Tag: 2023
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Pleasure Principle
The purpose of this exercise is to prove that red, at a deep enough depth,looks blue.*That light runs over the…
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Of Men and Dreams
We pause for a moment under the searing sun, and I struggle to see in the distance. My sunglasses are…
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A Position of Trust
Milwaukee, 1993 My only job that day was to be in the Dehaine house while the appraiser was there. After…
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The Potential in Architecture
The art of the possible in the ranch-style housecirca the summer before the sick cries of digestive mishaps rang out like…
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Little Death Livestock
The best lie he ever told me was about the bull on his grandfather’s farm, an atypicalcreature all the cousin-childrenplayed with, brushing…
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The Curse
“Roberto, not again,” said Josephina Burgos, groaning. “How many times must you tell this story?” “But we love this story,…
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End of The Year Junior High Classroom Address by The Teacher’s Assistant
Much easier to just be honest, tell the truth and why not;the worst that can happen is someone gets mad—Really,…
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What Little Remains of the Winter
The razor-thin, purple, solitary cloud has drifted away,vanished past the undulated, pitch-black silhouette.The upper sky is a spotless, liquid, cobalt-blue…
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A Tacit Prayer
You don’t remember what started it, but you were both chuckling aboutsomething that doesn’t matter,And it becomes more akin to…
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Pinning Hercules
Summer. The most dangerous season in Texas. Remy watched a praying mantis decapitate a brown-spotted grasshopper. The grasshopper’s body twitched…