short story
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TRAMP: This is How the World Ends “This Is The End… My beautiful friend, the end…” In the end everybody dies, nobody gets out of this alive” -The Lizard King Mona was dressed in a long loose loose-fitting black cotton blend skirt that stopped somewhere between where her calves ended and her ankles began. The
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TRAMP: ANDRÉ and AARON “I never meant to cause you any sorrow I never meant to cause you any pain I only wanted one time to see you laughing I only wanted to see you Laughing in the purple rain” -Prince André wasn’t called André by anybody except his momma and his wife to everybody
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The reason we walked a half mile to the drug store after midnight on a cool fall night it really is my fault. You see I write longhand in a black and white speckled notebook and tonight I have run out of India ink for my fountain pen. It is nothing special as far as
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TRAMP: Sunday, SundaY, SUNDAY “This is the end beautiful friend the end.” -the Lizard King It was Sunday, June the tenth. Aaron got in the shower and let the water get as hot as he could stand beat against his skin. When the hot water ran out, he stepped out of the shower and dressed
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chapter 25 TRAMP: Katariina Sapir Mueller – 2000 “I feel stupid and contagious / Here we are now, entertain us” —Nirvana Katariina Sapir Mueller, the unofficial punk matriarch of Deep Ellum street poets, looked up from the chapbook of her old poems she was reading as her bespectacled coworker, Bryant, tapped her on the shoulder
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TRAMP: Eat The Pussy Aaron, can I ask you a personal question? The big man in Dickeys and Timberlands, wearing a blue, black, and grey plaid shirt with only the top button fastened, his pot belly covered by a white wife-beater. Dion adjusted his large rectangular glasses, pushing them back up the bridge of his
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Isaiah Jones vs. the Sea (A 21st Century Odyssey) Singularity* Afia heard the doorbell ring and opened it with a smug grin of triumph. She assumed it was Garrett Phillips, returning to take her up on her offer, apparently having had a change of heart and now fancying a shag before trotting back home to
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Isaiah Jones vs the Sea (A 21st Century Odyssey) The Last Rites of Penelope Stockard Bedowitz: Taps September 10th, 2029, Santa Monica Pier, California When The Man Comes Around’ “And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, and I looked, and behold: a pale horse. And his name that sat on
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Isaiah Jones vs the Sea (A 21st Century Odyssey) Ring of Fire reprised* pt 1 of 2 “The taste of love is sweet When hearts like ours meet I fell for you like a child Oh, but the fire went wild” -Johnny Cash Long Beach Marina, California / aboard the SS Ariella — August 24th,