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Where seldom is heard
an encouraging word
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1846108
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Wake up, stretch. Check the curtained windows for sunlight or
that dreaded grey frame that forces the covers to come back up
and the alarm clock to be set to ‘Snooze’.
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184663
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circa the early 90s, Buzz Aldrin and my father had been invited to a dinner at someone's house on Bainbridge Island and gotten lost.
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184642
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Flush, a sputter, and the water level rises, slowly. Flush again.
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184575
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Came to admire Kiyoko Matsumoto. Japanese. Aged 19. Lesbian. 1933. Jumped into a volcano.
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1845115
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She wears a green and pink bikini and walks real slow, poking her chest out so people will notice her.
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184542
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The stern tone of the chairwoman made him miss his mother, the snap of her accusations, the sting of her belt on the backs of his legs.
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184500
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They stood before the opened door, where cold vapor seeped out along their feet and chilled their bodies. The Avatars figured this was what the necromancer used to get inside.
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184570
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"Do you have to call your brother a loser? He is not a loser and that was just uncalled for"
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1845129
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Harpo sits and looks at something I can't see. I drink beer and ask him questions. I ask him how they found the cancer. Backache, he says. He went to see a doctor.
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184451
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It was the shock of black hair twisted into a long thick braid that got our attention and made us want to find meaning here. Albert thought he recognized the hair in the grave.
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1844134
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. . . she didn’t bow her head.
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184411
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What? No, no, where did my world go? I was in the middle of… something. What's going on? What's stroking my face?
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184400
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A dark-haired, handsome man adjusted the headset he was wearing, leaned toward a microphone, and eyed his host, a curly-haired man with a toothy grin, who sat up straight as he received a cue from his producer.
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184453
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The summer everyone read Faulkner, I read Hemingway. Out of spite.
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184433
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I can tread water like this for months maybe longer
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1844115
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i.More and more, for Megan LeMaster, each beginning was its own end. She couldn't bear to buy flowers or dresses that seemed too beautiful. Friendships formed, endured, gave out in a handshake. Each deed in life had an immediate, inescapable…
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184341
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Refuse to go to the church service, even though you already missed the funeral. Tell his mother something came up. Call his phone over and over, just to hear his voice, until his mother asks you to stop. Make a recording of his voicemail. Delete it an
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1843117
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I'm trying to read a Poetry in Motion poem on there wall of a crowded electric train
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184300
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No news spreads faster than news of a death. Word of the death of a child can be heard simultaneously in a thousand places. . . the word spread by telephone, in back yards from clothesline to clothesline, with whispers in grocery stores, in the looks on faces stunned into…
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184362
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Whoever came up with the term kismet is an absolute moron. There isn't a single reason, or word, that can describe what exactly my brain has concocted in the face of him. No, kismet isn't what makes it happen. It's my own stupidity..
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1842183
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she peeled back
the white wrapper
from around her
ice cream sandwich
slowly, methodically
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184264
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Gorgonzola. It's what she was to bring this time. Plumtree's potted meat. What it was last time.
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1842159
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The violin hung on the wall after that, a witness.
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184262
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1. Think up problems that don’t exist
2. Realize, suddenly, that they don’t exist
3. Elation
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18421312
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But by day the birds / of prey were in control.
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184210
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Vito suddenly found himself wide awake. He was unable to recall having fallen asleep or dreaming or awakening. It seemed he'd just entered bed, yet a glance at the windows told him it was already the middle of the night.
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18421712
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Conceptio culpa
Nasci pena
Labor vita
Necesse mori
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184143
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On Day 1122 at 4:14 AM the door which has remained since installation firmly glued to the masonry behind opens and a man emerges blinking shielding his eyes against fine stinging snow.
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184133
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Blacked-out out on junk, I bet money on a sport I hated just last year.
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