The Used Car Salesman by Will Musgrove

Used car salesmen don’t smell like their dealership counterparts. Doesn’t mean we don’t try. We douse expensive colognes and deodorants on our wrists and armpits, but you can’t duplicate a dealership’s newborn…

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Obit_v1.docx by Andrew Cominelli

Ella XXXXX, age 10, of Medford, died passed away entered the next life passed away on November 9, 2005. Ella was the daughter beloved daughter of XXXXX and XXXXX XXXXX, and the…

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New Frontiers by Ciku Gitonga

He got skittish when I called him beautiful. He would change the subject, talk over me about something mundane. He would come on to me like this: he would stand in front…

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Passenger Control by Anne Summerfield

Her summer job was to check off names on airplane boarding dockets against hotel rooming lists. This was so long ago that all documentation was on scraps of paper, often handwritten, sometimes…

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Two Dudes and Three Witches by Chris Cottom

From: richard.burbage@globe.comTo: will.shakespeare@stratford.com Subject: The Three Witches                         Hi Will Thanks for changing the title of Two Dudes of Verona. It wasn’t right, like Romeo and Cleopatra and The Merry Wives of Wimbledon.…

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Breaking Windows by Jan Kaneen

Dangerous things, windows — for their transparency and fragility, and soooo tempting from the outside in. I should know — spend my life gazing through them. Doing it now as I write…

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Bumping Glasses by Emma Colby

He is from Chicago. He tells me this with his hand barely touching my lower back, nervous to make too much physical contact too soon. His other hand is holding the neck…

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