James River | 21 June 2016 | The Vignette Review
The James River, unclean and indifferent, cared not a whit, and resumed its silent whistle.
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Podcast: “Rewards” | No Extra Words Episode #48
When I was small, coins and bracelets, rings and musket shot would shake out of my beach towel and picnic blanket when we returned to the Chevrolet.
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I was thrilled and surprised to find that long ago (30 years) in a land far away (Hollywood) there was a testosterone-fueled Tony Scott film that had a strong female lead.
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Nominee: Best Small Fictions 2017 | From a distance, upfurlers shimmered like a murmuration, gently hovered there, like some air current snapped a soft blanket below their soft forms; their tears plocked down, but wore away to nothing before anyone could know.
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Louis has imported a Javanese man, of Sumatra, who has brought with him some interesting methods to the crop. He says, “wheat may be wheat the whole world over, and bake a bread just the same in any place, but tobacco is as native as you and I and must be respected as the mayor of any great land.”
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“I often get this same feeling after reading an A.M. Homes or a Kurt Vonnegut novel: actions so large, so final; decisions all dramatic, all definitive; characters wrung out and strung out in ways that distill their essence.”
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I reversed along the line of storage units, chucked it into drive while still moving backwards.
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Hemingway wrote a Ballantine Ale ad in 1951, saying he kept bottles “in the bait box with chunks of ice” and that “you ought to taste it on a hot day when you have worked a big marlin fast because there were sharks after him.” Papa sure could toot his own horn for a payday.
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Degani is a master storyteller with a firm understanding of these universally important wants, and her stories wisely tally net costs of failing to take care of numero uno.
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