1938 3 1
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“That’s just Ryan W. Bradley—son of a bitch knows better by now.”
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193853
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Even though it was late November, it still bloomed. Extravagantly. Obviously it had no shame, obviously it reveled in its own beauty.
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19384024
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What used to be a scene has broken into fragments and blips of her on a screen I can’t control or manipulate.
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193801
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Word traveled fast at school on Monday. Emma Jakowski had actually captured him. He was being held in her dad's tool shed. Anyone who wanted to see him had to be in the Jakowski's backyard by 3:15 that afternoon, chocolate bunny ears in hand. It was no…
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193800
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This is how we catch up. I write something down, and you read me quietly. In a year's time you will remind me, though I would have forgotten. I check to see if maybe you have put up a new song, every once in a while, but you don't sing as well as you used to.What has…
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19382210
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Mabel constructed the quintessential boundary. She carefully boiled down her pots and pans, her jewelry, her copper kettle, and the foils from forty six bottles of white pear cider into a silky metallic stew. Mable smeared the mixture onto a burlap…
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193863
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“I need an ambulance, we found a baby in a ditch.”
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193832
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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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1938127
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I have no more use for the beautiful words you used to like so much for me tosend you alone. See my feathers donot so much hide me now as giveme away; I tend to feel farfrom home. Forgive me this. Theend jumped by me quicker than anorange flower cricket on its…
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19371615
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One by one I lost my desires.
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19371814
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it corrupts the smells//
and flavors of the world/
and plants its swollen face
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193787
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a dry bony voice/from a desiccated soul/coughs up its own throat.
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1937149
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When Uncle Dan got sent to the Alzheimer's ward, the ladies licked their lips. Fresh meat.
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193784
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It don't knock you down to the goddamned ground and push your face into the mat and dare you to get back up. Just so it can knock you down again. They don't have real dreams. Dreams that make them wake up in the middle of the night. Hurting. Wanting.
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193721
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“Where did it go? You don’t know do you?” he teased the dogs as he adjusted the bottle rocket he had twisted into the ground at his feet, trying to find the optimal path.
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193700
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"I didn’t take my mother’s denial of my dream lightly. I wanted it desperately. I cried and pleaded, nagged and begged. On several occasions, I temperamentally got out of the car at a stop sign and walked. Once, my mother said that I was nagging her so mu
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1937118
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Everyone at the Bermudez Brothers Combined Shows and Circus held one low opinion or another about Jimmy Dubcek.
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193771
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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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193751
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"I wonder what happened to Murder Man and Lust Girl?" wondered The Black Toadstool. The Anti-Justice League were in Machu Picchu, on a short vacation after taking over most of South America and the South Pole. The South Pole had been so easy. …
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19371211
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I knew my mother would die by the weekend
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193721
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Terry worked in a factory out in Northlake where she added a little squirt of milk and another little squirt of cream to those tiny half-and-half coffee creamers you find at every motel in the country. The owner of that factory hired only women to work
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193721
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If you know how, all bodies can be read like books, like poems, like scraps of song
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19372018
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193732
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One day my mother's lover shaved his beard and legs. Said he couldn’t fit into his tight jeans anymore.
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193600
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A burst of mud spilled out over Jonas and scooped his body up like a raging river. It spun his body over in a rebound rather than pushing him through the door.
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193600
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By the time I learned how much I loved my family, I was 3 years and eight-hundred miles away from them
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19362010
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Went back to his cab and returned with a whip...
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193631
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The shark’s voice was dark, warm and scratchy, like dying embers.
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193610
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Gloomy night slippery as snake and duck.
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193642
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I'd been living in Boston, but, on a whim, flew to London, England. Soon I was working as support staff for the actor Alan Bates and his wife, Victoria, on a movie called "The Shout", shooting in Devon.
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