the phone. I know you’re there.We both loved the classics, especially black and white ones. Her grandfather was a cinematographer back in the late 40s. He taught her to appreciate li…
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I start thinking about how I met this girl in high school. I said something. She said something. Ten years later, I’m pushing the kid on th…I tell him, thank you, but I’m thinking he was working on a mid-life crisis before he even graduated. Welcome to my world, I say, and I read this: And …
He reached the wire fence and tapped his beer can along the top. ‘I feel like I’m walking on eggshells!’The sex used to be good but that night they just lay there not talking. In the cramped bedroom at the top of the house with its depressing old furnitur…
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When we meet each other, as I know we will during the intermission, how shall I sum it up?Each of the projects I have completed recently has been more successful than the previous one. Each failure, however, has been more painful than the pr…
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No one knew this, I kept this to myself for 20 years.Mommy I have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and the reason I have this is due to the sexual abuse I suffered as a child. UNKNOWN BY…
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The problem is that you want to be swept off your feet. You want me to overwhelm you with passion, but honestly!” He paused for a second. “…“Goddammit, Olivia! Don’t you realize that I love you more than anything in this world? Don’t you know that I would die for you?” UNDER THE BLUE MOON B…
She's living the dream.I watch as she sips her wine and laughs. I watch her flirt, tossing her blonde hair off her shoulder. She is having the time of her life. LIVING THE DR…
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Annie glanced behind her, looking for Ben.It happened often, a reflex she couldn’t control any more than she could control sneezing in the spring. She looked behind her, forgetting for the tini…
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A tattoo of a flower on her left hip and a brother who was a draft dodger.We sat staring blankly at the TV. “I saw where there might be an amnesty,” I said. “With Nixon in there?” Kat said. “Maybe Nixon’ll get impeached,” I s…
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Daddy liked to rev the engine to the beat of The House of the Rising Sun.He screeched to a halt and my little head slammed into the dashboard so hard, it split my forehead right open. He didn’t take me to the emergency room;…
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So you get to go to heaven for giving an American a taiyaki because America and Japan were once enemies? Is that right?Suddenly he took a fish straight out of the hot molded griddle, wrapped it in a brown paper bag, and extended it towards Janie, “Here!” JANIE AND THE T…
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I don’t know what any of these people are thinking.Mark didn’t want to be in Kashgar at all. “I’m done with the travelogue. Let’s go ask about the bus. Goodbye Holiday Inn, hello toilet paper from your …
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