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Watching water fall in the longest waterfall/
becomes immediately tedious
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I could never be a chef.Preparing creations that will merely be consumed.If I were a chef,I'd have to create dishes that required chewingand chewing and chewing.I'd find it better for my dishes to be destroyed in the mouth.Remembered for their…
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I had felt suddenly lighter and next thing I knew I was watching Leonard Tucker and Sister William from somewhere near the ceiling. I saw myself, too, at my desk, holding my songbook out in front of me like everyone else.
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185495
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I envisioned bound feet of ancient Asian women who wore embroidered slippers that hid grotesque disfigurements.
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18541911
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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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185470
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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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Upon learning the fetus has fingernails, Missy texts her boyfriend: It has nails! He won’t reply because he’s just left for war, but she does it just the same.
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“Your brain, your brain tries to make sense of things like this, specially life-threatening weird shit, so in my mind the grass was on fire and driving out swarms of invisible bees that were stinging us to death. Invisible killer bees. You don’t shoot be
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185394
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Where I grew up, you did not venture casually into ocean waters.
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185322
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Hi, I'm Harmony Korine. I esteem douchebags.
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185300
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The corpse lay silently in his open casket. Dressed in the finest silken suit. Italian. Rubber skin pulled over his bones. Arms folded in eternal prayer.
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185354
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Her pudgy face, flour-coated and sugary and so life-nurturing in the past, had a different spark now, a searching look I’d seen as soon as she opened the door.
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But by day the birds / of prey were in control.
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185332
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You call the shit in this paper news? ‘Dog Accidentally Shoots Man With His Own Gun, Swedish Man Bursts Into Flames on Train Platform, The Truth About Elvis's Hidden Extraterrestrial Daughter.' Seriously? Enough about Elvis already.
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185311
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"Ah, finally the rain stopped pouring!" She opens the window to let the sticky air out of the house. The colours outside have changed. The air is clear and the sky turns into light pink while the sun is drowning at the horizon. She takes a deep breath. The…
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185220
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Duh. It’s all the same sky. Instead I nod, and don’t say anything.
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Things don’t happen here, life is so boring in this little Irish town.
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The waitress says,
“That’s a memory,”
as the smoke dances around her head.
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185232
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“You wanna fight.”
And I say yes.
And he says –
“First, we gotta make out.”
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185284
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He beats the girl, stabs her 22 times, rapes her, then uses his fingertips to push her orbital sockets into the back of her head before killing her. At trial, he laughs about whether or not there…
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When I died, she said, she was going to have me cremated and put my ashes in the cats’ litter box.
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1852115
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After court, the three of us skipped third period, walked down to the river and huddled under the 6th Street Bridge.
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185211
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I spent the whole day at Oliveira's, writing furiously in my notebooks. The words came pouring out. Just before seven, Darrell picked me up. I grew anxious driving down to Parker's studio because it was in a bad area on the border between Oakland
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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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185111
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In sleep their bodies drift between the sheets until they find each other.
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185172
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They waited until the crowd was gone before making their move. Gill kept watch while Warren bypassed the lock.
“You sure about this?” Gill whispered. Voices echoed down the hall of the museum.
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The river’s not/
a river but/
a FEMA map/
of flooding probabilities.
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185100
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Caroline smiles before reaching out to touch a shapeless shadow dancing on the wall, closing her eyes as the bumps in the primer serve brail to oncoming dreams.
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For my Dad
Happy Father's Day!
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She sees Connick Jr. now has a microphone. He is singing “All of Me” as if he meant her to take all of him.
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