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Allen Maa

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The Disappeared Kingdom

Weekly Contest #47

The older sheiks had gathered to smoke in the pristine veranda, mumbling conspiratorially and dowsing one another in the cologne they scrambled from customs before the planes left. We women held babies and cracked jokes about the intermittent electricity and the problem with high end high powered blow dryers in these times. Now, we aren’t stupid women who talk about these things but we had exhausted all the topics that truly matter. I kept thinking of Boston and the cold air and rough men I loved while in university. Unlike my mother‘s - m...

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They Won’t Fly

Right around the time when Americans were inspired by sending men to the moon and deeply afraid of their Soviet nemesis, when young people learned to dance from blacks and blacks drank the water they wanted for the first time - we were sunburnt and confused farming potatoes in Nebraska. Christ was mostly relegated to Sundays and appeared on deathbed watch or as part of the admonishment team when girls dresses were to high and boys touched themselves. I was too handsome for a small town and folks were sure I’d have an accident or somehow be d...

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