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The Blue Cup
2023-12-06by Minnie Bruce Pratt Through binoculars the spiral nebula was a smudged white thumbprint on the night sky. Stories said it was a mark left by the han...
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The Blade of Nostalgia
2023-12-06by Chase Twichell When fed into the crude， imaginary machine we call the memory， the brain's hard pictures slide into the suggestive waters of the...
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The Black Riviera
2023-12-06by Mark Jarman There they are again. It's after dark. The rain begins its sober comedy， Slicking down their hair as they wait Under a pepper tree ...
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The Black Bass
2023-12-06by David Dodd Lee My hand became my father's hand that day， for a second or two， as I lifted the fish， and I could feel his loneliness， my father&...
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From "Red Foxes"
2023-12-06by Robert McDowell When she was younger Nessa shot a bird. She was playing Annie Oakley. Her friend Ramon Had handed her his Christmas BB gun. She rai...
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The Bistro Styx
2023-12-06by Rita Dove She was thinner， with a mannered gauntness as she paused just inside the double glass doors to survey the room， silvery cape billowing dr...
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The Bear at the Dump
2023-12-06by William Matthews Amidst the too much that we buy and throw away and the far too much we wrap it in， the bear found a few items of special interest&...
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From "One A.M."
2023-12-06by David Young You'll show that toad-eater who wrote Night Thoughts what's happened in two centuries or so. You'll make your yard the spir...
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The Bean Eaters
2023-12-06by Gwendolyn Brooks They eat beans mostly， this old yellow pair. Dinner is a casual affair. Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood， Tin flatware....
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The Basic Con
2023-12-06by Lew Welch Those who can‘t find anything to live for， always invent something to die for. Then they want the rest of us to die for it， too....