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In desperation, the city council imported a shaman to exorcise whatever demons had possessed the house.
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19001312
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Let’s talk about Chattanooga, the cloud / mountains, the monastery bench, drunk / at sunset
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1900118
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The wind has no voice
and yet we listen,
perhaps imagining the ramblings
of a mad man
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190011
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This couldn’t be a bar; I was with my mother. It took a few seconds for the collision of senses to clear, and I realized the restaurant had not only one, but two flat screen televisions hung in their dining room, and a fake fire blazing in the fireplace.
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190054
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The same night your best friend of two years called you up to tell you they don't want to think about you anymore was the same night you had stood silently, leaning, head against the mustard wall in your mom's boyfriend's house, stuck listening to Randy…
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18992417
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His head was usually full of ah ha!, a luminescence that folded around obstacles like smoke.
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189956
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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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189950
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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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18991910
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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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189974
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“Lunge to your right,” the woman on the screen instructs. She is easily six-months pregnant but still looks fit and healthy. “Now show off your baby.” She centers herself, splays her arms, and thrusts her belly out towards us. “Lunge to the left. Now show
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189931
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[ETIQUETTE ... DECORUM ... BOUNDARIES ... BAH!]
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1899136
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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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1899124
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Stories Around People An Event Facebook lived in midtown, for there the people and windows shone like water. Though it would board the bus—1 day—and ride to the sea, where people said words like sea and where the city shone in the waves…
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189910
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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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18991614
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fire rolls through
the drive-thru
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18991611
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Is there a recipe for / lasting happiness?
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18982117
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After breakfast, he dresses and heads / for the blackjack tables.
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189820
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“I can’t believe you went ahead and got pregnant without me,” I said.
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189820
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She’ll get a dog
a Weimaraner
I know
She’ll call him Alfie
after her first
two dogs
He’ll try to get up
on the bed
She’ll say, Alfie, no, no
But in the night
she will let him
so as not to be lonely
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189852
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I think I’m the best Marilyn Monroe there ever was.
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1898108
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La Petite Ange had lived all her life in Paris under the strange architectural twists of Notre Dame. She had been a Bluebell girl once, kicking her surprisingly long legs into the air to the delight of plumbers and Prince du…
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1898135
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Dad woke us up and said it was time to go.
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189800
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...It's my advice that this Fourth of July the Office of Homeland Security post the following instructions on your web site www.Ready.gov — people should act like my dog Lucy and just stay inside under the bed and tremble...
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18981514
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The rain pelted down, it got dark, and they couldn't see a thing. The wind roared like a thousand locomotives.
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189720
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When the writer expressed with subtle alacrity that he adored the painter, she was flattered and didn't raise objection. The writer-in his aloof manner, with experienced caution-pointedly wrote a poem directly for his muse. She never spoke of it, and hi
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189750
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“No, dad, I've never seen urine colored pearls.”
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189700
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She wanted to have an eating disorder, but she liked food too much to stop eating it and hated the taste of vomit mixed with tooth paste.
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189773
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Why don't we do it in a yellow submarine?
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1897169
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homelessness, you called the lie,
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189620
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His mother was not an aw-come-here-honey-and-give-me-a-hug type mom. She was the kind of mother who, if you had some kind of problem, would suggest that perhaps it might be a good idea to volunteer (she was really big on volunteering) at some sort of orga
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