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“And what if dying is like / that time I got out of school early / because I had an appointment”
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“I spoke the least of my fears for him then. Although his excesses scared me, I usually said nothing against his inordinate feasts.”
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“They had traveled through miles and miles of empty land in the dark, a vast empty space between national borders.”
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“Do you know what it means to be glorious in a way / even God doesn’t see?”
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“every long night before I met you // every long night when I wanted you”
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“It was bleak, and I had no idea how we could translate it to a kids’ show about a talking monkey, but I was jazzed.”
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“Once upon a time, long ago in northern Hungary, the land of the Matyó, a beautiful boy and girl were deeply in love.”
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“I tried twitching my nose, but nothing happened.”
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“My real education during my DePaul years occurred on Monday nights at a jazz club called Orphans…”
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“She didn’t think it would last, this quasi-détente or halfhearted madness or whatever it was.”
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“I licked every word in the story, to know its taste”
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“Maybe the remnant tells the whole / story”
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“My teachers told me // I should practice, but they never said why.”
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“I collected dresses many sizes / Larger, dreamed of all the bodies crowded into those // Forms.”
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“Outside, harmonious cats / tread the pathway.”
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“From space you can see the shimmer / of the thousands of immigrant children / wrapped in tinfoil sleeping on the desert // sand”
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“When I got out of work a giant pizza was on my car, covering my windshield, covering my roof and the glass of the hatchback.”
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“my only scar from childhood / is a two-inch stripe on my knee from changing / baby siblings on the floor”
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“The lion tells them that he knows a field of green pasture where they can feed to their fullest.”
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“The next morning, my training began at Achieve English. In a week, I was teaching. I’d never taught anything.”
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“We didn’t think to ask / what we might lose, / what it would cost us”
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“I fell in love with a sweet-lipped / bitter-eyed / girl from Balkh”
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“Being a mother is dynamic, and the dynamism of motherhood lends itself to narrative,” Julie Phillips tells interviewer Margaret Juhae Lee.
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“We washed our hands vigorously after reading all these things. We wiped down our doorknobs and our computer keyboards.”
(fiction)
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“The rooms become increasingly more expensive, as one gets closer to the Abyss.”
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“I am doing well, but soon I feel / the rolling thunder of an evil rudo / with a toxic fanbase”
(poetry)
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“Folklore across the African diaspora maintains that captive Africans were born with the ability to fly.”
(nonfiction)
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“No, I went through one marriage,” Aunt Mildred insisted to the jury of her siblings. “I won’t make that mistake again.”
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“Don’t Forget To Be Awesome. Okay. Working on it…”
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“There isn’t any us, baby.”
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