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...the astonishing discovery...
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the ugliness will not be denied
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1740147
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I knew it was just a matter of time...
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174072
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leaning over the banister, her Christmas waist making the wood swoon and creak, a warning sign if there ever was one...
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1740911
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I answered with my usual economy of words. If someone wants more, they must ask, and he did.
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17401510
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It's so far to get to where we aren't inthe way of someone's destructive progress.I'm only walking in my own gardensnow, but the big blue house is like an emptiedout envelope. I guess that makes this themissing letter. I don't know your heart's newaddress, but I once…
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17401210
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She’d once read the Time-Life Encyclopedia on The Universe and became obsessed with the woman from Alabama who was singled out, by a rock from a far place, in her sleep.
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174054
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[marbles] [blither-blather] [blarg]
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174011
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We brought flowers for our dead lovers
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1739218
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173974
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173932
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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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173972
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It’s not just the mailman. It’s the logo on the mailbox down the street. It’s the uniform. It’s any man or woman in the whole unsettling profession.
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173911
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When Kim handed me some of her husband’s condoms—“Here, use these”—out of one of their bedroom dresser drawers, could she sense the astonishment I was trying my best not to show?
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1739115
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A nun once told me to watch my tongue. This is not an easy thing to do.
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173975
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He drifted for years: No forwarding. No phone.
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The night we crossed the Madres my father stuffed his Stetson full of cash.
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1739278
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They discovered the baby in the grass, under the snapping cotton sheets.
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173912
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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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1739104
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So, like I said. Da. I have dealt with the men, when I was a lap dancer. The men they need the….manipulations. I have good hands. They want me to see them naked, their power. Here it is only the women. The massage, the facial, the waxing...
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Reining her small hands around the molded handle grips, her bottom bouncing athwart and wildly off the seat, Symphony wrenches her center of gravity inward, commandeering as much control from the road it would allow. With her breaks behaving as stubborn
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1738107
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She thrust her proboscis through seven layers of dermis and began to suck, filling her belly with his Welbutrin and Xanax infused blood.
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173866
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I may be the shadow that I am, but I only ever loved you.
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173897
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I’ve been such a fool, so reckless and untrue.
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17381212
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you were very very small, you were everso small, you were like – the tiniest creature, hopping about on one leg
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17381611
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Is there a recipe for / lasting happiness?
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173862
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They stood at the intersection waiting for the light to change so they could cross the highway.
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He was still on the ground...
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173700
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stoplight - (haiku love series - #2)
eyes lock in a gaze
glimpses of my future spark
then you walk away
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17372010
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The contrast can be summed up in a sip.
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