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Baseball Zen: The Time I Almost Hit a Home Run

by Brent Short October 25, 2012

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/63158969″ iframe=”true” /] I mean I’d hit them before but they were the cheap kind where the kid in the baggy uniform in right field lets a grounder dribble through his legs, throws his glove down and chases it.

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Out My Window as a Boy

by Brent Short October 11, 2012

Click the arrow below to listen: [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/62799522″ iframe=”true” /] Across the mantle of night sky, a meteor burned in an earthward arc, a sparkling ball of gold dust extending out into a plume of rosy flame— a blaze carrying through the night, marking an unforgettable sign, its imprint blotting out a whole, far-flung mosaic […]

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What My Buddy’s Dad Told Us About the Russian Front

by Brent Short October 7, 2012

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/62793124″ iframe=”true” /] He showed us the scar lifting up his t-shirt over the gray mat of hair on his chest— a pale line where the lung was removed. Our commander told us we could surrender to the Russian army or try to make it all the way back with the supplies we had […]

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Back In School

by Brent Short October 6, 2012

Click the arrow below to listen. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/62795790″ iframe=”true” /] Daunted, silly, incorrigible, a class of boys and girls face each other across a shiny hallway, lined up separately against opposite walls, observing a maintained distance.

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So Cute

by Brent Short October 6, 2012

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/62798992″ iframe=”true” /] Just as the boys closed in on the playground’s inner circle, crowding in near enough to recognize each of the schoolgirls’ features there, they began nudging their classmate, taunting, “There she is!”

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