2238 22 17
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Mama reads about UFOs in paperback books and newspapers with big cloudy pictures. Her girlfriends know about flying saucers, too. They get drunk at night when they are sitting all alone in their living rooms because they are divorced or married to men who
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1526 22 14
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I thought each day died inside the clock.
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1581 22 16
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Maybe she would get married and have a baby, she said. Not with me, I said
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1397 22 16
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They come to mind/
like ice flowers/
on the small panes
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1500 22 8
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The eggs got badder as the cook got madder
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2307 22 15
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Dear End of the World. We're having a party. Stop by if you're in the neighborhood.
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1608 22 15
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The river’s not/
a river but/
a FEMA map/
of flooding probabilities.
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1462 22 10
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Mabel constructed the quintessential boundary. She carefully boiled down her pots and pans, her jewelry, her copper kettle, and the foils from forty six bottles of white pear cider into a silky metallic stew. Mable smeared the mixture onto a burlap…
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1975 22 21
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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.
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2086 22 17
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It was war without beginning or end.
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2693 22 10
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“Just curious,” Sean says, “but what’s up with the old Pinto out front?”
She looks at him. “It’s my boyfriend’s.” Her green eyes are flat: What business of yours?
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1409 22 14
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Over the years, his face
began to alter
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3346 22 21
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I fell into a crevasse once.
I jumped off a bridge once, right before a train was to hit me.
Jumped off roofs several times.
I have a thing for jumping.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to nachos.
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3894 22 17
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2141 22 8
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"...when my daddy found out about Jasper, it was too late— mama was already round-&-radiant with Jasper's child. "
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1245 22 10
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7:23. The grid abandons us.
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1964 22 15
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There's a mutual recognition...
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2735 22 12
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When I was sixteen, my dad’s new wife and her daughter, Mary Ann, moved in, so I had to get out. I found a burned-out one story place on Corey Road near the gas plant. When it wasn’t raining, you could see right up through the roof to the stars.
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1768 22 21
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1975 22 18
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How to not be a redneck? Basically, it is a matter of volume, ancestor worship, respect for the truth and a command of the English language.
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1505 22 12
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I liked the taste in my mouth, mint and cigarettes and fresh and filthy.
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2530 22 13
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When you live in New Orleans, the only time you ever get to see cows is at the Winn-Dixie 24 Hour Super Store, in the back between the dairy and the seafood.
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2141 22 7
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The first thing she remembers is sunshine, then her own dawning, and feeling the lumps on her head and bruises on her face and pain in her heart and aloness of her soul.
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2722 22 18
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He stands at the 53 bus stop, boy shadow dust-cloaked and fading, jangling her keys in his pocket, echoes of a journey cut short.
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1930 22 13
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Pretty boy looks over at me and grins, got a smoke?
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1690 22 8
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"Ha ha!" I said triumphantly, "I've got some left and you don't!"
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1987 22 20
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Paris was a better place for African Americans in those days. Josephine Baker sent a spray of roses. James Baldwin helped him find a good apartment.
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1995 22 12
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Then it got quiet again, the kind of quiet that fills a car even with the radio on and the highway ticking away and the corn flying past regimented and silk tasseled.
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1198 22 13
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Only scotch and cheap champagne/
retain their reliable flavors.
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2027 22 8
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We are a funny story, my brother and I. Twins of Africa in a kitchen on wheels the size of a cupboard, we serve tourists baguettes and pain au chocolat, in the gardens adjoining the square where the tricoteuses did their knitting, heads were chopped and..
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