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The Best of the Web 2010
No, it's not dated! The debate about online versus print publications has largely been put to rest by now. True, there’s a lot of dreck out there in cyberspace, but that’s always been true about print media as well ... 
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Ka-Ching!
Over the course of the collection, Duhamel also tells the story of her parents’ bad fortune. Ka-Ching! is dedicated to her parents; her father had recently passed away when this book was published. ... |
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Speech Acts
According to poet Laura McCullough, a man tells her he doesn’t trust women who give blow jobs; they’re all about control, he maintains ... |
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Rabbi Auschwitz
The poems in Rabbi Auschwitz by L.D. Brodsky all have the vertiginous, off-balance quality of nightmares . Editor Charles R. tells it straight ...
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Wake-Up Time For America
"I'll try to sum up the current economic and political situation in a few paragraphs, because the trends are becoming on one hand obvious, but on the other hand obfuscated by mainstream media." Thompson speaks! ... |
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How Can We Make Your Power More Comfortable?
Norman Ball is not partisan, neither Republican nor Democrat; all are fair game. Identifying himself in one essay only as a “social libertarian” ... Ball seems to admire the philosophical insights of Any Rand, but he’s no acolyte ... |
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The Enemy of Good is Better
Michael Salcman often thinks about the body from the inside out; there are as many references to the guts as to the outward human form. Sex is finally lust, even in its love-fraught and love-lost physicality ...
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Useful Gifts
As adults we must put away our childish things and be more acted upon than acting. Useful Gifts by Carol Glickfeld is a worthy collection ...
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Wouldn't You Like to Know
Wouldn't You Like to Know by Pamela Painter has a story to suit almost every reader's taste, making the collection perfect entertainment for multi-tasking, 21st century adults with Attention Deficit Disorder ...
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Corporate Linguistics
"A lot of questionable language passes through a corporation each day, and I'm not talking about cussing, although thankfully there is plenty of that in some workplaces as well." Apryl Lamb corp-speaks ... |
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Quictions
Battle of Bennington
by Margaret Gilbert
The butler said a crowd of people gathered around me until the Police came. He didn’t say how long that took, how long I lay on the ground, bleeding. ...
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Quictions
French Lesson
by Michele Ruby
Being very careful not to further injure her foot, he makes gentle, awkward love to her, murmuring the only French words he knows: quiche, mousse, brioche, camembert, éclair ...
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Put Your Shoes On and Get Out
by Pat Stansberry
You’ve evaded this confrontation, kept it at bay. Now she’s cleared the path in both directions, in and out, soft and hard. Standing still is no longer an option ...
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Preferred Reality
by Austin Bruce Hallock
He hurried down a side street and then into an alley. An alley, of all things! Wasn't that where thieves always retreated? If he were noticed here, in his old T-shirt and carrying a plump briefcase, wouldn't he appear even more suspicious? ...
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Rattlers
by Brad Rose
The two of us, tighter than a tourniquet, sat in the car and traded serried accusations, back and forth, like switchbacks plummeting into a deep ravine ...
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Something to do While He Waited
by CL Bledsoe
They chitchatted while customers zoomed by in the other aisles, pausing for the millisecond it took the store cameras to scan their purchases and electronically deduct their value from the customers’ accounts...
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Tender is the Night
by Jen Michalski
On the top bunk, Alex writes Matt letters while lying on her stomach. She signs them “Tender is the night—Alex.” ...
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The Safety Wife
by Nina Badzin
Stop it, she told herself, knowing she was pathetic for clinging to his attention, for pretending the flashes of intimacy amounted to anything more than an overly friendly nod...
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Like Water from Cactus
by Brett Alan Sanders
Later I hear how it all went down. Boy got a little too saucy. Cactus juice dripping down his chinny-chin-chin from that nopalito taco, you get the picture ...
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Zombie is the New Vampire
by Eric Goodman
Maybe it wasn’t ripe-the dude from the strip-mall bar was a numbskull. Maybe if she saved it, cooked it at home. Maybe the library had a book on cooking pig brain or cow brain...
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