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As I sit writing out on a patio, a terrace, in the center city, I stop and pause for a moment, look out into the distance. There’s a road with cars passing by. There are people on the sidewalks. Planes are crossing in the sky. All is movement. I do not at all regret being…
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One day my lover asked me, what place I’d most like to see in the world. Through my mind ran a host of places, pictures of things I’d seen. There were palaces, and churches, tall cathedrals and temples all over the world. There were oceans of the deepest blue, and fields of the most emerald…
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Whenever I sit and think of today, burgeoning with far new possibility, I say to myself, sometimes, young as I am, “Get ready for the future, kid. It’s gonna hit you hard. You might just in fact really be among the last ‘real’ people ever to live. What once was only talked about, is today…
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Shining tower, rising high to the very house of god. Ivory white in mythical hue, there is none it hasn’t awed. Stone upon stone in herculean travail, built in Shinar the land, tower high of but one tongue, rising high, like statue stands. Cast down by the one above, knowing it had reached too high,…
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…and Atlas cried when he felt the full-blown sting of all the good and evil of this earth cramming itself into his infinite mind. So much was said in anger, even fear, that Atlas became very sad, and to such a degree that he wished not to hold up the earth anymore upon his shoulders.…
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The store is a sea of dresses. Red, green, blue, black, juniper, seafoam, taupe; long, short, plus size, petite, plain, sequined, with adorned bodices, with plush skirts reaching out, voluminous, being tried on by eager women: white, for weddings, or every color you can imagine for a dinner, or a party on New Year’s. I…
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As I looked down from heaven, I was saddened much to see (from a place where I could no longer affect the things that happen in the world) she refused to take her six pills a day, the god-given remedy for the kind of illness no one likes to mention. She would not take them…
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When I was being treated for anorexia at the health services at my college, they made me turn around on the scale during my appointments so I couldn’t see the number on it. I had no idea how much I weighed. My doctor’s office also didn’t have a mirror, so I couldn’t look at myself…
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The fireworks burst, to the delight of all, in gleaming shards, in patches of color, scattered in the sky, against the dark. And where light was once, there it will not be again. The light more spirit than substance. As if just impulse, upon a black night. As if not really something: as if streaks…
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She came into the cafe to meet the man she loved. Her hair coifed in a tight bun, her dress framing close her slim physique. Her makeup was on; a hint of blush lay on her cheeks, faint color of blood. Her nails were done: pink she chose, both on the nails of her hands…
