The Only Good Indians
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Read between September 8 - September 29, 2025
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But then he’d died on that couch anyway, not even from anybody else, just from himself,
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everybody’s been doing that thing they do with armchairs or end tables when they match: trying to push him and her together over in the corner, leave them there to be this perfect set.
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his rattletrap scrambler that’s not good past fifty, but gets kind of fun at seventy-five, if near-death experiences are your thing.
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When the whole world hurts, you bite it, don’t you?
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it would hurt her to hear it, and she’d have to go down to the high school, run around and around the track to try to stay ahead of that story.
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The assignment was for class to draw their favorite holiday. It was supposed to be Christmas or Thanksgiving or the powwow from the summer like everybody else was doing, but what Denorah drew is from when her sister’s team went to regionals in basketball the year before, the holiest day of all in her family,
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Elk might be tough and fast, Denorah figures, but they don’t seem to be the best problem-solvers.