Mark Cunningham

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Bog Beetle
   
  A cat puffs up twice: before it fights and after it's dead. Joseph Albers was a
square. I have no stable self, so I paid money and now my name is on a building.
The corn in the can is real corn, but the piece of cob is artificial, designed to
convince you that the corn is real.

Tumbling Flower Beetle
 
The sudden random scatter of spilled straws made her nauseous, but she could pick
one and drink a Coke through it. If you can explain your behavior, you can change
it. "It" here used to refer to behavior; now it refers to the explanation. The world
is all that is in your face. I put a newspaper over him, the man said, meaning he
put a newspaper over the bullet holes.