1965 4 1
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The sun was so upset that immediately he pulled his blanket over his face and cried out of worry. His blanket, of course was made of clouds and his tears made up the rain. The sun was very right to be frightened, as were the flowers to wither, for the Kin
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1965136
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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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196595
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Hair as black as a Raven’s wing. Dark eyes. You wore a black dress, too, my favorite color.
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19651615
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The dancer was a little chubby, but I didn't mind. It gave her more to shake.
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196486
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When the boy held the rifle’s sights on a living creature, his breath stilled and his heartbeat swimming in his ears, his father seemed close.
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19642217
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The world is full of dead dogs
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1964149
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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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19641713
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196350
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“No, dad, I've never seen urine colored pearls.”
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196321
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Beard of Bees
My father always used to say to me, he said "Son" (he called me son) "Son. Falling in love is easy. Getting into the Guinness Book of World Records is hard".
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196373
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Why don't we do it in a yellow submarine?
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196312
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In his dreams, he swam in piles of pills. Sometimes the piles were infinite, other times the were contained, tonight the pills were intense shiny reds, chalky yellows, deep blues and matte purples and swirled around in a children's inflatable castle. Derek swam happily,…
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196310
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They gave Lee a bunch of morphine in the ambulance and he came to vaguely, murmuring shit about God and mermaids.
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196341
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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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19631611
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Is there a recipe for / lasting happiness?
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196365
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There are glasses in the sinkfrom the water that I drink.And the books in my li-braryare not dumb and ordinary.There's a doggie at my door;did I go to the pet store?There's a puppy on my couch-ywho was happy, now she's grouchy.Was a writer, now an authoror an otter; no, an…
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196221
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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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1962118
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They are always there. Stoic and steady.
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196252
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I think I’m the best Marilyn Monroe there ever was.
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196210
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19621511
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There was nothing to do but dream ourselves forward. Nothing to do but not die.
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19621211
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Everything would've been copasetic except about the time we got down there they put the turkey in the fryer..
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1962105
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"She had been warned." (this started as a fun alien story and then took a human turn.)
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196211
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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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19612117
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After breakfast, he dresses and heads / for the blackjack tables.
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19611315
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Somewhere a banjo, somewhere a hound.
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196173
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I, the energies moving through this body, in this particular parallel reality in this multiverse, am standing out in the middle of the night, under only stars, and surrounded by the soft, organic shapes of a tree line.
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196111
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Eyes so much deeper, that the internal flow could not hope to equal the intensity fired beyond iris, pupil and sclera. So blue, that life could not exist in the fragile shape of his heart, blue veins outlining an ever enlargening circumference…
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19611910
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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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1961107
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Difference 'twixt night and day
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