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Zoe

Just so you know Zoe was not hitting on anybody. She’s just a friendly girl and she and Jacob have a history so she has every right to touch his arm and ask him if he’s really happy but April … Continue reading

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Everything’s OK.

She is locked in the upstairs bathroom because she’s had too much to drink and she saw her boyfriend flirting with Zoe and they have something of a history and she feels kind of bloated which might have something to … Continue reading

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Top of Your Tongue

Yeah, you lost it. The idea that for just a moment seemed like the solution to everything a cure for blandness a recipe for love. You were on to something just on the top of your tongue at the corner … Continue reading

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Too Soon

She asks why we can’t be friends and I can’t go into it at all. I just say “Not yet,” and hope that it’s not enough. It never is. I can’t be her friend because I always wanted her, there … Continue reading

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A Dozen Reasons

I don’t know why you don’t like me that way. No, strike that. I can drop a dozen reasons why you wouldn’t be into me why anyone wouldn’t want me. Nobody is capable of listing my faults better than I … Continue reading

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Rules for Afterwards

If you hear her name do not turn or shake or sweat or show any other sign of tremendous duress. Do not let her get to you. She had months for that, why let her now? If you see her … Continue reading

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The Hit List

The pinpoint laser cannon worked just as advertised. There seemed no remains of him after all the heat and light had dissipated. There was no sign of the fine young man, a fan of late period Leonard Cohen and all … Continue reading

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Inspirational Words

Yeah, it’s no big deal but by coming over here at this very moment you just happened to interrupt me in completing a poem about you. I’m not angry but, see, I am distracted. I was in the zone there, … Continue reading

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Couth is Wasted on the Young

The children are required to read for twenty minutes so I have roughly half that time to write. It is like I am Tillie Olsen, if Tillie Olsen had a job for three hours a day and was not required … Continue reading

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Stash

I refuse to feel guilty for what was done. Mistakes were made, perhaps, but they were made for righteous reasons. The money I took was just money you owed me. I’d have already been paid if the world was but … Continue reading

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