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The mermaid washed up on our public beach in the early morning of June 19, at approximately 4:30 a.m., according to the most reliable estimates. At 5:06 a.m. the body…

Prosperous friends

by Christine Schutt,

The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear

by Jonathan Lethem,

I do not think I shall visit my blog anymore. It is not so much the smell that discourages me—gulls have skeletonized the corpse in the entranceway, and the lapping tide…

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Incident in the Oriente

Medea

The ice worm

Pride

The miraculous discovery of Psammetichus I

Always raining somewhere, said Jim Johnson

The hare’s mask

Hammer and sickle

Rangoon Green

What separates us from the animals

A brush

Multiples of Cohen

The war between Sylvania and Freedonia

please, thank you

Human being

New life from dead things

Mrs. Keable’s brothers

Rude

Broom

I like the fringe

Expectant motherhood

Give them stuff

Being stared at

Lord of the face

The return

That’ll be two dollars and fifty cents please

Once an empire

Mermaid Fever

Prosperous friends

The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear

July 2011

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