Greener Grass
The one-floor rental where Shell was born is too close to the tracks—Shell’s the only kid around not allowed to lay pennies for the double-engined CNs to turn into wafers—and …
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Daniel Boone, By Himself
How you scalp someone is like this. Cut a small round down to the bone beneath the hair on top of the head, near the front. Put your foot on …
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The Challenges and Rewards of Re-entering the Workforce
Everybody had a target on his back. His or her back. Lists up all over the building so you had to look and see who’d bump you. Or whom you …
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Infidelity
Ronnie didn’t know what the word ennui meant before she met Charlie. More importantly, she didn’t know she was experiencing it before she met Charlie. One day at the salon …
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Somewhere, a Long, Happy Life Probably Awaits You
Throughout their marriage, Elizabeth has been known to wander
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The Eviction Process
We evict Champ first because we’re worried he’ll kill us. Even laid up in the hospital with one hand set to rot off, he could do it. Even fucked up, …
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When We Went against the Universe
Where we went against the universe was at the McDonald’s on the corner of Wolfedale and Mercer. On a sunny afternoon. Mel and I hate sunny afternoons. Especially here in …
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Cause = Time
Time = God
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Presenting the winner of the Broken Social Scene Story Contest “The universe is infinite,” says the woman on television. She is a doctor of some kind. “It’s like the monkeys …
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Oh, My Darling
Hello Vanessa. Such a lovely name, with that sensual V, and those three satiny syllables. Va-ness-a. None of that diminutive stuff for me. No Nessa or Ness or, dear God, …
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