1920 15 10
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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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192051
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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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192011
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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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19202114
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I don't want / to write about the body indulged, desires / denied, tortures invented, pleasures innate
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191920
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“I am NOT a hooker.”
“What exactly are you, then?” Marlene raised her slim eyebrows. Her almond shaped eyes and high-cut bangs gave her the appearance of a 1950s Barbie doll.
“Well…” I stirred my coffee and looked down. I wasn't sure wh
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191910
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Yellow tape marks a walkway that was previously unknown. Caution, caution. Lounge turned waiting room for a ballroom turned infirmary. An entrance, an exit, caution, caution. The line is of amusement park ride length. But no roller coaster at the end, only an antidote…
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1919177
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The transformation in their domineering, sour mother revised her children’s memories of their childhoods.
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191920
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“We’re prisoners,” Sean reminded the guard. “Prisoners of your military.”
“You have never been treated as such.” Captain Hughes looked around the bar. “This festival is a celebration of you, of all of you. We pride ourselves on ou
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191920
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What the heck to believe in??
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191900
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“You have an impressive pair there,” he says, hands warm as he cups them. “Shame they’re on a man though.”
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1919117
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Kramer wraps himself around Kramer’s legs, from behind, then lifts him and tips him up and over and down, per their rehearsed routine.
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191800
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His footing unsure and his clothes covered in vomit, he grabs the railing and stumbles up the three steps. He pulls off his shirt, finds a cleaner area on the puke-covered garment, wipes sweat off his forehead, dripping wet from the humid, stormy night, a
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191884
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“I don’t know what’s going on there,” Hank, who hated his name and wanted a more Biblical name because those names (Jeremiah! Matthew! David!)—although common—sound ominous, said as he pointed up to the top of the apartment building that housed the whores
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19182217
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The bungalow was unlocked. The screen
door was unhooked. The trout on the
counter was deboned.
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19182414
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Our lives depend on/
engineers
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19181917
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A flash in seven chapters.
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1918104
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They live a simple life..two solitudes by lamplight.
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1918115
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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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191821
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He had expected more -- at least his grandfather's classic Packard touring car.
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1917910
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I knew I needed to visit a beach / made entirely of sharks’ teeth
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191751
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The waitress says,
“That’s a memory,”
as the smoke dances around her head.
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19171710
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Even if your heart is as large as a small car, your tongue as heavy as two grown men—even then—you will have to carry it with you wherever you go.
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1917177
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After not going out for weeks, I went to a bar and met an electrical engineer, a motorcycle racer who raced in the Black Hills, a Renaissance man, in a relationship with a young married woman, and I told him about the toad.
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19171816
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We die in order to get some rest
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191764
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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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191641
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She comes in with her white bag with its floral patterns scattered, almost accidentally, all around it
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19161713
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No fear of that, / he assured her,
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191610
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Almost on cue, Xavier emerges and is in the vendor’s face. “X,” as he is known around here, is indoctrinating the obvious newbie on the merits of showing up earlier and the logistics of placeholders and markers.
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191655
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“You’re not in Saigon anymore, Mai Bi'ch,” I said, craning to read her name badge. “They’ll need to be much better than that if you want to stay in this country.”
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191632
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Miraculous tarantulas, and octopii, have many limbs akimbo, Two have you: and they are better than be kept in zoo. Thine eyne are like the marbles that my youth had held in limbo, ‘Cept even better yet, for they are fairly lashed and greeny-blue. Your…
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