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Day two of SoTD’s showcase of Best of the Web 2010 tackles both nonfiction (“This Is Not To Say”) and flash fiction (“Glory”). I love both of these pieces, and I hope you enjoy them on your way back to work, or during, or after, or while napping, or snacking, or, well, something like that.

from “This Is Not To Say” (Brevity): 

“Or maybe it was supposed to be about the way water condensates beneath sweating glasses, or the arc of a bow swooning at a cello’s strings, or the Sanskrit assortment of roots snaking out from the hillside—the same roots to which we as moss-footed children lassoed jump ropes to and propelled down the hill, propelled through deep caches of dried leaves while our toes dipped below the crumpled surface into mulch.”

from “Glory” (Staccato):

“A woman’s hair is her crowning glory, my grandmother always said. Brush it every night, one hundred strokes.”