Two Stories

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Tammy Faye face, dollar store wig, she smokes Camels on the chaise while I root through her kitchen for oven cleaner.More

Ducksie

Ducksie

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For a sex worker, she was cheap; but for a prostitute she was harder on the wallet.More

Why I Started Feeling Better About My Accent

Why I Started Feeling Better About My Accent

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Because my husband Bob, out to sea with his maleness, will fly around the front yard, nekkid as a rabbit, as if to challenge me, and because my mother never thought twice about murdering a jackrabbit in the late afternoon.More

Two Essays

Two Essays

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People want to be sportsmen because sportsmen are rich. People want to be artists because of money as well. If binmen became millionaires everyone would want to be a binman.More

When guilt changes hands, the pistol becomes the redeemer.

When guilt changes hands, the pistol becomes the redeemer.

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You are violent / You are male / You want something other than this nuclear warhead in your throat / You want to be rough / You want to be roughly fucked / You want to be doing the fucking / You want a thousand dollar excuse for this ogre in the mirrorMore

JD Clapp

JD Clapp

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People’s behavior is seldom as simple as some moral failing. Things like family, poverty, oppression, tradition, values and culture influence the situations people find themselves in. Even the worst characters want the same things we all want—joy, peace, love, and dignity.More

Top Shelf

Top Shelf

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I went into the debris field and found a piece of her, ignoring the screams of panic and the shouts of police commanding everyone to clear the area. I thought of Leila’s minister who always said about tragedy and darkness, why shouldn’t it happen to you? Why shouldn’t it?More

Drunk with the Boys

Drunk with the Boys

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An aspirationally masculine kind of name, one that’s at home on a lacrosse team roster or a fraternity or a finance internship, it’s probably supposed to make me feel inadequate, but instead it makes me feel insulated, grandfathered into this world.More

That Time You Sought to Kill That Bastard John J.

That Time You Sought to Kill That Bastard John J.

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You knew it was an emphatically bad idea to maintain a loaded weapon in a house with idiosyncratic domestic violence occurring on what seemed like a regularly scheduled basis, but you never had a say in the situation.More

Mermaids

Mermaids

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They scorched the earth, burned bridges, left women scorned and mothers weeping because wind moves and fire moves and water moves, and even earth moves. And their spirits were moved.More

Our Friend and the Wildfire

Our Friend and the Wildfire

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One strange thing about Fabio is that when he smoked with us in the parking lot he would tell us about this demon that visited him in dreams. What was even stranger was that Fabio was also somewhat of a ladies’ man amongst the MILFs of Brentwood, Los Angeles.More