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Nothing gold can stay.
I told him nothing’s the same after six months. All the good stuff’s gone. THE GOOD CHINA BY PAMELA SUMNERS 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 96 We dug out…
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Mar 1
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Nothing gold can stay.
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Listen to the surf. I could lie here, lie here with you forever.
Darling, you can’t expect everything to be perfect from the start. STARTING AGAIN BY LINDSAY SMITH 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 89 Aster lies there…
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Sep 6, 2021
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Listen to the surf. I could lie here, lie here with you forever.
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So, do you ever do drugs? I wanted him to think I was a badass.
Then the deep, soft voice of my Uncle Hossain filled my ears: “Azizam, movazeb baash kasi nayad too. My love, don’t let anyone in.” I HEARD HIS VOICE BY…
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Oct 1, 2019
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Everything, she thought, is an accident of where you are.
The desk drawer housed hundreds upon hundreds of cap erasers, stolen one by one from the supply closet when no one was looking. Matte and pink, they…
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Sep 3, 2020
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Everything, she thought, is an accident of where you are.
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I’d seen you before. Not you, but every other West Point-to-Kuwait-to-Some-Other-Place guy.
Not from a past life or anything, I just knew you’d be a guy who used to be in the army. You’d be from the south and wear a lot of button-down shirts in…
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May 13, 2020
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I’d seen you before. Not you, but every other West Point-to-Kuwait-to-Some-Other-Place guy.
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She had dreams, big dreams, and they didn’t involve driving around half the State of Texas pushing pharmaceuticals, and certainly not being…
She imagined the headlines. Samantha Isabelle Ayers, Junior Pharmaceutical Rep for RGI, found slain in Davy Crockett National Forest. Why had she taken…
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Sep 1, 2008
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She had dreams, big dreams, and they didn’t involve driving around half the State of Texas pushing pharmaceuticals, and certainly not being stranded in the backwoods.
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You'll be glad one day.
The luxuries they covet and occasionally pretend to, on which they have no purchase, are not material things; they are time—leisure time for their…
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Feb 16, 2021
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At 27 Carly was an up-and-coming artist. She had just been featured in Art News Magazine.
She struck a pose in the bedroom doorway for Angel to admire. The soundtrack was C&A Feel Good Fashion: How do you want to feel today? ARTIST BY ELLEN…
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Jan 11, 2021
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At 27 Carly was an up-and-coming artist. She had just been featured in Art News Magazine.
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The weekend had been going well until Hassan disappeared while swimming.
He was in the middle of a fast-moving tide which was washing him away. He swam against the tide but he realized that he would have to swim much faster…
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Mar 13, 2021
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The weekend had been going well until Hassan disappeared while swimming.
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I ran to catch my breath.
Then the virus hit. The world shut down. My job fell apart. I had to lay off my team. In a single day we dismissed most of the company. All the work…
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Feb 9, 2021
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I ran to catch my breath.
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His life was smooth and easy.
Manuel maintained the yards of more than 60 homes in South Miami. But it was the next 10 minutes that he lived for. Every other week he looked forward…
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Mar 15, 2021
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That was my car.
I never knew Rachel Stern or Megan Reilly but I live with the memory of them every day. Because, you see that was my car. I am the drunk driver who…
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Aug 9, 2021
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