IN WHICH SHE TAKES A NAP / IRA WILE

God’s asleep on the couch, and I don’t wanna wake her. She left the show early tonight, stuck around for my bit, but left before some of the others did theirs. Normally I’d hate this. I think it’s kinda crass. God’s all
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KILLING / BENJAMIN WARNER

At the end of the season, they killed. Together with Mark, the director—though it was more often than not only Paul—Mark had paperwork to shuffle in the office—they made light of the inventory. It was easier than finding them homes. The chicks
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FORT PECK RESERVOIR / MARLOWE DALY

Ghosts sit at the picnic table feasting on chili. They eat the chili out of paper bowls with corn chips. There are no toppings like shredded cheese or chopped onions, though some pass around a bottle of Tapatío. Tiny flies swarm and
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YARD WORK / DANNY P. BARBARE

Love is like a yard. It takes work with a red rusty wheelbarrow, clippers, and a new rake to keep it beautiful. It is the root of all happiness. The flowering greenery.       Danny P. Barbare resides in the Upstate
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FIRE AND ICE / STEVE BERTOLINO

—in friendly defiance of Robert Frost   They say that even the universe makes music, a rumbling B-flat lower than anyone could ever hear. I think of God having a subwoofer hanging over the workbench in the garage. He takes it down
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SKY BOX / C. WAIT

The sky has never been as far away as it is now. There is an open square of it at the top of the stairwell. A blue summer day shines down from the box of sky, but flight after flight, it is
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LEVITATION / RAJIA HASSIB

The boy wanted to see the sheik levitate. He knew the sheik could do it because everyone in the village said he could. Sitting on the chair that they had placed for him by the window, the boy could see across the
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