"It wants me. It does not seize me, but it is persuasive. Another mouthful of water."
By TJ Heffers"In the village, ancient baobabs grow pregnant with the bones of holy men and papered prayers, and in the city, small boys beg, tin cans to their elbow."
By Ah-reum Han"Her: Mona, the girl with pointy front teeth that bore an eerie resemblance to fangs: an artist; an aspiring mortician; an ongoing problem."
By Sam Eichner"Didn’t people know by now that nobody was better at punishing Ellis than Ellis?"
By Kevin Magruder“The President of the United States is calling–will you accept the charges?”
By Sarah Marshall“Like my mother before me, and her mother before her, I have loved my share of men who are not named Joseph.”
By Kerry Cullen“Dear Usurper, You will find a dozen letters in this house. Each letter, each comma, each sentence, each period on the page is a curse.”
By Alexandra Ford"The first time her father came back from the psych ward, he was given tasks to occupy his eyes."
By Kristen Arnett"She guessed that’s what love was--making each other feel bad on purpose and then being sorry about it."
By Rhianna Reinmuth"Without the benefit of the diagram, you might just start clapping, creating tiny explosions that spread myriad pustules of anti-bacterial hand soap all over..."
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