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  • Johnny grinning on an afternoon in August

    November 15, 2020

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  • On Looking Up By Chance at the Constellations [by Robert Frost]

    November 15, 2020

    You'll wait a long, long time for anything muchTo happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloudAnd the Northern Lights that run like tingling nerves.The sun and moon get crossed, but they never touch,Nor…

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  • My Love Is a Mirror Neuron [by Elizabeth Willis]

    November 14, 2020

    Come in, you say while I’m alive, you say my hankering love my hunkered down love in the headlights of the future my love of the garbled soliloquy in the wary fever of my…

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  • Idea for a Short Documentary Film [by Lydia Davis]

    November 13, 2020

    Representatives of different food products manufacturers try to open their own packaging.                     from The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (FSG 2009) from the archive; posted March  12, 2013

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  • “Witchy Ghazal” [by Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade]

    November 13, 2020

    Samantha could make Darrin’s sandwichwithout using her hands. A skilled witch can wiggle her nose without touching it,snap her fingers to teleport to the Salem Witch Trials where her glorious foremothers were once burned for black magic.…

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  • Meat Loaf [by Mitch Sisskind]

    November 12, 2020

      He had been watching Meat Loaf videos Or rather he watched the same video  Again and again, the performance of Paradise by the Dashboard Light from  1979 or 1980 which was Meat Loaf's  Masterpiece…

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