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The Ghost of King Solomon
“I tell myself, he is only a ghost; he cannot touch or hurt me.”
Salaam
Samuel Ashworth's writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the Brooklyn Rail, Roads and Kingdoms, and Bookslut. He has been a fellow at the TENT Creative Writing Seminars, and is in the MFA program at George Mason University. He lives in Washington, DC, and is working on a novel about the life and death of an American chef, told in the form of an autopsy. Find him on Twitter at @samuelashworth.
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In Pursuit of Prodigy: The Last Samurai and Me
“Books are the cause of so many bad ideas.”
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The Dancer Ascends the Stage
Our dance was inspired by a custom where women lay swords at their throats, and men step on them just hard enough to prove the women’s courage.
Saudade
We’d pull the curtains from their rods above the large living room window when we made love. This was when we were our own gods.
The Festivities of Dying
An old man walking by says, “When you laugh at someone’s pain, you’re dying inside,” and the model calls back, “No one’s in pain here, grandpa.”