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I flip up my hoodie, pull the string tight across my lips until it cuts into them, pull tighter, saw back and forth until blood warms the hairs on my chin.
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187684
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Cleaning the dust bunnies from under our lives, Zin says she wants to move to the country, maybe someplace as big as Texas. She claims that lately she's having trouble breathing between bricks or talking to hot chestnut vendors with rubber faces. It's giving her nightmares…
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1876105
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there she was, this beautiful duck with her 4 beautiful babies, under my bush.
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187621
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A plague of dykes mattered not. This spider-girl had driven the world of thought from Borden’s mind.
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187640
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There was that long weekend she'd spent lazing around a suite at the Beverly Wilshire between the Golden Globes and the Oscars with the suddenly now married actor, and then there had been Cabo. This was before the current thing and before the thing before
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187686
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There was something wrong with this picture. Was he the man she had slept with last night?
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18761210
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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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187697
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They say
it was like an elephant
married to a dove.
Imagine, me,
a dove!
Ridículo!
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187600
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Oh, and take off all your jewelry unless you want your relatives sifting you through a window screen looking for your diamond.
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18761615
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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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187601
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I watch my brother carry her into the hospital, and I love him with parts of myself I didn’t know were capable of love. I love my brother with the space behind my eyes, the skin between my fingers, the ends of my hair, the crease in my neck. I love him wi
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187662
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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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187610
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I don't really know, though. I've been locked in a beer cave for the last ten years of my life. I was just let out by some frat boys who were looking for Natty Light.
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18752016
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The custard of eternity is scooped into
the quantum cone of knowledge and drips
out the bottom one lifetime at a time.
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187598
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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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187533
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Hi, I'm Alexander Payne. I hate sex.
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187542
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Two people are talking. They are both wearing hats.
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18751913
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The squirrels will not stop peeing on the trees.
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187522
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No one is a Puritan under all that powder!
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187576
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There’s not enough cigarette cloud to conceal her, malnourished and pale beneath blue and pink lights that summon 80s-era skate rinks. She saunters towards the center of the stage, asking her bored expression to convey detachment, while a DJ that fits the
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187520
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They were starting to get winded. The boy, his father and his little brother were hiking up a hill, cutting a diagonal path through hay-colored grass towards an outcrop of craggy boulders below the hill's summit.
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1875136
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The three were up early to await the deer with rifles, ammunition, and coffee.
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1875114
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A wall of icons can be beautiful if you don’t look closely at the hands. The hands tell stories of too short lives and unrequited love.
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187473
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Maybe she thinks in Czech, dreams in German, pretends in English. Babylon is a beautiful place after all.
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18741715
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Before the days of “customer experience,” Eddie figured out whatever information he could about his clients. He asked them for business cards, recorded their phone numbers from the reservation book, snapped photos of them in his mind…
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187421
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My name is Lu-chen Wyatt, and I have watched this tomb for seven years with undying loyalty. Tomorrow I am going away, and I wish to set down the story of my leaving and to say goodbye to Set-Yi, whose burial place has been my home for so long.
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1874128
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"Everything except food and sex."
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187441
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fated and cruel, a person I don't love
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187310
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“What I really want to know is, why is a straight guy called Caspar opening a lesbian leather bar in Berlin anyway?” Shona asked. “Schöneberg must really be going to the dogs.”
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187320
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A universe, all of it, was encased in glass.
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