1960 14 9
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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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196032
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It wasn't meant to happen like this— the shutter, the feeling of breathlessness when he touched her shoulder, even after he had pointed out all of the things she had done incorrectly throughout the day. They had been married for five years in February, and as…
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196011
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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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196066
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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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196010
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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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1960278
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They discovered the baby in the grass, under the snapping cotton sheets.
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19601615
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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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19591910
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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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195997
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Giving challenging patrons funny nicknames is a "library thing."
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1959136
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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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195910
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195965
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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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19591511
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There was nothing to do but dream ourselves forward. Nothing to do but not die.
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19591211
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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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195921
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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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19591713
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195911
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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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195886
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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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1958107
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Difference 'twixt night and day
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195852
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I think I’m the best Marilyn Monroe there ever was.
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195812
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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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19571311
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The hair on my arms have greyed, or so that's how it looks to me. It's been 12 years since we last spoke. I think I haven't aged too well. I bought a rocking chair.
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195756
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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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195750
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“No, dad, I've never seen urine colored pearls.”
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195773
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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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195711
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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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1957102
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Time
Holds
Ultimately
Nothing
Dear
Except
Reunion
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195741
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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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19571611
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Is there a recipe for / lasting happiness?
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195798
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The stand is designed to clasp two guitars, one on either side. She cradles an Ovation in her arms, a guitar variety our high school friends used to call a soup bowl. In the stand is an acoustic-electric hybrid that I toyed with for ten…
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