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On Bad Endings- “Most of us want extraordinary things, after a while, to quit being extraordinary—to end. The stone fell in the water. The ripples ran. Now they should stop. The surface should be smooth again” – via The New…
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THE VALLEY IS A DREAM
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My mother may she rest in peace would say that all diseases come from the weather colds and fevers and sneezes and rashes and head ache and heart ache and pangs of conscience and weak knees and back pain and…
Mother, in Love at Sixty
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Reason number one it can’t work: his name is Bill. For god’s sake, he hunts. He has no pets, other than two doting daughters, and his ex-wife is still alive. He’s simply not my type. Who wants to get married…
ADVICE FROM THE PREDECESSOR’S WIFE
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Learn Arabic—your husband won’t have time. At Carrefour Express, aisle one is the tax-free line. For poultry, go to Sweifieh (the Palestinian chicken man’s shop); pig, on the other hand, is impossible to find (frozen pork sometimes turns up at…
Quotidian
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“There is a great need in the cinema for truthfulness, but truth is not necessarily sordid and not necessarily downbeat. Unfortunately, the art films have dealt mainly with the evils of society. But society is more interesting than rape or…
Wife’s Disaster Manual
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When the forsaken city starts to burn, after the men and children have fled, stand still, silent as prey, and slowly turn back. Behold the curse. Stay and mourn the collapsing doorways, the unbroken bread in the forsaken city starting…
Like Two Negative Numbers Multiplied by Rain
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Lie down, you are horizontal. Stand up, you are not. I wanted my fate to be human. Like a perfume that does not choose the direction it travels, that cannot be straight or crooked, kept out or kept. Yes, No,…
