1980 9 7
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Most things come down to carnality, it seems, and dreams are no exception – or that’s how the teller of dreams told it to me.
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198056
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The heart is a toothed hole that cannot be filled.
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1980129
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198000
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Incredibly he began to picture in his mind a scene not related at all to his frenzied search but of a huge plate of apple pie a la mode with the vanilla ice cream melting in streams like cool lava down the side of the pie and off of the plate.
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197996
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I’m maybe only four. Not smoking cigarettes found in street gutters yet. That will come the next year, when I’m five. Maybe when I’m six, and Andy’s five, my pal from across the street. That’s my tricycle parked behind this pack of kids that look to be ne
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1979126
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She bought her first gerbil at the age of nine. She wondered if he would die from endless logrolling. When he died from natural causes, she refused to bury him and kept a distance from the first boy who kissed her--Thomas J. Hobbit. The next year a twister swept…
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197964
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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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197951
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The waitress says,
“That’s a memory,”
as the smoke dances around her head.
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197910
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Gloomy night slippery as snake and duck.
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197971
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Homer relaxes in his tan, faded recliner, remote in hand, and watches death unfold on his television.
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197951
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Sandra exits her bedroom wearing a bikini. It’s celadon green, though brighter, ‘SW#6705 High Strung’, I’d say. A saturated splash of yellow overtakes its straps.
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19792518
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197965
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We lingered there in that room for a few moments, stuck in the awkward goo of rejection and regret. At some point, I’m not sure when, I left, found a bathroom down the hall and washed my ear.
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197821
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I didn’t kiss Odgeir because I fancied him, I kissed him because I knew other people fancied him.
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197811
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Once, when I had not talked to you in a long time, I woke with your name in my mouth.
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197864
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My cousin had put them up last year, showed me when we stood on her bed as her fingers pointed, traced over the outlines, then turned out the lights, so that I could see them glow.
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197886
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I woke to a crash and the sound of coins rolling along the linoleum. “Mom?” She did not look up. Her shaking hand was gathering up the single crown coins, the fifty heller pieces. Triumphantly she rescued a ten crown note from the piggy bank shards. …
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197832
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Out here in nearly nowhere I met this man. About him I know something something, and no one can tell me otherwise.
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1978119
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We'll Thelma-and-Louise it, I urged, Bonnie-and-Clyde it, she bettered, Sundance-and-Butch it, I proffered but she was already leaning in for a kiss.
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1978208
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The music, Antonín Dvořák's 'New World Symphony,' the second movement, 'Largo,' immediately alters my mood.
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197751
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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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19771615
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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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19771211
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I knew my mother would die by the weekend
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19773620
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197600
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A behind the scenes look at how music influenced the writing of Arcana Magi Universe.
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197622
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Mama told me never to play with the Dooley boys. They play too rough, they’re not to be trusted, and no one has seen Mrs. Dooley since she tried to clean out their tree house. Mama would always say, “You play with the Dooley Boys, you play with Satan.”
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197662
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It was as if a car bomb went off in Beaver Cleaverville.
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197662
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Kitchen Knife (n.)1. A standard kitchen tool consisting of a sharp blade attached to a handle intended for cutting, peeling, chopping, slicing, and dicing.2. Used primarily for food preparation (see also BUTCHERING; BACKSTABBING; JACK THE RIPPER; DEATH BY A THOUSAND…
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1976145
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