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The Bottle

Part 3 A child stands motionless. He holds a bottle in his hands. There's a ship in the bottle. He stares at it with eyes that do not blink. He wonders where a tiny ship can sail to if it is held prisoner in a bottle. Fifty years from now you will find out, Captain Martin,…

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People Are Constantly Making Entrances

Part 2 People are constantly making entrances into entrances by entering themselves through houses, bowling alleys and planetariums, restaurants, movie theaters, offices, factories, mountains and Laundromats, etc., entrances into entrances, etc., accompanied by themselves.…

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"Ah, Great Expectations!"

Part 14 Sam likes to say, "Ah, great expectations!" at least three or four times in every conversation. He is twelve years old. Nobody knows what he is talking about when he says it. Sometimes it makes people feel uncomfortable.

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Molly

Part 13 Molly is afraid to go into the attic. She's afraid if she went up there and saw the box of clothes that she used to wear twenty years ago, she would start crying.

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Morgan

Part 12 Morgan finished second in his high school presidential election in 1931. He never recovered from it. After that he wasn't interested in people any more. They couldn't be counted on. He has been working as a night watchman at the same factory for over thirty years now.…

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Walter

Part 11 Every night: just before he falls asleep Walter coughs. Having never slept in a room with another person, he thinks that everybody coughs just before they fall asleep. That's his world.

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Claudia/1923-1970

Part 10 Her mother still living is 65. Her grandmother still living is 86. "People in my family live for a long time!" —Claudia always used to say, laughing. What a surprise she had.

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Vicky Sleeps with Dead People

Part 8 Vicky sleeps out in the woods with dead people but she always combs her hair in the morning. Her parents don't understand her. And she doesn't understand them. They try. She tries. The dead people try. They will all work it out someday.

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Doris

Part 6 This morning there was a knock at the door. You answered it. The mailman was standing there. He slapped your face.

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Calvin Listens to Starfish

Part 4 Calvin listens to starfish. He listens to them very carefully, lying in the tide pools, soaking wet with his clothes on, but is he really listening to them?

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Robot

Part 2 Robot likes to sleep through long lazy summer afternoons. So do his friends with the sun reflecting off them like tin cans.

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Maxine

Part 1 No party is complete without you. Everybody knows that. The party starts when you arrive.

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Voluntary Quicksand

I read the Chronicle this morning as if I were stepping into voluntary quicksand and watched the news go over my shoes with forty-four more days of spring. Kent State America May 7, 1970

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