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Nov/Dec 2018
The Wolf Girl of Terezia
Come closer, now, to see her. Leave the switch—your eyes will adjust. See, there, the telltale curve of her spine, the way the pink neon FOXY LADY sign on the […]
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Summer 2014
Moon, Moon, My Honey
My husband was in charge of the Nightly Improbable Joke, broadcast punctually every evening at 10:05 p.m., the world’s appetite for improbability peaking, he calculated, just before bedtime. One night […]
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Winter 2005
Riddle
It is the lieutenant’s first execution. Five men are to die by firing squad, and his company has drawn the assignment. He does not look forward to it, but he […]
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Winter 2000
The Human Season
Monday and Monday and Monday pass, all ragged-sky and midday-sun sameness, all closets and drawers she stares into. None of what once kept time works. Orlando! Her girl-self left home […]
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Summer/Fall 1999
Summer
Annihilating all that’s made To a green thought in a green shade. —Andrew Marvell, “The Garden” This is the summer of the black rose, the summer of Joseph’s Coat, Boy […]
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Autumn 1994
From Atlantis: Model 1924
NOTE TO Editors – The A Team kept this piece as a PDF. C He sees an image of the bridge springing from a remote past and propelled upward, spiraling, […]
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Autumn 1993
Interstate 3, Paragraph 1
Guy in the next car’s looking at him. Why’s he staring like that, what’s he think so interesting to look at? Some people just like to bug you out, especially […]
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Winter 1984
The Little Ice Age
Ribs Terrace Prepares for More of the Same The news isn’t good, is it. Sunspots, says Mr Wren, trade unions, increase in jet lag, Nostradamus. It makes him short of […]
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Winter 1979
Summer
From the Spanish. In the late afternoon Florencio went down to the cabin with his little girl, taking the back road full of holes and loose stones that only Mariano […]
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Summer 1964
Marmosets
From the Portuguese. The first time we had a marmoset was just before New Year’s. We were without water and without a maid, people were lining up to buy meat, […]
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Spring 1960
Entropy
Boris has just given me a summary of his views. He is a weather prophet. The weather will continue bad, he says. There will be more calamities, more death, more […]
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