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Skull with Laurel, 1832
Alois, awoken from your slumberand lifted from the grave like precious jewelsyour bones did taste the sun but once, unearthedby friendly hands and bleached to canvas white.
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Blind Date with a Corpse
My boyfriend, Alan, is driving. We’re on a date—a rare occasion, since I live on the other side of the state and only get to see him every six weeks or so. There’s also a dead body in the back seat.
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False Beet
It eats her slowly seeding progeny throughout her stolen body. They swell like tumors, shrouded, bursting just beneath her skin.
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One for Sorrow
For a moment, the fantasy feels tangible enough that if I can just lean into it, hold onto it tightly enough, it might solidify into reality. But then I glance out the window to check on her in her rocking chair, and where my wife should be I see a mass of black feathers, an…
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Goose Teeth
Gil never came to see you. You always had to go to him, scraping your pennies together for the cheapest ticket you could find, and even after that it always felt like he was annoyed to collect you at the airport. His apartment would be full of his friends, people you had nothing in common…
