Author: Ben Gamble
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Ricky and the Endless Monotony
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“Hey man,” Ricky said. “Stuff like this is pretty beautiful, huh?” There is no point to any of this, I thought back. We were floating in Ricky’s above-ground pool, looking up at the stars. The pool had half a dozen holes in it, so he had a few garden hoses…
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The Devil’s Playground
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Shaking hands held the list of rules. My sweat blurred the ink. I took deep breaths. In a way, the noise and chaos were calming. The screams from the ball pit and the kids yelling at the ticket dispensers were like an Om, repeating endlessly on the path to nirvana.…
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Senior Thesis: The Migratory and Reproductive Patterns of the North American Waterfowl as Shaped by Rising Global Temperatures
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https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/echo/vol2017/iss2017/14/
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Bubble Bath
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The most important rule of a bubble bath: if you can see the blood, you need more bubbles. If you’re mute, standing in the shower while you wash off might make you feel a little empty, so you take baths, because no one sings in the bathtub. That’s just weird.…
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Cordiality
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Her third week on the ship, when her skin had darkened from the sun, and she no longer flinched at the sailors’ curses, and she had learned to keep her legs steady in the storms, Clarine spilled the wine for the first time. She froze. Her mouth widened but no…
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The Time Everyone Got Together and Agreed to be Really Cool About One Thing
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Once upon a time everyone got together and agreed to be really cool about one thing. Everyone. I mean everyone. They all agreed that there was nothing better than true love. Warlords put down their rifles and met with doctors trying to cure cancer, who all admitted that love stories, somewhere…