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Tag Archives: backyard

Acromion

05/01/2013by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

Most of the bones were still half-buried in the dirt. Stuck up perpendicular to the ground were finger bones and the spikes of the spine, a chipped acromion and a […]

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artifact, space

Aciform

03/04/2013by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

It was the early ’60s. 2162, as I recall. The Petersons had just purchased a sleek little number, a black aciform skyrocket, and Hernan Peterson parked it proudly on the […]

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artifact, memory

Acicular

02/25/2013by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

He waited for it under the ferns. Marissa thought he was napping, but he was wide awake. This time there would be no retreat for it. He pawed at a […]

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animals, run, space

Acerate

01/30/2013by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

A pile of pine needles, my breath in the air. Here’s the backyard, and the snow on top of it. Where in the white I dropped my keys, I don’t […]

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memory, weather

Accouter

12/21/2012by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

Tentative, Mugsy dug his paw into the shallow divot. He pressed his wet nose inside. The earth trickled in after him, after every hungry snootful. The hideyhole was suffused with […]

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"All the while I have been forgetting the third of my reasons for remaining so faithful a citizen of the Federation, despite all the lascivious inducements from expatriates to follow them beyond the seas, and all the surly suggestions from patriots that I succumb. It is for the reason which grows out of my medieval but unashamed taste for the bizarre and indelicate, my congenital weakness for comedy of the grosser varieties. The United States, to my eye, is incomparably the greatest show on earth."

- H.L. Mencken, On Being an American, 1922

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