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"my point that / i is but a : colon grown / too long" Read more

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"The following resume / arrived by fax: One ex-military / man, 52, applying / for duty ..." Read more

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If marriage was a television show, it might look something like this. Read more

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Who puts those little stickers on the apples in the grocery store? Read more

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Scrape every last bit of English out of your throat. Read more

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Image: The Shadow and the Trace III by Brittany Nickerson, 2018, archival photograph.

Destroying books for the greater good. Read more

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"I never went looking for them." Read more

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Tell me again how long the trip is? Read more

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Fill the room with a flock of moths. Read more

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Photo by Kelly Sikkema, from Unsplash.com

Any resemblances to persons living or dead are purely vindictive. Read more

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Photograph dated May 1963. Sands Hotel Photograph Collection PH-00287. Courtesy of the Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

The secret is in the velvet. Read more

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Image: "House" by Noemie Lemasson

You can’t break eggs without making an omelette. Read more

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Use the board games you unearthed during isolation to reinvent classic games for our times. Read more

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Published by Ward, Lock and Tyler of London, 1869, from Wikimedia Commons

Here they are our people. Read more

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Cover of "Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School" by Celia Haig-Brown (Arsenal Pulp Press), 1989

The long road to decency and justice. Read more

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Cover of "Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School" by Celia Haig-Brown (Arsenal Pulp Press), 1989

After hearing survivors’ stories, nothing can ever surprise me. Read more

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Image: "Twenty Skies" by Alex Hyner

People have asked: What’s it like? How’s it been? Are you scared? Read more

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Photo: “Mud and barbed wire through which the Canadians advanced during the Battle of Passchendaele,” November 1917. William Rider-Rider / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-002165

Bud was one of the few who’d seen Stewart’s face as it was. Read more

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