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Two-Timing The Beekeeper, Timothy Martin

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Of all the unwise things you have ever done
(and that counts the time you threw the lit dynamite stick

On A Beach With White Sand, Matt Ross

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In trillions of years,
Every inch of matter

End Of Summer Session At The Music School, Michael Hogan

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Cecilia Hall is silent tonight:
no oboes, no flutes

Jerome And The Angel, Jennifer Anne Moses

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Jerome had two secrets, both of them so beautiful that he wanted to burst open, just burst right open at the seams, spilling himself everywhere, all over the floor

Exposed, Michelle Soucy

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This should have been a clue, an omen.

Barred Owl, B. J. Best

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somewhere in the forest lives a question.
ice cracks, wind whips, a child is putting

Undershirt, Donna Pucciani

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That undershirt
with the hole I'd like to put my index finger through

Morendo, Al Niente (Dying Away, To Nothing), Ryan Cipriano

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Chicago plaza, centered around a fountain
Beside which Stanley passed away

The Last Transgression, William Peacock

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August 31. Valerie cut her foot on a shell this afternoon and acted like she was going to die.

Autobiography, Pamela S. Wynn

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My parent's match was made on the outskirts of heaven.

To A Former Student Training To Become An Interrogator, David O'Connell

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They say pressure isn't torture
and, at times, because I don't know better
I'm willing to agree

How Far Is Home, Robin Caine

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Her younger sister, Beth, met a Venezuelan man at a wedding, where she was a bridesmaid and he was the best man.

Kidnapped At Birth, Buff Whitman-Bradley

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Every one of us was kidnapped at birth
By a man in money-colored shoes who
Snatched us away from our real parents

The Other Betty, Pat Schultheis

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Grow old and you'll become a stranger to yourself.

One More Time For Donny Deadborne, Stephen Roger Powers

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I'm a feature comedian.

Lines For An Absent Friend, Larry Rubin

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So you weren't there--the emptiness
Would have shattered me, except I know how atoms

Chicken-In-The-Pot, Charles Harper Webb

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One dollar buys a chance to catapult
a rubber bird onto a spinning table that seems

Counting, Mitzi Mcmahon

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Counting is important. Not that you're able to count because an idiot can count.

Grim Reaper, Carl Beauchamp

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It's only natural
A black gown
And sharp sickle

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Wraith Walking, Jason Coley

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

With this work I wanted to explore the space between memory and imagination: namely, how much imagination fills the fissures that run though our knowledge of our past. The protagonist, Joshua, has been estranged from his family for nine years and learns of his father's death while in China. But without explanation, Joshua is awaken one morning by an old fabrication of his childhood imagination--a character now very real--who accompanies Joshua on his search for a fantastical object.

Pareidolia is the phenomenon of seeing figures and faces in vague stimulus, such as clouds and wood grains. It is commonly believed …

Among The Stars, Bradley Cook

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

The left-fielder lays the boy’s things across the passenger seat: a jersey worn by the left-fielder two seasons ago, an autographed baseball in a glass cube, new glove. He folds the note from the boy’s father and slides it into his shirt pocket. Errands: bank deposit, clothes to the cleaners, a list from his wife of items at the store—bread, coffee, Capri Sun for Karl’s lunches. He sits behind the wheel and watches Karl, his son, roughhouse with the neighbor kid. His son is tough, like he used to be. Different neighborhoods, but boys can be tough anywhere. The left-fielder …

Circuit Rider, Kimberley Harris Idol

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

An historical novel set at the end of the American Civil War focusing on the week between President Lincoln's assassination and John Wilkes Booth's death. The backdrop of the story is comprised of the historical events and political figures that shaped this period in time in America. The plot is also configured around the fictional histories of three young souls, the spirit of a murdered Chinese immigrant girl, and a brother and sister who's home in the Appalachians was destroyed during the war. All three are escaping the devastating consequences of the war and seeking a new start in the …

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Karel And Eva, Michael Pikna

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I wake up next to Eva again but I don't remember getting into bed with her or how dad's gun got into my left hand which is crazy I know.

I Traveled South, Janet Jennings

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We drove to the coast to sip Black Russians. Cream swirled in an ice-
black sea. My name changed every day.

Young Boy Riding The Wave Of Desire Out Of This Poem, Ken Meisel

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The young boy who is about ten years old and sitting on the front step of a burned house and bouncing a small rubber ball on the charred garbage strewn sidewalk

We Are All Boot Makers To Kings, Matt Ross

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I praise the justice,
Raise my hands to the sky,