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1940 6 6
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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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1940 6 5
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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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1940 12 11
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Call him a hobo or homeless or bum or junkie.
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1939 5 0
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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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1939 16 9
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homelessness, you called the lie,
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1939 5 5
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Crawl to the dark places I love most, loud music and off key laughter, glimmering green and brown bottles eagerly holding the dim lights overhead inside themselves like ransomed stars.
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1939 15 11
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There was nothing to do but dream ourselves forward. Nothing to do but not die.
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1939 27 8
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They discovered the baby in the grass, under the snapping cotton sheets.
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1939 1 2
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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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1938 5 0
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“No, dad, I've never seen urine colored pearls.”
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1938 1 1
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They say ehmand for almond in the San Joaquin Valley.
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1938 8 2
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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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1938 11 8
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They are always there. Stoic and steady.
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1938 3 1
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1938 1 2
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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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1938 6 2
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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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1938 12 11
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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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1938 1 1
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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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1938 16 15
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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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1937 9 1
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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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1937 2 1
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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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1937 5 4
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Click-clack, click-clack. The cadence of the tracks below push George back and forth between what happened and what is to come.
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1937 1 1
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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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1937 13 8
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Steel beams. Welds painted over green. Yellow numbers of some sort. Old phone booths. Tags on the walls. I looked up and saw where bits of water fall down from the overpass. Pigeon up there. Washing his wings or something like that. Greyness. I was in a truck.…
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1937 12 12
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Momma called them Vaughens, "a outfit," and said, "they shoulda throwed the book at that Darla Jean."
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1937 7 5
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Lila began to hear whispers coming from her home's air vents and quickly assumed people were watching her. Maybe that was why the yard was not progressing she thought. The unknowns talking to her through the vents had control over everything she did.
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1937 2 1
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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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1937 25 12
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...fancy the idea of tapas, Spain an' all.
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