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He doesn’t intend to lie after this. For now, he just wants to take in the sea and the quiet.
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the slow stretches across the horizon
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The night my husband became a transvestite, crows started dying. They fell from the sky like black umbrellas, hitting the ground with a thud. A rainstorm of birds. I figured it was a virulent strain of bird flu that drifted into the clouds and killed them
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There were one hundred titles on the list. One hundred books that could neither be assigned nor put on a recommended reading list.
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We soft boiled the free range egg, cracked it, and were surprised to find nothing in it.
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There is no hate in his eyes...
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Indeed, it was quite likely that no one in town had ever played either of these games. The townsfolk were not big fans of word games, though they did enjoy Whist and Canasta.
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"The carpet's hot lava," my son cries, pointing at the ground from the sofa."Yeowch!" I say, leaping next to him.We sit together for a moment, silently contemplating our predicament."We need to get downstairs," I tell him. He nods, but does not move. He stares at the hot…
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In my upper room, a sermon/
was playing about sundry.
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Her eyes stared wide with panic, her teeth chattered intermittently with impressive intensity, and with her ineffectual stabs at the air she completed the portrait of distracted mania.
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We're in a sedate forest next to a boisterous beach. The sky is sea green above the trees and forest green above Sinepuxent Bay. Chaste squirrels are keeping a lookout for bad-boy gulls. Kids on circus bikes ride out of the woods into their bathing suits. The…
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How could he care less what those below thought, when everything below him was demonstrably beneath him?
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You might as well be the man on the moon. Once touching your face was quotidian. When I tallied each day's pleasures, you, in this room or that, counted too much for me, I think. I stopped record keeping. I'm …
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Fear the air and fear the fire./
Fear the land and fear the water./
Creation is out to get you, speck,
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Every year people came from as far away as Des Moines and Halifax for Elephant Day. They came to see the elephants.
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The first punch sent me flying into a Christmas tree. The second put me on the floor on my hands and knees, blood dripping from my nose.
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lost in a taxi cab, 4:30 am
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“Time is inalterable. We can only offer an altered perception of time. And what better way to do that than by offering altered timepieces?
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“I found out the most amazing thing,” Mike said. “I used to be like everyone else. But I sent away for a DNA test where they trace your ancestry.”
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Nothing about it//
is attractive- its color, it’s design,/
it’s market value. I leave it be and watch
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#281: If you make it to the end on this one, I'll send you $1,000 in cash and a bag of apples. Your choices are Granny Smith and Fuji. I can also pay you in euros if that helps.
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“If 'neighbor' applies to women who covet—'deliriously desire'—husbands from Angers, then one day he'll be your husband's neighbor," I say.
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it's the very words that are the problem
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As the music concludes, I'm finally in control of my emotions . . .
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There will always be some
who misread the dance
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