Subway Leo and the Poster Girls

Leo watched his hands, sitting on a series of green chairs attached to the subway wall, waiting for one of the poster girls to lick his back again.

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Parking Meter

The parking meter shot up out of the ground and into the air, dragging roots of pavement in its wake. Sam swallowed his cigarette and began to choke, while Julia stared up into the air, the rain falling over the umbrella's edge.

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To Lift A Car, Draft

Sunnyshine a.m. was the heure de cloche, and Jane lay gravity-pressed to the grass in the field. And this far from highways and houses brought the buzzings and hoppings of field mice and stink bugs to higher-volumed life. A circle of grass, and an edge-wall of trees. The cascade of sun. Light wind, the kind you run between thumb and finger, tuning all the grass and Western Redceders to discordant notes.

Her cat, Roscoe, was biting the heads off nearby dandelions, collecting them all into a pile. She would aproach a flower on all fours, sliding one limb in front of the other, then snap forward, disengage the flowerhead, and trot back to the pile, which had now grown to a foot in heighth.

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Backroads, A Draft

This is what happened when George tried to start the car.

He was all set to begin a cross-country tour de force, had all his maps stacked atop one another in a lockable, leather briefcase he bought from an antique store, a bag of clothes and camping gear all rolled up into a duffel bag that was tossed into the back, and a stack of cd's -- turn of the century recordings of Mahler and Beethoven -- shuffling underneath a water bottle that would hopefully slide with the turns and ups and downs of the road. To give that jangly feeling to the front cab.

There was nothing extraordinary about the keys, and he had just checked the oil not but moments before.

But when he turned the key, and crested over the hill, he saw blades of grass sneaking out from underneath the hood; then he hit a bump, some worn-out chip in the concrete, and the trunk popped open and there were the flowers. A garden had grew in his trunk while he was driving.

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