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Aside from smearing your mascara, destroying your freshly manicured fingernails, and pulling up your skirts in an unladylike way, being slain is a drag! How do you know if murder is on his mind when all you see are his words?
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18612015
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I said, “Marcy, Source Almanac is a guide for the Apple.”
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19352010
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The contrast can be summed up in a sip.
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20992013
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You died from a bad heart.
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21742018
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26622018
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They are all sleeping, but I know better. I will keep watch and if he comes tonight I will be alert and ready. When he arrives he'll see the slack mouths, the graceless sprawls, hear the grunts, snorts and snores of the other women and then he'll sense me. My eyes will…
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23772019
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if we stare into the dark long
enough, we see ourselves at some end or
beginning –
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2432208
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There's a special block in the city, nestled between Mutant Town and Trump Towers.
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19682010
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Their bodies, ripe uncovered flesh, had begun to erode, the edges of their limbs and cores bitten, taken by the wind in small pieces, flaking and tearing, some parts sliding, falling away.
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29752010
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We construct a paper bridge. The droid walks across it. We follow, one after another, like sentences in a story.
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18312014
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the doomed, but splendid,
first year GT40.
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2516204
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It's supposed to resemble the sea bed. These fish have never seen the outside of an aquarium and even if they had, they are reef fish, they'd probably get the bends and die if they went to the bottom of the ocean where the chances of them finding a cerami
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29712018
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The doctor told me:
"You have 24 hours
to live.
no more, no less."
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26072013
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"For God's sake," my mother said. "There could be anthrax in the candy."
My mother worried about me going out on Halloween.
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25732016
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We borrow a flag from a neighbor. It’s sitting on top of the TV in the den. We haven’t figured out where to display it yet.
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33582012
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Tony Soprano said, “My pal Franco is a misunderstood hopeless romantic. If you don't capiche that, I'll have a conversation with your kneecaps.”
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42722011
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He was on his way home from school on a dank winter afternoon when the attack came from nowhere, launched like a missile across the Gaza Strip. Suddenly he lay on his back with Jonathan Love pounding him in the face.
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16892014
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I become the accumulation/
of appetites
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25632015
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2532209
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When he turns around she has her top off and is climbing out of her skirt. "I don't like old men that much," she says. "We don't have to talk. No one will know."
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20642011
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...you lick you ice cream, little pink tongue like a cat's, flick, flick... lick fast, girl, the heat's gonna melt it...
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1809209
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feeling empty as the
bottom of a bottle
dry as a bone
in death valley alone
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19972010
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Went back to his cab and returned with a whip...
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18332011
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The stunned son knelt to understand then fell, his heart shredded by the hollow point.
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18142011
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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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19852012
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1439208
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I'm trying to make love to her but she wants to talk.
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22552018
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Can you see me dying? 'Not quite',
Said Mummy, 'because it happens
Very slowly all the time.
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18362013
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46182017
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The fallout came tangled with snow. We thought the sea would protect us. But it came from New Mexico greasy with Plumbbob’s vaporized pigs.
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