The Dark Literature

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The carriage car baked in the unrelenting Sun, pulled along by too-thin donkeys and their too-cruel whipmaster. Skeletal carrion eagles
He awoke to the sound of violent pounding, could not locate it for a moment, then realized it was coming
I’m in Australia, or somewhere at the beachwhere people speak differently. I’m with a groupof people, we split into two
It was over too quickly. Bonecrusher Rocco destroyed Leftie Louie with a combination of blows to the body, then head.
You died; how awful. I’m currently overwhelmed by tributes to your artistic talent. Draped in purple prose and hyperbole, the
One thing was certain. He wasn’t ready. They were due at any moment, and nothing was ready. Everything lay in
Part I: Picklebrawl (Cleveland, Ohio) “MOUTH ON THE CURB, MILDRED!” Beatrice Goldfarb commands while brandishing her pickleball paddle and staring
It all started with a nosebleed. A minor one. Just a straight streak of red below her right nostril, marking
Ruth's Anti-Sonnet of 1941 What to compare her to, this summer dayOf June that reaps the darkling buds of May?This
The Army helicopter exploded over the zocalo, wiping out half the population below, but that turned out to be okay.
I don't know why I'm here. I don't belong. I'm not one of them. I don't scream and throw things
“Hush, your father is sleeping. You musn’t wake him,” Momma says, her voice as soft as the long-thistled broom across
Sugar-sweet memories are those that linger without scorn.They erase the sorrow of dark thoughts on a foggy morn.They are those
Henry liked his job. That surprised a lot of people. Working from ten at night to four in the morning
The interview was not going well. Andy had already mumbled his way through six competency-based questions, with follow ups, while
“All right… An orca, or T Rex?" "T Rex." "How about an ocean crocodile, or T Rex?" It was still
There was one house on Sleepy Eye Road that didn’t decorate for Halloween. It was a two-story, maroon house that
                                                                              “This mate is in over his head,” Charles says.             I shake my head at