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“Man,” Brown said, “maybe you think I wasn’t keeping a tight asshole when those Japs started firing at us with an AA batteryThere wasn’t any of our boats that didn’t get hit some and start sinking, and in the one next to us was the Company Commander, Billings was his name I think, and the [...]

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I felt doubled, like a man watching a man The dead twins had left a message in my studio – Where our sister? Had Illy been the sister they meant? I could almost hear the hag laughing and see her nodding “Are you here, Perse?” I asked The wind rushed in through the screensThe waves [...]

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“I’d take good care of it, amigoI don’t think it matters what happens to them once they’re done, but I also thought Kerry was gonna beat Bush”Oh, verdad, I heard thatWas it hard?” A thought struck me before I could answer”Was the storm hard on Elizabeth?” “Oh man, awfulThey always scare her, but this oneScreaming [...]

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Not sunset light but daylightHow it filled Little Pink and seemed to lift itThat week it was about the music from the radio, anything by the Allman Brothers, Molly Hatchet, FoghatCale beginning “Call Me the Breeze” by saying “Here’s another of your old rock n roll favorites; shuffle on down to Broadway,” and how when [...]

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“You probably won’t believe this,” I said, “but I’ve heard that word a time or twoAlthough I 143 have an idea that maybe your boyfriend “You got that right,” she said”But he can let out a pretty good gosh-darn when somebody cuts him off in traffic Dad, about your pictures-” “I’m just happy you like [...]

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Love conveys its own psychic powers, doesn’t it? “Nothing, honmy hip’s hurting a little “Have you had your pain pills?” 134 “ActuallyI’m stepping down on those a little morePlan on getting off them entirely in January That’s my New Year’s resolution “Daddy, that’s wonderful!” “Although New Year’s resolutions are made to be brokenYou do what [...]

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The sun’s out now, and it’s coming in the windowYou have a new television, the kind with a flat screenIt’s sleeping under the TV Dead silence from her endOn my end the wind blew and the rain slapped the windowsI was about to ask her if she was there when she spoke again, in a [...]

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In my picture, she had dark hair 206 and looked on the plus side of fortyThis dame was my ex-wife She was sitting on a rumpled bed, wearing nothing but a pair of blue pantiesThe strap of a matching bra trailed across one legHer head was slightly bent, but there was no mistaking her features; [...]

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It’s like giving up home field advantage in a playoff game I didn’t care about home field advantage; I only wanted him to watch his drivingI winced every time a car coming the other way looked a little too close to the centerlineSometimes I stiffened and pumped the invisible passenger brakeAs for getting behind the [...]

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She went with her mother, casting one more look back over her shoulder and uttering one more bereft wail before starting up the steps to her houseI knelt beside Gandalf, holding onto the Hummer’s fender and going down as I always did, painfully and listing severely to the left, trying to keep my right knee [...]

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