1944 4 1
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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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19442212
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So, how did they meet? After years and years of starvation and gruesomeness and lack of human contact because there were no humans left, only walking corpses, a woman gently lifted the sixty-pound dead man's penis with a cool washrag and wiped him clean. The dead…
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194350
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How many of them, I'm wondering, are just going through the motions until the power goes out and never comes back on again? They've got to know the Americans will never let the city fall to the færies.
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19431211
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Call him a hobo or homeless or bum or junkie.
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1943105
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1942149
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Maybe all quarterbacks are shitwads.
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19422016
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The custard of eternity is scooped into
the quantum cone of knowledge and drips
out the bottom one lifetime at a time.
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194291
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I've come to the Playboy Mansion on a mission of mercy. Hugh Hefner, my good buddy, has just lost two girlfriends in a single day!
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194286
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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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194250
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“No, dad, I've never seen urine colored pearls.”
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194200
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Ben tossed the newspaper aside, muttering. Carol, curled up on the sofa, peered past the glasses at the tip of her nose and past the crossword puzzle.
"What?"
"The Brits wanted to fight rather than be taken hostage. They had an escort boat ridin
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19421910
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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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194266
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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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194200
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19421611
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Is there a recipe for / lasting happiness?
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194265
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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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19421511
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There was nothing to do but dream ourselves forward. Nothing to do but not die.
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194221
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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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1942278
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They discovered the baby in the grass, under the snapping cotton sheets.
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194211
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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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194182
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Four in the morning. I was awake because I'm always awake. There were little fog-halos around the streetlights.
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194162
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Did you take out the trash? Did you water the ficus? Did you cancel the cable? Did you take my black sweater? Did you tell the neighbors? Will you get the friends? What about the cat? Will you send me a Christmas card? Will I tear it up? Did you know…
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19411211
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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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194198
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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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194080
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“You always use that as a crutch. You, a sixteen year old girl. The way you were…” She looked at me, shaking her head, looking at my body as if remembering some wrong, some thing that should not have been.
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1940143
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You have a house (plural, as in Spain)
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194021
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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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1940118
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They are always there. Stoic and steady.
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1940169
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homelessness, you called the lie,
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194031
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