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By Lucy Ives“She is sleek, infinitely sleek. She is sleeker than water, for only my eye touches her outline. She is a slip, luscious as a basking fetus, supple as a cupid.”
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By Fumio Yamamoto“At first, the descriptor ‘Unemployed, Age 34’ had sounded almost like a criminal charge, but I’d gotten used to it soon enough.”
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By Fredric Jameson“‘What’s up with the signified?’ ‘Oh, we’re through with that now. We’re doing the passé.’”
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The Miracle
By Marlene Morgan“ ‘I said, you know, thank goodness it’s not autism,’ Jenny said, so exuberantly that it took Marion a moment to register the joke.”
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By Caleb Crain“There is a nothing sound that rooms make that is easier to hear when a room is empty.”
