"The hairbrush lay on the wooden floor beneath the dressing table in my dead mom’s bedroom in my childhood home, which was up for sale in old Palo Alto."
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"The hairbrush lay on the wooden floor beneath the dressing table in my dead mom’s bedroom in my childhood home, which was up for sale in old Palo Alto."
tinyurl.com/er9jyeha
"Winter came like a polar bear, silent and merciless."
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"Winter came like a polar bear, silent and merciless."
tinyurl.com/5fy9b2us
"Discomfort feels comforting. Numbness fatal. He remembered the snake wrapping itself around his body, mouth open looking to be fed."
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"Discomfort feels comforting. Numbness fatal. He remembered the snake wrapping itself around his body, mouth open looking to be fed."
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"Circus folk didn’t like to draw attention to themselves when they were wintering."
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"Circus folk didn’t like to draw attention to themselves when they were wintering."
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@kiptain.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"He looks everywhere for his shadow. It was just there a moment ago, staring back him blankly like it always does. Like it always did."
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@kiptain.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"He looks everywhere for his shadow. It was just there a moment ago, staring back him blankly like it always does. Like it always did."
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"Laura isn’t sleeping. Sometimes she experiments with pills the doctors prescribe, but they make her absentminded..."
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"Laura isn’t sleeping. Sometimes she experiments with pills the doctors prescribe, but they make her absentminded..."
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"You don’t have to believe, Maggie. I just need you to come along, said my friend Betts."
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"You don’t have to believe, Maggie. I just need you to come along, said my friend Betts."
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"Not that dream of teaching naked, gesticulating until I realize what everyone sees..."
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"Not that dream of teaching naked, gesticulating until I realize what everyone sees..."
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"We started eating meat raw. Steak with blood in the core, sausages peeled from the case. We ate with our fingers—forks were outlawed—and we licked marrow..."
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"We started eating meat raw. Steak with blood in the core, sausages peeled from the case. We ate with our fingers—forks were outlawed—and we licked marrow..."
tinyurl.com/4dw3959z
"Haylea is going to freak – I’m sure of that. Whether it will be a good or a bad freak remains to be seen, but I can for sure expect a reaction."
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"Haylea is going to freak – I’m sure of that. Whether it will be a good or a bad freak remains to be seen, but I can for sure expect a reaction."
tinyurl.com/4acrt3cf
“Are you still seeing that guy,” Sloane asks from her bed while rubbing sunscreen into the dip beneath her collarbone, “Mall Mike?”
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“Are you still seeing that guy,” Sloane asks from her bed while rubbing sunscreen into the dip beneath her collarbone, “Mall Mike?”
tinyurl.com/2uzu5hsx
"You wouldn’t risk losing your “soulmate”—your word, not mine— would you?"
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"You wouldn’t risk losing your “soulmate”—your word, not mine— would you?"
tinyurl.com/mr5hrdse
"By morning, we dug ourselves a trench. And hung photos in the dirt, old posters from our bedrooms, framed within the mud. We paced the few feet back and forth, crouching so..."
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"By morning, we dug ourselves a trench. And hung photos in the dirt, old posters from our bedrooms, framed within the mud. We paced the few feet back and forth, crouching so..."
tinyurl.com/4j8n5arn
and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.
"It’s been six weeks of the baby screaming, while he gobbles up his mother’s overcooked food, saying it’s just how he remembers."
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and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.
"It’s been six weeks of the baby screaming, while he gobbles up his mother’s overcooked food, saying it’s just how he remembers."
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"Each year, the oceans rise approximately .14 inches, says the scientist through the small, dented radio above Molly’s kitchen sink."
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"Each year, the oceans rise approximately .14 inches, says the scientist through the small, dented radio above Molly’s kitchen sink."
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"The doctor has put in two neat stitches, black nylon bunny ears sticking out as if the girl has been wrapped up."
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"The doctor has put in two neat stitches, black nylon bunny ears sticking out as if the girl has been wrapped up."
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"Did you hear about the Black man? The Black woman? Black boy? The Black girl gone missing? Kidnapped. From thoughts and prayers. From the news."
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"Did you hear about the Black man? The Black woman? Black boy? The Black girl gone missing? Kidnapped. From thoughts and prayers. From the news."
tinyurl.com/yswvau9e
"Mama can’t see me, but I’m watching over her."
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"Mama can’t see me, but I’m watching over her."
tinyurl.com/y7r4umhe
tinyurl.com/yz54jnyb
tinyurl.com/yz54jnyb
and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"My grandmother on my mother’s side was never one to hold back..."
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and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"My grandmother on my mother’s side was never one to hold back..."
tinyurl.com/ys97hdjs
"In July the air was thick enough to push back. You and I stood in it, early, before the sun arrived like a loud, brash fire."
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"In July the air was thick enough to push back. You and I stood in it, early, before the sun arrived like a loud, brash fire."
tinyurl.com/fsh8y5uv
"The only person standing in the tiny windowless club, I hold in any move to dance like a secret, battling urges to conceal or spill it."
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"The only person standing in the tiny windowless club, I hold in any move to dance like a secret, battling urges to conceal or spill it."
tinyurl.com/4ktyn5pf
"From the lonely sidewalk, Reggie the Hand watched a car murmur past with no one in it."
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"From the lonely sidewalk, Reggie the Hand watched a car murmur past with no one in it."
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"Everywhere that stupid backpack, at his feet during class, in his lap at the cafeteria, worn forward as he shuffles down the hallways alone."
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"Everywhere that stupid backpack, at his feet during class, in his lap at the cafeteria, worn forward as he shuffles down the hallways alone."
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"A woman circles the track at the YMCA after work, around and around like a mouse on a wheel."
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"A woman circles the track at the YMCA after work, around and around like a mouse on a wheel."
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