1907 10 5
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It’s a song you knew once, begin to remember now: You’ve had this dream before.
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1308 10 2
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...cinched the handcuffs.
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1273 10 7
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1768 10 6
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Rush had a black eye and a bucket of dirty water. Look, a baby turtle he said, like that explained everything. Yes, I did lack a turtle so thank you for disappearing for three months and returning with a goddamned turtle. His weird homecoming gift took my…
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1440 10 6
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a girl in a red cap
flashes by
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2199 10 7
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Going to catch Ma a fish. Won't be special like Tom coming home. But she won't have to feed it. She can eat it.
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1642 10 4
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The next day I can’t recall at all, a waste, like the flash of twenty years of my life, faces that pass you like comets in some erogenous unnamed zone of night, but they got me in some isolation room with my wrists in leather restraints.
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1530 10 5
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The washing machine at home was broken. It was an old leaky Maytag. A discouraging mess—twisted panties, sky-blue jeans, and an old lover or two or three floating downstream (the reverse of spawning salmon). Each man was slightly drowned,…
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Once with the lights flickering....
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1622 10 3
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Palms planted firmly against his temples, Travis paced the room like a caged animal. Giant black bats screeched in his brain, their pointy wings scraping at the edges of his cranium.
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2653 10 7
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I. Happy Ending? Why Not! My wife and I got divorced and my little dog died and I decided I'd had enough of Seattle, so I hopped a boat to Belize, and soaked up the sun and gained back some weight and, by God, I got happy again. And I met this cool…
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1923 10 6
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Now that I no longer sleep to see you,
propelled by this motion that is not magic
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1449 10 5
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You drive that '67 Ford PU down highway 73 like it's gonna take you where you want to go. Pig truck makes you want to roll up your window, but it's just too damned hot. You stop on the shoulder next to a sign that tells you not to, and you look in your glove box for a…
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1580 10 7
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Contention over market share/
is bred in them and we are cousins
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1918 10 5
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That Dagwood is not a real person but a story told in dots. That Blondie is a male fantasy and will one day find her Nora Helmer.
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1445 10 9
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The bird sat there some time. Several minutes. My wife and I grabbed out i-Pads and took pictures.
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233 10 4
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1522 10 7
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Dreams / of being a millionaire are replaced by dreams / of being a billionaire
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3183 10 4
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She first asked him to marry her when she was five, when 'marry me' meant 'I like you more than anybody else' and she loved everybody around her who was nice to her. And he was so very nice to her. …
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1669 10 8
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I bit her ear and /
it was burnt toast
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1508 10 9
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My student assistant was a comely young woman. A freckle faced blonde. She was from Ohio.
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1797 10 7
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Hurried, hassling suit in front of me is being awful to the barista. So she refuses to serve him, turning away.
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1648 10 8
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After his chemotherapy failed, he went water skiing.
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1942 10 5
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Over our short, yet enduring relationship, I found that he was desperately trying to reconcile his ambitions with his situation. I left and he continued to be unhappy, trying to "fix" what he now realized had been broken all along. In the end, a span of a
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1419 10 9
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Your tunamelt cadence / Sank me to ocean floors
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1077 10 9
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I caught sight of him standing near the nails.
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2392 10 6
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I'm rushing from the office, wanting to catch the 6.05, skittering down grey, commuter-laden streets, and I turn into the plaza and see the stupid fucking dancing couple. They are usually only there Fridays and weekends, catching the tourists on their way into Covent…
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1846 10 6
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1762 10 9
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2158 10 5
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"She has a lot of time to think these days. What else is a woman to do with the rest of her life?"
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