Image Credit: Holly Birtles, C1 Monsters Isle of Grain, Digital c-type print (2020) hollybirtles.com You should not bother to read this. You should likely close this book, and put it…
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Stone Cold Plumbers During the first week of the second month at our new house, the sewer line busted. We were forced to use the bathroom at a nearby Dunkin…
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MORE THAN NOT-SWEEPING Behind us there were sand dunes, and on the sand dunes were tufts of brown grass which made me think of those almost-bald men who thought that…
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This is the third installment. Act I was released on March 1, and Act II on March 3. _______ The script is divided in three acts, each of which distortedly…
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This is the second installment. Act I was released on March 1, and Act III will be released on March 5. _______ The script is divided in three acts, each…
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This is the first installment. Act II will be released on March 3, and Act III on March 5. _______ The script is divided in three acts, each of which…
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My brother is a superstar. Dad says I could learn a thing or two from him. He says if I stop giving every sad sack I meet a hand-carved spoon,…
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floods my inbox dripping with spoken and unspoken criticism your poem is an anthem by that I mean rant the last sentence cliché don’t tell me what to think the…
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Grow Up On the dating app Colin told you he does yoga at an Episcopalian church. You don’t know much about Episcopalians, except that Charlotte on Sex and the City…
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I should not have been surprised when the man sitting next to me on the subway started to lean over my shoulder and read the essays I was grading for…
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My dad had patients. They were crazy, and they used to come over to the house. My dad would see them in his study. Actually it was a kitchen. A…
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In the Garden of the Bats I wanted to prove to the neighbors that I had pizzazz, so I went ahead and built a garden of night-blooming flowers. With the…
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Whack! I crimp cable in a computer factory. Never successfully. No matter how hard I try to master crimp connection, the inspector calls me back and asks if I know…
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Delilah Reincarnated as Melania Trump Confides You don’t know that after the barber cuts, I soft blow the loose hairs from the furrow in his collar. Listen closely, trying to…
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