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Jackalope Wives

By Ursula Vernon | Jan 7, 2014 | 60 Comments | 17 min read

The moon came up and the sun went down. The moonbeams went shattering down to the ground and the jackalope wives took off their skins and danced.

They danced like young deer pawing the ground, they danced like devils let out of hell for the evening. They swung their hips and pranced and drank their fill of cactus–fruit wine.

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If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love

By Rachel Swirsky | Mar 5, 2013 | 108 Comments | 4 min read

If you were a dinosaur, my love, then you would be a T-Rex. You’d be a small one, only five feet, ten inches, the same height as human-you. You’d be fragile-boned and you’d walk with as delicate and polite a gait as you could manage on massive talons. Your eyes would gaze gently from beneath your bony brow-ridge.