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Long, elegant, with a touch of arch,
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It was impossible
that you wouldn't love me
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135074
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Somebody needs to call Frank. The pediatrician who fixes cars on the side.
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It is not unusual for farmers to see the future before it’s begun—but I am not speaking here only of the need to hope but more. . . .
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89774
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Life is meagre with me; I am unsatisfied and left always begging for __________.
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178472
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I pass the Grief Benches on my way to work. No one is on them today. Last night I saw a couple there, him wet eyed and her with her head down. She scrunched her eyes tight as I passed and I remember thinking she was a fraud. It's alright if you don't want
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Who is the moron that invented the Snuggie?
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You're on the Ferris wheel, and the wind is blowing just a little bit, and the sky is invisible behind a wash of white clouds, and your little yellow box tips when you look down, down to the fairway swinging. In the boxes below grandmothers are shrieking …
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178376
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"You know what a hobo is, my young friend? Or a tramp? Or a bum? Well, I'll tell ya, 'cuz you'll meet all of 'em in yer life and it's a good thing to know since they are each one of 'em different and the difference is this. Bums sit around and loaf. T
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138376
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Uh oh, the dry cleaning ticket
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145671
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"Take a chance, Bill," she said, "Like Eddie across the hall did. Tess told me he marched right into his boss and demanded a raise. He pointed out how much they needed him and they gave him twenty-five dollars more a week.
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150772
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Of course the man went tumbling, and though he fell not far, a falling with a body full of meats and sweet breads makes the landing something awful-not so bad that Desperate got it-only so the leg puffed like a blue, rain swollen, earth-bound cloud.
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135874
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They were
obviously having
some secret
beach affair.
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When it rains, I can really think.
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180375
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Pow! I shoot him through his jelly donut.
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My skin tells a story of pain and labor. It’s better than a tattoo and cheaper.
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85877
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Times were tough. They met out on the right-of-way on Highway 61 heading south, each trying to hitch a ride to New Orleans where they might find work. Albert walked up to her lugging a saxophone in a scuffed up case. Mamie had old cloth suitcase. After handshake bona fides…
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You don't have to push back so hard. We wore our hair long. We wanted the animals to trust us in their wild open spaces. Everything will come undone. We wore our hair long because we wanted to Be able to find our way home in the dark…
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We are all in big trouble. Here's some fiction to let your soul experience the beast.
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One day, Dasha confessed to Igor that she had an incurable illness: Purple emptiness.
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To understand how and when things have gone wrong, it works best to proceed from the beginning and put them in order.
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In the panic following news of my motorcycle crash, my honey fled the house without coat or wallet, and now, nearly midnight, we don’t even have cab fare home.
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I live in a small fishing village where small people fish and others gossip or invent bizarre methods by which to irritate each other. During our weekly power cuts I go outside and cross the street, sitting on the pharmacy steps to watch myself not be at home in the…
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103875
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Everything conspires to kill you:
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Francesco needed a magnifying glass to read her little missives.
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