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It was only two days before Christmas. Jonathan remembered his mother crying.
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The handler found Topsy as docile as a woman being fitted for a shoe. Each time he tapped his cane against her ankle, she lifted her foot and held the pose, allowing him to dip his sponge into a bucket and pull it wet across the thick ridges of her skin. It was…
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Topsy was a flip flopper ...
Topsy was a crazy complainer.
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My parents were married for forty five years. “A lifetime,” is how the rabbi at my mother's funeral describes it. The man says it with such a tone of familiarity, of genuine sadness, that one might think he has known and adored my parents all their lives. But…
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Bullets and cars can kill in the cityThe weather doesn't feel rightIt was hot yesterday.And has now gotten coolerThe wind blows heavy,And it's rainingThe sky has turned greenAs people sit down to hearThe news reports on the radioThe tornado might hit us,Everyone seems to…
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The storm grew in might until it spawned the worst kind of tornado, an F-5 or Finger of God.
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Seven black and orange Tortoise-shell kittens nursed in a crate the day Sue returned from rehab, to her parent's Atlanta home.
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The note was a lie, multiplied through each member of its potential audience....
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Will you leave me, you, the one?
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The blood from my palm runs across the rocky surface of the shell. I push the knife into the crease again, searching for a weakness, the one space where the two sides will gasp and then separate. You tell me it doesn’t matter.
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But you know what? You give yourself a fall back plan, you fall back. Not me. I am shooting for the stars and rising high. Next week, I start filming my first feature film. I get to play Tommy Lee Jones’ sexy little stepdaughter. Me and Tommy are g
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He introduced me to key lime pie, and for this alone I would have loved him forever. It was an innocent time for me, and I was easy to please.
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1. It uncurls in your hand like an autumn leaf but fails to recall your happiness. 2. A triangle is the sum of its angles a priori. 3. Leaning on the lens of psychotropics leaves you with restless legs and akithisia. 4. Body…
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She glanced up at his face and read the contempt in his features on the instant, but the page before her offered no such insight. Nothing.
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The rush of noise inside her head was making her breath short and her palms clammy and there was nowhere for her to run. She couldn’t fight. She had no reason to smash him in the face, but her hand trembled with the urge to do violence as she rubbed it up
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The only promotion I can do. Excerpts from the most recent book.
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His wealth showed best in her full figure.
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Naked, laughing hard, laughing full into the moonlit void, she stepped out from the stone
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Some places she knew better than others; some battle sites were more notable or more recent, and always the memories came back on the flood.
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He remembers his father’s concrete slab hands. Balled into fists they resembled kettlebells.
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If they don’t cover consequences in your gifted and talented program, you may care to research it.
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The secret government may run her like a pellet through birdshot fire at anyone where everyone is a bread basket or hooligan. He was in prison because he owned a gun then sold it.
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It wasn't until about 2:30 that my hairpiece began mauling small children.
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“It is not your shoes the Americans complained about!” Roberto yelled, sitting behind his desk, cigar smoke curling around his purple face. “It is your UNDERWEAR!”
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Dancers, dunces and brides-to-be
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someone left graffiti on the billboard
over: "God's a hard
act to follow"; the one that made the news
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Man I can hit a shot from forty feet. Snap! No rim. You can’t.
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You got a lot of people, out there
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This will be the century of infinite sadness,/
sadder even than the Twentieth/
with its expansive catalog of horrors.
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