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We made our escape on grimy streets under skies filled with crows, flapping like litter in the wind.
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You said it was easier when you were ten and could play Risk with a girl and it was a game, not foreplay.
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My mother was a child of the death camps, passed her adolescence there. Survived.
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"Well, I'd like to inquire about getting a muse. It says in your ad that you provide muses for people who are creatively challenged by their art form."
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The last time they made love she could feel the hint of pain and loss which would become her.
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I was sitting on the therapist’s couch in someone else’s boxer shorts.
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I found the knife in a fishing box in the closet. The box was made out of varnished wood. My father’s father had made it.
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“Your sister is a slut,” said Ma to me over supper.
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I see his look, his impatient look.
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And you know that notion just goes to show...
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Did we get Jihadi John?/
And the highway to Mosul?//
What’s the score?
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Paid and laid, they leave.
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When I was young I used to carry a butcher knife to bed. My grandmother placed it in my small hands before tucking me in.
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The stone thrower lives in a glass house with his glass family. His neighbors often stop in front of his home and stare at the flesh and blood man as he goes about the business of living with his glass wife and glass child, their glass furniture and glass lives.Every…
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Mama's good at finding things, but hardly ever what she's looking for.
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Tendering these stalks, making the pie, heralds me a holder of apron strings...
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He inhaled all these sensory impulses like they were so much illuminated, fluorescent pollen which jostled for space with the strong aroma of coffee in his nostrils.
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While Kate practiced the piano in the tiny third-floor apartment, Wiley cooked dinner, jogging in place in front of the stove.
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"What, you only like my funny stories?"
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My son, six, is practicing dying.
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... tomatoes swelling and turning pink...
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Class differences in New York (and if you believe F. Scott Fitzgerald, in America, generally) are best viewed from the beach.
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When I was eight years old, I stepped into / a snow bank in Pennsylvania and sank / in over my head
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The monarchs that migrate to Mexico and California in the autumn every year live for only a month.
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...fancy the idea of tapas, Spain an' all.
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i could make swamp boys believe / under dust-sheets stiffened by ice
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I put my mouth to it and said hello hello hello.
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Do you suppose you could make your female protagonist a salamander rather than a human?
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