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“You name each noise: Jackie chopping/ watermelon, Deb slurping from the hose,/ that neighbour’s fat Chihuahua.” Read more

Photo by Courtney Cook

Keep your radio on—otherwise you might not make it home. Read more

Photo by Leandro Mazzuquini

"Life’s a bomb on a timer." Read more

Photo by Todd Quackenbush

“Now that we have all the right tools for the job, we can put them away for the last time.” Read more

Photo by Jamie Ditaranto

See the local sites, try the local kisses. Read more

"'Drink up, Joe. Hell is closed.' / laughing out the side of his mouth / Killing me the rest of the way." Read more

"My name is Bar, like the stool." Read more

"My house is the smallest oldest little house on the block / neighbors tour over and look down / call the fire department." Read more

The rhythmic churn of an unbalanced drum Read more

"In her dream, my wife said I abandoned her in the middle of a strange city forcing her out of our car." Read more

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