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Mother
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things.
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Or So
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things.
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Fiction
Bach, a Beard, Two Women
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things.
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Issues
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things.
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Careful
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things.
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Fiction
Politics
David killed the Queen. It was nothing personal, he said. It was just politics. All he wanted was to make a political statement about the abuse of power in the country.
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Birch
1997: Business boomed. Optimism was shooting up everywhere and bursting into flower. Music was jocular. Sport was effusive. Soon it would be possible to do the most wonderful things with computers.
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Above the Fat
His hand hovers above the hot fat — not so hot as to be spitting and scarring his skin, but warm; warm enough to cook something; warm enough to be tender; warm enough for an egg.
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Fiction
A New Face
I took a bus to the very tip of Australia, which, if you know it, looks like a finger pointing north. And then I swam or else I took a small boat, or a chartered aeroplane, to Indonesia.
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Sister Luz
Once or twice over the years I have peered out of the bathroom during Sister Luz’s gatherings. I have watched three or four of them, aging women in soiled habits, making themselves as small and inevident as physically possible, their bodies scrunched up and pressed to the ground…