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But THIS is what happens when you collect genuine reviews. I began with a list of 50 of the greatest books of all time, according to the compiler of the list, and then went to a list of some of the worst best sellers in recent history, [scroll down] and t
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The one he liked best was a middle aged woman who didn't wear underwear. She had a terrific figure.
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My wife thinks I should be committed.
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She's at an artist colony in the state of Virginia. She's in her studio. She should be writing. That's what everybody thinks she's doing out here. Why else would she be in her studio alone at 3:00 a.m.? But there's an interloper. A new painter? Sculptor? Maybe he…
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A flash in seven chapters.
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He played real good
But never looked
At no one
Strong guitar
Weak knees
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The snake was fang-less and so had to choke her, making the kill bloodless and drawn out, just the way she liked it.
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I'm sitting here listening to Nebraska and it's / breaking my heart
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I get what you want done from me. You want the old one two sucker punch that goes straightaway through to the tenderest part of the aching heart, the one that tumbles you out of your old worn out gut wrenching way of living life for…
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We were in the car more than anywhere else. A few days driving, then a few days to get back home.
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It felt like I was somewhere I wasn’t supposed to be, like I’d walked into a house that looked like mine, but belonged to someone else.
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Try it with and without/
middle name or middle initial.//
Try different keywords.
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My heart hurts as I miss you here./This was your intention, I know./
And nor is my reaction unique.
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I attended the burial of our affair when I found her notebook— maybe it should be called her diary—that she had foolishly left on the deck of my beach house where she stayed while I was on that short trip to Chicago. Numb at first, unsure how to proceed, I went…
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Falling//
is something that comes quite naturally/
to puffed up things. Like the soufflé
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He was entirely guilty of what he had done and wanted that to be acknowledged and understood by the arresting officer.
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the definition of beauty is easy
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A screaming comes across the brain
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People disappeared in the 70's—young girls, teenagers, they always said they ran away. Nobody really believed that the next-door neighbor was capable of that kind of horror. These two girls disappeared and the police had been digging up the farm of t
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"You're publishing too much too / quickly. We think that's unhealthy. We want you / to slow down. You're becoming a fame whore."
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I realize I am standing with my hands on my naked hips, my panties and shorts are clumped around my left ankle.
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A bedridden ward of the state,/
warehoused in a nursing home,/
unable to drive to the liquor store/
for whiskey and cigarettes,
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I’m in the Grand Central Station bar-- the one at the top of the stairs-- waiting for my husband to enter so I can watch him. The bar is crowded, everyone getting in that last beer before heading back to whiney children and tired spouses.
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It's been sixteen days since I spoke with another soul. I don't mind much, but I know enough about people to know most would think I'm mighty odd. Muriel, for example. She'd be pissed as all get out. …
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I screwed my courage to the sticking point and asked him if he had shot down any Japanese airplanes. He grinned at me. “One,” he said.
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He held my little hand in his and guided it through the dirt.
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