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Impossible Tess by Kimm Brockett Stammen

Impossible Tess by Kimm Brockett Stammen

My wife’s sister plays all kinds of flutes. Metal and wood, tarnished and bright, silver, gold, a little painted thing made of tin, a slim jet-black cylinder made of stuff she calls grenadilla, and an antique glass one in a soft leather sachet that through all her traipsings stays miraculously unbroken.

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Laughing and Turning Away by Patrick Holloway

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Laughing and Turning Away by Patrick Holloway

The first time I had a gun pointed at me I was 14 and I ran home crying, and my brother laughed at me, calling me burra, saying I’d better get used to it. I didn’t know if he meant getting used to seeing guns or getting used to being stupid.

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The Anatomy of Todd Melkin by Catherine Malcynsky

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The Anatomy of Todd Melkin by Catherine Malcynsky

After seeing an episode of Law & Order in which a mother murdered her infant child by forcing it to swallow a kitchen sponge, forty-one-year-old Todd Melkin was even more convinced that he had a tumor in his brain. 

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