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Appetite
And as the title suggests — as the eponymous poem bears witness — it’s essentially about desire, in its purest form, the carnal drive that motivates him, the all–consuming temptation for which we’re willing to risk everything ... 
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Blowout
Duhamel's poetry is admirable for so many reasons; she's playful and wise and funny and heartbreaking all at once. What more do you want from poetry? ... |
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Little Houses
But we're not talking about "real" ghosts, after all, are we, the stuff of Poe and other authors of gothic romance? ...
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Saul and Charlotte
There is also a potent mystical element to the poems in this collection, as Brodsky seems more than just to imagine his parents in the afterlife but almost to behold them so, like a Biblical Hebrew prophet ... |
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The Book of Life
Therefore, I read Joseph Anton primarily its portrait of Rushdie as a “teller of tales, a creator of shapes, a maker of things that were not ...
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The Hysterectomy Waltz
Names are important in this story. It is significant that none of the narrator’s family is ever named, from the aunt to the husband to herself and her daughter ...
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The Life and Death of Poetry
These are lovely poems that capture the feeling of isolation and beauty on a remote island in the North Atlantic ...
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The Whack-Job Girls
ZoBell brings us right to the brink of the breaking point, without pushing us over the edge. Perhaps that’s the secret of "The Writer as Rapist," ...
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What Things Are Made Of
In short, Webb is a worshipper of the material world, the only one, he knows, we can be absolutely sure of ...
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Quictions
Mr. Nipple Has a Secret
by Bonnie ZoBell
Everyone knew Mark Nipple didn't believe in UFOs. That's why seeing one up close on his way home from Giggling Graphics, his graphic design firm, he wasn't sure how he'd ever tell his family ...
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Quictions
No Way In
by George Foy
Pike jostles her knees and the in goes south, the "n" become a rivulet of blue ink that disappears into white ...
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Droning On
by E. Jean Roller
Brian McPheeters would have broken the mold—had there been a mold in the first place. And he was keenly aware of his unique specialness ...
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For Eternity
by Jennifer Juneau
They hadn’t seen each other for two years, but this is the sort of thing that brings family together. They studied their menus for what seemed an eternity and he drifted off into space before one of them spoke ...
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Jewess
by Mark Person
I guess maybe because she’s Jewish herself – and female – she feels she’s allowed to use it. I guess she’s being ‘ironic,’ too ...
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Camping
by Meg Pokrass
The kids were no longer around, Mark and Anita could wake up and read or bring coffee back to bed and make love for a bit... or not. Lately not ...
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Layer Cake
by Molly Fuller
She presses them together, pats them gently with the palm of her hand, uses a flat edge of a knife to coat imperfections with icing ...
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A Punk's Life is Short
by Nick Barich
Disorder filled his mind, leapt from his fingers like electricity, and set his throat aflame. He knew he had to make everyone in Winooski, Vermont know how this music affected him ...
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Ladies of the Night
by Paul Dickey
They always settled for premature judgments and concluded that he wasn’t a good catch, didn’t have an intellect, or perhaps a sense of humor ...
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The Mediator
by Bill Duncan
He said he was “giving back” after retirement, and though he had been a mediator for only a year, he felt his experience at the bank gave him a professional presence in a process generally seen as uncomfortable...
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