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		<title>Suicide Fan Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Wallwork</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The old woman never put up a fight.  For this reason she has been my favourite victim to date, never once questioning the bitter taste of crushed Atenolol in her tea, or our motives for being here.]]></description>
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		<title>Go Ahead and Dance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Len Kuntz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine this: a skinny eight year old dancer, who doesn’t know she is one, discovering her gift by breaking the embrace of gloved hands and twirling--spinning and spinning and spinning--atop the wet grave of her just-buried grandfather.]]></description>
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		<title>Before the Mattress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie Daly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The TV has to go, that’s the first step. I unscrew the cable from the wall. Programs haven’t flowed through the cable in a while. I coil the cable and tape it to the back of the TV. My neighbor’s TV is loud enough for both of us. I can hear the channels change through summer-screened windows.]]></description>
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		<title>Unwelcome Guests</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc  Taurisano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sounds were unmistakable––a sharp, percussive slap followed by a high-pitched shriek.]]></description>
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		<title>A Kommando Loose in Maine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jaeger Brecht believed he could be anybody, and sound like anybody; he could preach what he practiced.]]></description>
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		<title>Old Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Len Kuntz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ He woke up smiling and that made her nervous because Randal was not a happy man, not by anyone’s stretch of the imagination.]]></description>
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		<title>Halfway to the Sky</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Segall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Birdies!”  Sam wriggled his hand from mine, flapped his arms, and chased a flock of gulls swooping down the family hill.
“Whoop!  Whoop!” 
I latched the gate behind us and flapped after him.  He giggled and led me through goldenrods up to his shoulders.  On the run, I tamped my brow, beading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sound of Just Rightness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry W. Leung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pattie has the TV on when I enter the apartment for what I hope to be the last time. She's been cooking with garlic and there's a sense of potato in the air. Water's boiling in a pot; there might be pasta.]]></description>
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		<title>Recalcitrant Jen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Travers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, C.S. sometimes you do and sometimes you don’t.  Jen Farmer had a learning disability.  It wasn’t the kind that one expects when you see that phrase.  Jen’s learning disability had more to do with how she lived her life.
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		<title>Two Fathoms Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though curious, be you kind to yourself, and leave here now, lest you ….”]]></description>
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