1866 10 9
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The tiny green light flashing in the lawn of an apartment building one night that caught Roberta’s attention while we were walking home from Café Vita.
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18661615
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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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186611
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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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18661411
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18661615
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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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18651715
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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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186521
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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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186521
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She persisted. “How long have we been here?”
A note of anger crept into his voice. “How long? How long? Why …, why ….” He swallowed hard, realized he had forgotten.
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18651210
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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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186585
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"There is something in the air. It makes people sick, makes them want to die. They
cannot inhale too deeply for fear that it will turn them mad."
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186542
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your leather jacket zip has left a row of teethmarks on her arm
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186466
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When she finally arrived it was like a cello playing inside me
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18641212
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186411
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After lunch it's vocal coaching: shrieking, screaming, crying Oh-my-God!-Oh-my-God!-Oh-my-God!, panting and face fanning. Next it's ‘situational training', where we pretend to be audience members on real talk shows and practice everything we've learned th
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186433
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Blacked-out out on junk, I bet money on a sport I hated just last year.
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1864102
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Time
Holds
Ultimately
Nothing
Dear
Except
Reunion
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186497
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They say
it was like an elephant
married to a dove.
Imagine, me,
a dove!
Ridículo!
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186432
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The ideas just came to them. "Nothing On" consisted of a television on a small stand, playing an endless loop of "Jersey Shore." "Shopping Bores Me" was a men's flannel shirt from American Apparel on an otherwise empty rack.
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1863106
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I turn up the music and slip into drone, rock it like a tunnel in canary. When that does not erase his face, I cup my breast with one hand and let my hair fall.
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186322
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I got to Victoria station at quarter to eleven on a Friday with nothing but a small leather bag and the vague idea of getting out of London.
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1863119
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They both have an annoying habit. She talks to him while she's in another room, and he doesn't answer because he can't hear what she's saying.
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1863105
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Truth came out of it, a little bug that hovered there...
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186399
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They sat before the fire and played cribbage. He was a good player, but not as good as she was.
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1863104
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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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186330
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the white moon is dangling
by a thread tonight
you close your eyes
and listen to it undress
and suppress, suppress
you listen to it undress
while you yourself hang lifeless
in your own arms
not meaning to do yourself any
harm, not
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186335
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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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18621412
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He says, You think too much and he grins a grin that has all of the attic keys on a wrought iron ring, on a chain.
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186233
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To what better worlds remain.
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18621817
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Buddy was in a garage band. They were pretty good. “Soul Harbor“ they called themselves.
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186200
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As we sat at the cafe, Darrell told me that he had to make a mushroom delivery to one of his clients in Berkeley. I never knew whether it was legal or illegal business he was on, and he made a point of not telling me, because he said it was better I didn
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