Tag: bread
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Bread
On the television, a Ukrainian man sits down on the cold earth in front of a Russian tank that’s poised to shoot, and as the tank inches forward just a few inches at a time, the man scoots back, inch by inch. Like the tiny piece of a window lodged in the forehead of a […]
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Duty
doesn’t like lines, but will stand in one because those are the rules and it thinks we need them. It moves around like the ant, performing its tasks without question, often losing a feeler or a leg during its foray into service and reliability, neither of which will be replaced. Like the child who goes […]
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Giant Egg
I’m pretty sure that dark rooms don’t have it in for us. They have no way of possessing us, though I suppose you could possess yourself in such a way and not realize that, or perhaps deny that, in which case you’d probably perceive the room or something in it was haunting or trying to […]
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Vampire Bat
My student grabs his reading book off the desk and begins folding and creasing the title page in on itself as if to say he’s shutting down and refusing to talk about it, when it’s expected he follows along with the rest of his class. I can’t tell you how many people, children and adults […]
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Mallards
The mallards would scoff down bread with their long, flat beaks. My grandparents would give me a slice and I’d break it up and toss it out to them. I appeared to want the duck to eat out of my hand, but I think really I wanted the duck to eat me out of it. […]
the real subject is always you 