912 10 7
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You gave me all of the power, and none of the power.
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1950 10 3
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I scowl at her through an opioid haze. "Armitage Shanks is my real name."
The clerk snickers. "You mum must have really wanted you to be pissed on from cradle to grave, eh?"
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1080 10 4
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There’s not enough time because we come back to the things we never learn and forget them.
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929 10 5
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I am a small cottage up on the hill. Every morning, I open my windows and my front door. First enters dawn which turns the walls blue, followed by the sun laying straws of wheat on my table. Inside my cottage the day lights up the dark corners while the lamps go quietly…
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1493 10 3
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Occasionally I will pick up a quarterly—
As a budding poet, to do what I oughterly,
And peruse the pages for helpful examples
That I can crib or use as samples.
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1289 10 6
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gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour
and just getting under way
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833 10 10
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He steered to the roadside and answered her question before she could ask.
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1687 10 7
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Uncle Tee, a dog handler, taught all the camp children their basics: how to "make change" from a $10-bill, how to slip a hand into ladies' purses, and how to make their smiles warm and endearing.
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1390 10 5
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Two types coexist- the sanguine/
and exsanguinated./
My skin is cool/
and pale as moonlight
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139 10 11
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Children imagine dying all the time, especially when someone in their life, someone close, has died. Children's games often include pretend dying, flopping around after being shot for about three minutes, choking, falling to the ground and…
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1226 10 6
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The screen door slowly opened. I was expecting the second / coming of perfection.
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1312 10 7
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You stretch my heart / in sacred ways
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1377 10 8
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you drove by the woman standing on the verge the woman with the shoulders of a long distance swimmer and you told yourself her story: she'd slept in the wiregrass she carries…
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1660 10 3
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“No one likes an indecisive sexual partner.”
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1497 10 9
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Take a bird down from the sky, just for a moment, it endears you to me. Find a raindrop in the pouring rain, it is a jewel beyond compare, unless you Are directly in possession of it. Drop it. There is a star that I cannot help seeing In the…
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1605 10 5
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Freshly fucked,
Shirley exhaled enjoying the lingering sensations. She always felt lighter after a good orgasm, and this had been one for the record books.
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1352 10 3
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I am going to quit clicking refresh, only because it is clear nothing is happening out there. After I click refresh just one more time, that is, and then I am closing the window. After clicking one more last time. …
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1865 10 4
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3D is killing my porn career.
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1615 10 6
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In the small hours, when the crackling of the embers had stopped and the room had gone cold, the boiler kicked in and the pipes began to clang. He was half-roused out of his sleep, and then slipped under again to dream of Marley's fettered ghost.
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1551 10 3
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Kitchen.
sandwich.
wife.
daughter.
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1703 10 7
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The Muse stands at the summit of a paragraph playing with a yo-yo.
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1831 10 5
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It’s a bitch of a day, devious. It started out calm and then those monsoon showers hit. The lads legged it back to the vans for a bit of a warm sup. He was going to follow them. The rain machine-gunned the window.
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1668 10 5
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Rounding a corner, Clarissa wiped out and hit the floor chin-first. She wailed and the dildos skittered away under a display.
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1171 10 4
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808 10 4
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amphibians returning to the scene of the crime
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1625 10 1
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Loving you, I always knew, was a job I’d only get via a dead woman’s shoes. There you were, the recipient of pot roasts, fresh bread, at a loss amongst neighbourhood widows and divorcees. A tide of them rolled over you in calico blouses, cut off jeans
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1758 10 3
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He wanted me to learn the business, to become the son he always wanted but never had. I eagerly complied.
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1315 10 10
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I dreamt I was raped the other night. Sometimes it was me, that is, and sometimes it was another woman with a dark bouffant hair-do. Definitely outside though and the hulking back of the man was covered by a charcoal wool…
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1605 10 9
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It was all I was convinced / in designing the encounter.
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1468 10 6
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If you're a Boomer, your brain is teaming with decades-old Pop tunes that you just can't forget. The real reason you can never remember where you put your keys? Too many of your brain cells are clinging to every last lyric to “Fire and Rain,” “Free…
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