1913 11 8
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The wind has no voice
and yet we listen,
perhaps imagining the ramblings
of a mad man
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19122417
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His head was usually full of ah ha!, a luminescence that folded around obstacles like smoke.
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19121910
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The snows have not come but left behind are the sounds of summer in my old neighborhood.
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191221
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He lays his piping accoutrement on the bedside table, removes his cap, brocaded jacket, boots and slacks. Holmes brushes gently, the back of his hand across the confused face of Watson— their…
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191274
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“Lunge to your right,” the woman on the screen instructs. She is easily six-months pregnant but still looks fit and healthy. “Now show off your baby.” She centers herself, splays her arms, and thrusts her belly out towards us. “Lunge to the left. Now show
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1912136
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And so it begins, like this, waiting to long for a lazy train out of West Toledo...
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191211
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Steve Bancroft’s future wife showed up at his door that same night, slamming her hand loudly against the door and shouting for him. “Steve, Steve, wake up. Damn it, come on. You forgot to pick me up at the airport. Who are you in there with? I said wa
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191295
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Then I would say to my new friends, “My God, look at all the weight you’ve lost.” Even when they hadn’t lost any. Even when they were fatter than before.
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191212
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Crea grew up above a pet store and now she dreams of cats. There are too many of them to name, a slinking mess of calico, tabby, tortoise-shell, black and white. There are more each night. They whisper to her, words made of hissing mewls. During the…
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191287
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"I've been on eight blind dates in three days," she tells me. I can't quite work the math out, but somehow the combination of her wildly undulating eyebrows and harsh vocal tone manage to convince me."I can play the kazoo," I tell her. It's my one saving grace--the thing…
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191241
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"What's that smell?" Osama glares at me from the front seat of the Trans Am.
"What smell?" I say.
"You smell like a diaper. Are you wearing a diaper?" Osama and Peach both laugh at me.
"No... maybe, its my Baby Soft perfume. Is it too strong?"
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191130
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He was dead when he tried to wake up.
“Wake up,” he yelled silently to himself, although it didn’t sound silent to his voice.
“Brr, brr, brr,” shouted his alarm clock as it glared two red fives, a colon and a seven
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1911137
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Purple not rain! I guess Prince left. It is said that Prince owned the aquifer under Jordan, Minnesota, and that he sold it but to whom? And moved to Canada—
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191197
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Giving challenging patrons funny nicknames is a "library thing."
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191141
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At that time I was meeting Jacob at 3:30 each afternoon in Joan of Arc Park so we could walk dogs together. This was our job.
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19111611
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Is there a recipe for / lasting happiness?
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191121
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One night the woman went down in the
basement, grabbed an electric drill, and let the voices out in eight places.
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1911278
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They discovered the baby in the grass, under the snapping cotton sheets.
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191100
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Danica paused for a moment as thoughts of going to Avalon Tech changed to heading for Mystic Intelligence. She could not understand why she thought about going there.
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1910103
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“I’ll be damned,” he said. “I never knew where that was.”
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After breakfast, he dresses and heads / for the blackjack tables.
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191050
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“No, dad, I've never seen urine colored pearls.”
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fire rolls through
the drive-thru
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191011
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For a fleeting moment, eyes seemed to clear and the man spoke as if he were coming out of the pea soup fog that formed over the lake on spring mornings.
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190956
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She told me one way to deal with it would be to put everything in a box and burn it.
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190940
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There was that long weekend she'd spent lazing around a suite at the Beverly Wilshire between the Golden Globes and the Oscars with the suddenly now married actor, and then there had been Cabo. This was before the current thing and before the thing before
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4. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
> > (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
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I answered with my usual economy of words. If someone wants more, they must ask, and he did.
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homelessness, you called the lie,
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