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Ice Cream for Two
“I remember thinking, wow, isn’t this so picturesque, isn’t this so magnificent, isn’t this so exquisite.”
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The Lurker
“I ran away from home because I thought I wasn’t special and my parents were trying to make me special.”
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Supernovae
“Sometimes it would end with go to your room but sometimes it would end with why are you so angry? and that hurt a lot more.”
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How Many Beasts
“When we pull up to Auntie’s in our blood-colored minivan, Olly is definitely gone.”
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Lincoln
“He wouldn’t have taken it normally, but there was a girl at Lincoln’s shoulder, a fiber science major who kept touching his button-down to inspect the weave, and he couldn’t tell afterwards whether she’d only kissed him because it was 100% cotton.”
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First, Nothing
“Let yourself age. Let time press through your skeleton like water, dribbling through your pores, let it sing right through your bones…”
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The Story about a War and Some Other Things
“Anyway, I’ve heard stories are supposed to have morals. I don’t know if this is much of a story, really, but I’ll give it a moral anyhow.”
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Proud, Lifeless, And Very Much Clean
“He is desperate for his dinner, too hungry to say hello, … he laments his work, his employer, his cold-footed commute, … he grinds his teeth at our rationed mutton and yet—the frugal bastard—gives me nothing, nothing, not a penny to spare.”
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Where the River Narrows
” ‘There are four ways to get into Narrows,’ Grandpa once said, leaning back in a rocking chair in his Colorado living room. ‘Two’ Grandma countered. ‘One across the bridge, one along the railroad tracks where you turn right.’ ‘There are four ways,’ he insisted, ‘but it took me twenty years to find them all.’…