2017 5 0
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Alone,we are ageless togetherin the heart of our precious now.A relentless wedge of image and vanity, gossip and innuendo, acceptable and most certainly not, dashes our agelessness intoan insurmountable chasm of years.That diabolically…
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201724
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20171816
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We die in order to get some rest
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20172118
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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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201742
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I had the hair of a metal god, cracking it against the air whenever the stereo belched fists.
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2017115
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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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201764
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Where truth is revealed
To all, transparency
In policy, including
The REAL reasons
We are at war.
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201664
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We lived in a white and mint green trailer in the woods. I was 23. The hanging of the clothes on the line made me feel kind of famous in the eyes of nature
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20161913
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perjured like a fickle impulse
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201651
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in his thin, swanky
black leather jacket
out on the town at night
in Mexico with his girlfriend
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201611
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Almost 24 hours ago in Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden was sleeping just as he had slept every night for the hundreds of days prior; comfortable in a million dollar compound with his son and advisors around him...
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201665
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Someday, the Grim Reaper, wrapped in hooded cowl, the thorny stem of a red rose clenched between his teeth, will climb up the garden trellis to my bedroom window
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20151313
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We honor fierce, quick, cunning/
thought-in-action types
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20151510
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There was gonna be a rumble in our schoolyard. An outright brawl. It was gonna be just like Blackboard Jungle. Only real. Not some movie at the Duwamish Drive-In. Every boy in my school, it seemed like, was lined up outside except me. All the third and fourth graders…
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2015116
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It is certain. The roofs are hats for the houses because you wear a hat in the rain or the snow or even and sometimes especially the sun. The houses are curious. They keep their hats on at night. The downspouts for run-off water are strands of hair such as…
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2015183
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she peeled back
the white wrapper
from around her
ice cream sandwich
slowly, methodically
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20152414
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Our lives depend on/
engineers
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201500
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2 sticks soft (like your heart) butter...
... 1 cup crushed (like you) walnuts...
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201500
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Sometimes Seattle's the next thing to heaven. The sky's diamond blue, the sun's a caress; your whole soul can breathe. You know what the shouting's about. But the sun quickly fades to Protestant gray and the gray last a long…
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201541
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He lit my cigarette even though he didn't want me to smoke. Buying me drinks all night, he didn't complain, but he thought I drank too much.
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201551
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One year, she got a kite.
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2014139
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with cool confidence
and believable body language
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201484
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At first we envied Tom and Betty’s dancing. Friday nights at The Big Club, Saturdays at Mickey’s, and none of us can remember a time we saw them in the arms of another partner.
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201432
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... her hair spills like spinach all the way down to her backpack, the top pocket where the bowl and the cinnamon estrange themselves from the coffee.
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201400
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A night bird lands on the windowsill with a struggling copper moth in its beak. The bird cocks its head at Rasmus, then swallows the clockwork insect in a gulp before flying away.
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20142216
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Maybe she would get married and have a baby, she said. Not with me, I said
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201432
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“Why is it that you give a woman a bit of power and she turns into a man” said a new intern from the copying room “You can hear her balls rubbing on the carpet as she walks”
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201462
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The night is a jelly slosh, a fertile rumble, a rhumba, black and seeping, thick. An arm rises.
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201400
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From the moment they had decided to come until the present, each seated guest had been parading one faceless male possibility after another through her curious mind. Would he be strong? Handsome? Ugly? Crippled? The possibilities were endless...
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201354
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