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No Place Like Home
I drove home from the store, where I had stopped for a pound of coffee, when I noticed a garage sale. A short fat Indian..
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Tonight in San Pedro
This time Carmen’s late even by local standards. I’m waiting as the bar starts to fill up. We’re waiting for the nightclubs to open, women..
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Lying Sideways
“School out already?” I ask. “The fish was lying sideways in my class.” “Yeah?” “A kid at school said it’s normal.” “Huh.” “He said fish..
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Deliria…as.is
I opened my eyes very slowly; afraid that a dazzling light would hit my censored vision and drown me in pools of dark water, the..
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Relief Patterns, June 1952
Relief Patterns, June 1952 Seismic gap: A segment of an active fault zone that has not experienced a major earthquake during a time period when..
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The Case of the VIP Towels
I “Shit, jana padega. There’s been a break-in in some MLA’s house. Tell me Begum Sahiba, why does this happen every time we have a..
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Dire Situations
When Mr. d’Foos-Fong told Mrs. d’Foos-Fong he was going to kill himself, she said, “I am at a loss for words. But of course do..
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Trio’s
You’ve got to give a little, take a little, And let your poor heart break a little. That’s the story of, that’s the glory of..
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The Master Carpenter
Charles Willett appeared both defeated and stoic while seated at the slab-table he’d fashioned years earlier from the choice reddish-brown heartwood of a Kentucky Coffee..
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THE LONGEST DAYS
Our mosque leans to the left. That’s because it was a church before the Tidesville Islamic community put enough money together to buy it. Apparently,..
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The Bandwala
Sundar Brass Band, most popularly called Sundar Band, had arrived in the city of Bangalore quite early in the morning. Their performance was set to..
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The leather bag
Translated from Tamil by Jayanthi Sankar She pressed the doorbell. One of the duplicate keys to the front door had been left with her. However, she..
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Bad Pet, Mad Pet
The long black hair of the vampire smelled of wildflowers and fresh soil. I inhaled hungrily, absorbing in every way I could think of. His..
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Museum Canvass Rarely Seen
The war was over, but for how long we didn’t know. The streets were filled with debris and fires. As we walked among the bombed..
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Sassanids, etc.
He’d been on his knees all morning the second day when he first saw her. It was the only time in his life he saw..
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Model Citizen1
George Tandle stood, patiently waiting for the 7:38 from Bunker Hill to Hardchester. From the lofty vantage point of the station, he could see nearly..
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The Strings
The walls were a sterile white, bright enough to blind. I kept my eyes partway closed, watching the nurses walk past in their crisp candy..
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Post Mortem
Kusum, A. (18 November 19–) Letters to the editor, Dainik Bharat, Manoranjan Ravivar, p. 5-6. Editor’s note: Printed here unedited, this curious letter and its..
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Shell Game
My anxiety went through the roof once Adam left. The cage I had built to contain my fears collapsed – a cage formed from the..
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Clearcutting
We had all these kids uprooting trees. We provided chainsaws. They sent chips of bark flying, catcalled to one another, egging each other on. I’ve..
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Needles
Mandy Bishop had heard a good bit about acupuncture over the years. She was, after all, fifty-four and the Chinese therapy had been somewhat in..
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Love at Last Dance
Traffic inches along the 101 Freeway at rush hour South of San Francisco on a Friday evening except for the luxury buses racing up the..
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The Village of One House
Last year, in the month of July, usually a time of reckoning that comes in the wake of appraisals at an advertising agency, I realised..
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Meeting Salim
Squatted on the ledge of his hand-pulled rickshaw, a man with light grey hair, in a chequered lungi peered at me as I looked at..