“Folks, this is your captain. Kindly take your seats. I illuminated that fasten seat-belt sign. In a few minutes, me and my girl will be shaking us out some rough old turbulence.” By Matthew Pitt
Due Home Any Time Now
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“Dale’s bloody hump ass sprawled in the street is my form of negative advertising: Don’t Hit Mommy.” by Martin Barkley
The Earliest Model
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Between Debates
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“Has a president ever shared his dreams with the public before? Can I be the first?” By Sarah Braunstein
Grace: An Excerpt from PANORAMA CITY
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“I kept having realizations, and then when I tried to remember them, or recall them, in words, I mean, I couldn’t seem to put them back together.” By Antoine Wilson
Dead Dad’s Club: An Excerpt from BIG RAY
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“Toward the end of the visiting hours, a woman who nobody seemed to know walked into the memorial service. She looked at me and said, You must be his son. She said, He left his mark on you.” By Michael Kimball
We Once Possessed the World
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“‘You’re gonna make our kitten radioactive,’ I said. She didn’t look at me. We called our baby a kitten because Cate said when the baby kicked it felt like a kitten kneading its claws on Cate’s insides.” By Cote Smith
The Lotus Keeper: An Excerpt
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An excerpt from a novel of sex trafficking and justice in Southeast Asia, by K. R. Dial, advocate of the International Justice Mission.
Smoke in Your Eye
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Walter
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“What did it mean to be a person in this world?” 3-year-old Walter asks himself somewhere in his subconscious in this weekend’s brilliant story by Sarah Tourjee. Isn’t that the question we’re all asking? As a parent, and as a person, this story seemed necessary to me, in its struggle to figure out what one’s place [...]
An Excerpt from THE COLLECTIVE, By Don Lee
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“A yellow dipper, a paddy melt, a Chiquita muncher. California slang for white chicks who want a taste of Asian.” By Don Lee
Mulberry, The Final Scenes of Act One
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One Pirate Year
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“My father leaned his head against the fence, the bleachers of Forbes casting a cold shadow over the two of us, and he began to weep in earnest.” By James Scott
The Mulberry, Act 1, Scenes 4 and 5
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An Excerpt from THE MERE WEIGHT OF WORDS
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When Meredith initially hears that her estranged father has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she says nothing. When Eliot, a long-time friend of her father’s, calls and asks her to see him, she hangs up. But once she runs out of ways to say no, Mere agrees to visit, reasoning that he’ll soon lose all memory of their estrangement.
Mulberry, Scenes 2 and 3
July 15, 2012 By 2 Comments
James Olm continues his story about Thomas, Bean, and the mulberry tree. Where will scene 2 take us?
“Straight men learned from gay men that physically affectionate, emotionally intimate friendships are not unmanly.”
These are comments by David May and Rick on the post “For The Love Of God, Please Stop Saying ‘Bromance’”.
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