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Suits
2031 Johnny had never been out this far. He had never seen the mile markers hit double digits. It gave him a horrible feeling in
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Little Dolls
1976 David left on the Fourth of July bi-centennial in the middle of the fireworks show. Nancy had to give it to him, it was
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Milk
Thom Her body wasn’t posed. There was nothing remotely glamorous or cinematic about this. The woman was dead, floating face-down in a ditch next to
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My Friend’s House
Dylan’s bus route was a superior bus route to mine. 80 percent of my best friends in sixth grade rode his bus that went upriver
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Easing Into The Abyss
The dam was constant. That’s all it was. That’s all Ria’s life was at this point, but that was fine. She found the name Diablo
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Say Goodbye At The Apocalypse
I had nine more months to make my decision. April had nine days. You got notifications every day once you got down to the final
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Indian Burial Ground
Is it Indian Burial Ground or Indian Burial Grounds? I’m a so-called expert and I’m not really even sure. How does one become an Indian
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The First Cloud After
We landed somewhere in the desert. At least that’s what I thought. It was very possible the entirety of the lush and bustling world we
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State Line
Leah had no plans for her thirtieth birthday. She was going to go home right after work and reward herself with a frozen pizza she
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Click
My sister never called about anything good. Someone must have died. Probably Uncle Gordon. I had been waiting for that day. “Hey, what’s going on?”
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Can’t Stop
I woke up in the back of the greyhound bus coated in sweat. Maybe it was the 115-degree Nevada sun cutting through the windows or
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Allocation
CurTis absolutely despised the Internet Cafes. Between the bad coffee, the lack of proper air conditioning, the sketchy losers that hung around them, and the
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Practice
I wasn’t capable of love. Or was it I wasn’t worthy of love? Either way, this wasn’t going well. Abort. I uttered “abort” under my
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No Pain
Nate lived up to his name. Almost exclusively dressed in green cargo shorts and sandals with a perpetual beard and emaciated composure, he appeared to
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Man
MAY 18, 2021 I’ll never know why it’s so hard to find a gas station in a city. It’s one of those rare things that
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The Cure For Everything
Krist was living a dream for the week, even if it was someone else’s dream. Venice Beach. House on the canals. Neighbor was the guitar
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The Pass
Carolyn’s coffee had just gotten cool enough to drink when she was greeted by the state trooper. He stood in front of the barrier, trying
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Manhattan; Manhattan
Manhattan, New York The hundreds of people who waved to Gary on their way in and out of the parking garage at 6th and 29th
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Airstream
aron still had the program from his mother’s funeral in his leather jacket. He just didn’t know it yet. It had been a very mild
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Whitemail
The moment had come for Mason Smith. The tens of thousands of hours of practice, the pain, the blisters on his thumbs, had all paid
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Bus Stop
1998 There was a half a mile between the bus stop and my house. That half mile is still there, but I never walked it
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Planck Length
Scott The fight snuck up on me. I don’t even know how it started, but that was business as usual these days. Maren and I