Jérémie’s dog was smashed against the rocks by one of those enormous waves that had been rolling in all afternoon—there had been a change in the moon. The dog’s skeleton had been battered to bits and its head reduced to a pulp.
Two other dogs were found, some cats, and a few cattle washed down from [...]
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All fiction was about the same thing to Frank Wilder: the crime of his never having been published. Once a reader advanced beyond the great divide of 1945 to enter the furious stew of the modern moment, any novel, Frank felt, was fair game to be scorned. He thought often on the direction of American [...]
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We all knew the storm was brewing, just below the surface, because we’d seen one before—at least, I had—that is, I knew. Remember the absurd rivalry between ninjas and pirates, maybe about four years ago, probably five? With the wildfire phenomenon of Twilight and the recent publication of Seth Graham-Smith’s Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, [...]
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A girl says, When Julian would scream until his throat bled I’d think how I knew our love would endure forever. When I’d watch him shave his chest in some motel before the show I’d feel less sure. When the band would play “Righteous Soul Slave” for second encore I’d know that they would never [...]
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It was just something that he had always kind of wanted to do. By no means was it the only thing that he could think about, nor did his life bare scars of regret in its absence. It came into his head, this thing that he wanted to do, every so [...]
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In the Louisiana neighborhood where I grew up, we were always looking for ways to get out.
Barry Shinder found a way out when he was just seven, by jumping off a pier into way too shallow water off the Williams Bridge and paralyzing himself from the waist down. Chrissy [...]
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A gypsy once told my mother I would reach the pinnacle of fame and fortune, but would never know happiness, and perhaps her prediction was correct.
There is never enough sleep or enough love in the world.
I remember the taste of freshly-fallen snow, the heat of the blazing open-hearth furnaces, how excited my father was the [...]
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At a party, sitting at the dining room table, Jeffrey talks shit to James, asserting that he’s a poser, he’s wrong if he thinks he’s cool, and that, generally, he’s a piece of shit. James sits across from Jeffrey, nodding his head. Jeffrey loses his virginity to a freshman in his [...]
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