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  Bring Me Back to Boston

  

  By mercantile, New Gloucester, ME

  Where I'm from is a stumbling line dance of crickets and tractors, lonely lighthouses partnered with boats kept in step by the current as the people are kept in the past by the pines. Maine is maddeningly beautiful in its lifelessness, “the way life should be,” if life is lumber yards and...
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  Running

  

  By mercantile, New Gloucester, ME

  She's packed, she's all ready to go. Everything she owns is in her car. She's all set for a life, a future, that she isn't sure of, that was planned, destroyed, adjusted, and given new hope, that she has every reason to be at least a little afraid of. She's on a journey. She's always going somew...
• Fiction > Romance
  I Should Switch to Decaf

  

  By mercantile, New Gloucester, ME

  I want to like coffee for you. I hate coffee. I hate the taste, I hate the smell, I hate the way people get artificially addicted to it, like it's a trend. People joke about needing coffee to function. It's stupid until you see them without coffee – then it's ugly. But for you, I&#...