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Story #10: "The Knuckleball Artist" (Chapter 10)
A shaving cream commercial, a slugger in a red dress, the Iowa Speedway, peeing under pressure, the dandelion plains of right field and Babe Ruth…
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Adam Nathan
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best words, best order: anonymous
an excerpt from Notes from Treatment, a bristling collection of essays dedicated to the patients of a treatment center. these essays were published…
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Adam Nathan
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Anonymous
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Tommy Swerdlow
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Story #10: "The Knuckleball Artist" (Chapter 9)
Forgotten dollar bills, delivering a lamb, a purple umbrella, a depressed English bulldog, a highway billboard, two defensive innings, dashboard lights…
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Staring at One Picture for Thirty Minutes
I went to the Met and spent thirty minutes staring at a single work of art without breaking eye contact. This is what I saw there.
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Story #10: "The Knuckleball Artist" (Chapter 8)
Licking your shoelaces. A quarter-a-mile-per-hour skid. A runaway lawn sprinkler. Three sweaters at the same time. A baseball cemetery. A barnyard owl…
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best words, best order: chloe hope
an excerpt from the essay "nesting" by chloe hope
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Chloe Hope
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Kimberly Warner
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Story #10: "The Knuckleball Artist" (Chapter 7)
A pet store aquarium. A grocery store lobster tank. A beach in Mexico. A lily-pad frog. Beach balls in a hurricane. Popcorn in the wind, and breeze over…
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