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Little reflections of all the good that came before you flitter across your newly-minted self. You are a pinkened version of your...

When you dress conservatively and your hair is blue, people look at you. Timid (but cool) people tell you they envy you. Children on the...

refuses to come over. I know what I know. The woman is a witch. She even looks like one. Seriously. She's got wild tangley hair and a...

You swallow sorrow like knives slicing down to your heart. I want to gather you, press the pieces together, stanch the bleeding— but I...

Frankincense and tobacco – a sweet scent and a bitter fume – the mingled offerings of earthen gods. Baal. Dagon. Isis. Athena. They all...

I accidentally jaywalked today I didn’t mean to I was thinking about tithing Okay, I wasn’t thinking about tithing There was a girl A...

You love me in algebra— D + d = L to the Nth degree, and I love you in quarter notes— a fierce appoggiatura and a soft, high C. We loved...

Two weeks before the pool party, Wyler began a strength training regimen. For fifteen minutes every other day, he did twenty-five stomach...

You revolve around the sun, and not the other way around. Stoves are often hot. Knives are often sharp. Animals have teeth and claws,...

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