1760 10 5
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I don't want no laugh track
I'm trying to find something that's real
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175900
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The tsunami started, ironically enough, with a phone call.
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175900
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The girl who was me stands in a sandbox with upraised arms, honey hair tied with olive yarn in two ponytails. She says nothing, but wants me to pick her up.
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17591915
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“What does the future hold?”
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175900
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That was really the problem with leaving. She had to leave everything, could take none of the perfection with her. Anything she took would’ve been too little, or too much, once removed. Once not in his house, not in his vision or touch, the magic would
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175997
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Most things come down to carnality, it seems, and dreams are no exception – or that’s how the teller of dreams told it to me.
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175931
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The shark’s voice was dark, warm and scratchy, like dying embers.
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1759118
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I looked at her, shook my head and tried to smile. She smiled back, beaming a radiance that pushed away the chill.
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175985
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Mars' circled state is slain, no bird of Jove That roosts protected in its green youth's flush; Its storms no more bring moistness from above, From blue beads cradled in one thunder's flash. The god of War was husband once to Love: Her arms were …
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175900
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The Sentinels all played for a while. They helped Reya swim in the deeper side of the pool. They even had a diving competition to see who could make a bigger splash.
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175942
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The dogs shit on the roof and then, every two weeks or so, the man in Apartment 311 climbs out the window with a plastic shovel and scoops the shit into a white plastic bag, which soon grows heavy with dung, dangling from his black-gloved wrist.
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175810
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It wasn't until about 2:30 that my hairpiece began mauling small children.
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175800
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"I didn’t take my mother’s denial of my dream lightly. I wanted it desperately. I cried and pleaded, nagged and begged. On several occasions, I temperamentally got out of the car at a stop sign and walked. Once, my mother said that I was nagging her so mu
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175873
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Why don't we do it in a yellow submarine?
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17581813
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The young man is back again, solo,
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175830
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If I was a bum
I’d risk everything
for a drink or a smoke
I would beg and curse and steal
if I was a bum
If I was a bum
I would cuss out the Pope
I would not vote for anyone
because I would know truly
they’d be telling gross lies
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175800
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I can barely feel the blade as it first goes in. I'm pleasantly surprised. But as she drags the knife across my skin the pain increases becoming more and more painful rising to a point of unbearable agony the further she cuts.
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175800
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It is suddenly very cold. Mon opens his eye. He sees fog, the ground. A skeletal tree. Where am I? he thinks. ... Mon listens. He can hear distant noises through the fog: laughter, …
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17571112
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...even unbelieving prayer
muttered with quiet resigned breaths
can not foretell or forestall stains...
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17571712
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
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17571511
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Here they come, those witnesses.
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175700
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". . . with the impact of a 18-wheeler jack-knifed into a Mini-Cooper as it hits the surface."
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175721
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What Mohammed didn’t tell me was the house was owned by drug dealers and inhabited by wealthy playboys who urged me over and over again to accompany them to the bathhouse.
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175700
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She turned to the window, staring into the dark. A smile crept to her lips and she laughed softly. “No, we can’t. I’m Mexican and we speak Spanish.” The smile vanished and she moved to leave. “No sé qué decir… sólo puedo llorar. Nada
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1757103
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A crash, a loud tear screams through the house. A coffee table continues its dutiful life as a bitch.
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175711
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And I was going into the visions you get before you go to sleep. And I heard her moan. It was so beautiful. I moaned back. And she moaned again. And I did too. We pretended I guess that we didn’t hear each other. That we were moaning in our sleep.
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175722
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She hated the noiseless dying sound they made as he stuck the hook through their eyes. She always wanted for them to scream, but they never did. They didn’t even blink.
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1756124
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all / the secret letters/ ever dreamed up
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175621
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The young male sat off by himself and nursed his wounds and a grudge.
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175698
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In the beginning the revolution was all motion and energy. When the President for Life resigned motion and energy disappeared with the sounds of clapping hands.
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