1724 6 3
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Her skin is muddy earth/
I'd gladly play in.
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172484
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A girl waiting at the door, heart in a Ziploc. An elderly woman stopping at the bank. A bear in a screaming contest with a troop of girl scouts.
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1724109
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"Lately I've been thinking a baby's the only way I might be able to hang on to you."
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172398
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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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172352
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And the voodoo pins pinged as, folding and imploding, she was reduced to a petro-chemical puddle.
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1723103
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She refuses to let her eyes cry. Her eyes played tricks on her and showed her one thing was really another. They don't deserve to cry.
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17231211
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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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172211
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I keep my life very ordered. Order for me is security. I am sure of some things. Like the fact I work five nights a week, and sleep during the day.
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172221
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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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17221812
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There's a man sitting in my room holding a jar of my ashes. That's what he claims.
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17221011
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The man of a thousand faces was defunct.
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1722147
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a bird who gives messages
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17221615
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When I died, she said, she was going to have me cremated and put my ashes in the cats’ litter box.
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172235
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The vampire donated floodlights so the children could play ballgames at night. The lights came on but the dugouts remained vacant. The vampire sat alone in the bleachers. “Sometimes I am less than the sum of my parts,” he said to the sum of his parts.
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17211819
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Where we live, at the edge of the foothills at the east edge of town, fire is always a worry during the summer, and this has been an exceptionally dry year.
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172111
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Eyes so much deeper, that the internal flow could not hope to equal the intensity fired beyond iris, pupil and sclera. So blue, that life could not exist in the fragile shape of his heart, blue veins outlining an ever enlargening circumference…
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172165
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This is Jorge. He was a good little monkey. And always curious.Like the time he and his friend, the man in the amarillo sombrero, had to fly to Japan. *Jorge sat by the window. Watched the ground get further away. Until they were above the clouds. He looked out…
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172131
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We’re all competitive and drunk.
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172181
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In between ketchup-covered fries, a Quarter Pounder, and a vanilla shake, catty comments, and lots of laughs, Marylou slipped in her announcement, a grenade in a rose garden. “I'm pregnant,” she said.
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172111
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“I will become a respected novelist!” proclaimed Billy.
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1721119
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The taste of / what is denied us is always sweet
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1721177
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Through its branches we saw a couple. Teenagers, narrow and pale, two young birch trees, their roots twisted, submerged in the water.
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172055
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He has one good eye and is missing the other. The socket of his missing eye squints with a disturbing and unfathomable insight.
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17202117
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After breakfast, he dresses and heads / for the blackjack tables.
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172000
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The moonlight illuminated Dahlia’s bare breasts. She remembered when Gerard used to appreciate them.
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17201413
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I formed a snowball in my bare hands. Hard as a rock, I let her fly.
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1720117
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when the surface of a photograph gets like this that it has gone blind
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1720173
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My swinging purse sent saucers tinkling to the tile and the copper-headed waitress flew over, swooping on the shatter, clutching clean forks like a handful of flowers.
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172010
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After nine months, I was granted early parole...
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17201312
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She was thrilled when she learned that her best friend was having an affair.
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