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About halfway through reading some book that was supposed to be some really deep shit, I decided to write my own book instead.
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when women’s hair shrinks into tight curly balls and sits on top of their heads like scrunches of wool, blowing in the wind, hanging from the mouths of recently shot deer.
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Two giant greasy hands were working those breasts hard, squeezing and tugging and pulling. She didn't holler.
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I kept a journal
for so many years
I've forgotten
everything I wrote.
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Howard needed to finish this time. As his marriage slid further down the sinkhole toward divorce, it was important to him that his affair be successful.
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I am a shadow. Cooler than liquid. I don't need a container to take shape.
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Mama hung them everywhere. It started with just a few, in our apartment and outside on the brick. She made walls into windows.
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It turned out that my brother's newly acquired building in downtown Pasadena, was what developers called a "see-through" building. That meant you could look from one side of the building all the way through to the other side, without obstruction. In oth
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Robbie took me out to Fox River on his father's ski boat one day, as he often did — but this time it was my eighteenth birthday. That was when he opened up his robe and showed me all there was to show of himself, begging me to make love to him, saying h
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Overnight Robbie had lost his youth. But since he was still only nine and his arm looked like a nine-year-old's arm, people didn't notice much at first, until he tried running. Or if he was introduced, and they went to shake his hand. He immediately lea
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The man could be a total brute, though the truth was he had the softest of hearts too. A real gentle giant. But get him going on a drunk jag with too much ouzo in his system, and look out.
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But only to watch the boys squelched over and over — only to suffer the longing of a life I will never live with them while in the nunnery of honey.
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I woke up pissed off—like that feeling you get when you take a long nap in the afternoon. Except instead of being on a couch or a bed, I was trapped in a mashed-up Honda on I-75.
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electric zither
replaces wah wah pedal
so Isaac Hayes
can roll over
in his grave again...
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But maybe things could change, I thought. I’ll just try it out and see how it goes with her kids. Maybe things would work out. Just how bad could it get?
You have no idea, that’s all I can say. Take it from me. No idea.
Steve Bancroft took over my
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