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What is a nice girl like you doing with an awful boy like that?06 Jan 2022 • < 1 min readThe apartment was like a stage set. She thought the furniture looked like Louis XVI but she wasn’t sure it was authentic. LOVE MATCH BY ANNA SEQUOIA 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 93 “Don’t be intimidate... -
Whatever happens happens for the good.04 Jan 2022 • < 1 min readBean whispered, you could place your hand in a ripe fruit and withdraw a beautiful afternoon. He posed like a peacock, his wingspan electric, glorious in the absence of wings. The hues on his face shi...
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One of life’s great mysteries had finally been revealed to her.03 Jan 2022 • < 1 min readIt felt less like the great mystery had been revealed and more like it had splintered into millions of little mysteries jostling in the darkness. FIRST FRIDAYS BY ZACH SWISS 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSU...
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We have to get up some time, she said. They were still in bed as afternoon shadows deepened around them like a scented sea.30 Dec 2021 • < 1 min readYour wife called. She wants you to know that she’s been thrown out of the apartment where she’s been staying and that she’s in a shelter. She has a virus and needs money for a doctor and to eat, and, ...
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What accounts for auteurism’s longevity? Well, for starters, it does have some practical use, helping viewers to zero in on films they might want to watch.29 Dec 2021 • < 1 min readAnyone who has ever seen a film by Alfred Hitchcock or Jean Cocteau or Tim Burton knows this. Their oeuvres are not only highly consistent but also highly idiosyncratic in look, in sound, and in theme...
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The phone was ringing and I waited for it to stop.26 Dec 2021 • < 1 min readI wanted to ask him how he got my number. Who did he think he was calling me like this after basically disappearing? What the hell he wanted to prove by inserting himself into my space? Why did he ima...
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Christmas Eve is when everything is going to be all right.24 Dec 2021 • 9 min read • 1 0You’re going to do this, accomplish that. You’re going on a fabulous trip. You’re going to meet a wonderful girl and marry her. The girl you are going with now will be wonderful in the future. No more...
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Edwin could go anywhere he wanted in the city. It was just a matter of changing the sign in the front window.23 Dec 2021 • < 1 min readOnce he got to where the sign said, the whole map of the city was at his disposal, and once he chose a new direction it was totally up to him whether he filled his cabin until the passengers spilled o...
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I got to get us married.20 Dec 2021 • < 1 min read • 0 1He remembered a place on the other side of the river, down in the defunct riverside town of SoulPort where drunks or just plain stupid folk could get themselves hitched fast as a dog can stop running ...
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