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My Dear Klansman
For about three weeks, Thomas has been working the gift shop at the First White House of the Confederacy, a museum and historical landmark in the modern age.
Louis Armstrong Cured my Sex Addiction
The first time my mother asked about phone sex services appearing on her phone bill I was fifteen years old.
The toothpaste / Outside of a dog
She does it exactly the way I would do it.
Intake Pipes, Elections
I found out about Aidan’s death from the mutual of a mutual, who still subscribed to Aidan’s podcast.
The Outside World
Dustin and I had been trying to watch an episode of Bleach for at least 30 minutes, but the onslaught of bass blasts from the parking lot had proven impossible to ignore.
Cold Play
Before me laid a pristine woman, the toe tag read Meredith Richards. 38. Cause of death: unknown.
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Ebb and Flow [Excerpt]
Mudflatgrounded, diamond-minds-racing — what’s it worth not to cut corners?
Pet Cemetery
I used to joke it was a bad omen when there was smoke rising from the chimney of the emergency veterinary clinic.
Watching Cement Dry / Cab Shorts
When I was 16, I worked for the Peoria Park District
and I had to get up at 5 a.m.
A Mercy
When people had a sick dog they called Pa because he wasn’t afraid of being hated.