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Life seemed okay…for the most part.
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1719108
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Because if they’re wavering, it's about the coin, always about the coin.
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I liked the taste in my mouth, mint and cigarettes and fresh and filthy.
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....the first/
in a long history of indignities.
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171974
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She said he was missing the whole point: it was a decoration, not an actual pillow. You were supposed to place it somewhere artful.
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171953
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It's a pretty strange feeling when you think you're about to bite into some ice cream and instead it's gazpacho.
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Leonard didn't know that cute girl well, hardly at all, but he really wanted to. She was his first real crush in Junior High. He got his chance and talked to her some one day while they were walking down the hall between classes. She actually spoke to him first. The bell…
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In San Francisco, there rides at night a phantom streetcar whose driver is none other than Walt Whitman . . .
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A constellation appears in the shape of Van Gogh’s missing ear.
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That's what friends told him.He looks at the unpacked boxes around the apartment, hoping he hadn't packed any of her stuff in his haste.
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171800
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What a hoot men are. For years I tried to get Jim to share the cooking. This is how that worked. One Monday night I'd whipped up a meal of steak, tossed salad, two veggies, and dessert with coffee. The next day was Jim's turn to cook and he came home
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The air is dry and smoky from a fire some miles away. The air is cool. A pair of vultures is soaring in a circle high above the rising land.
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Great Uncle did stunts in silents and shot a man in a cowboy one-reeler, then vanished to the hills like Roy Earle in High Sierra.
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Emma pushes through the door of the corner market, aiming briskly for her car, keys in one hand, grocery bag in the other, shoulder bag slung. Best not to make eye contact with the loitering boozers and bikers from the bar next door. Double take. Can't…
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Maybe all quarterbacks are shitwads.
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His head was usually full of ah ha!, a luminescence that folded around obstacles like smoke.
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Sometime that night I heard one; you get so you know when they’re coming in low down the valley or set up high over the coastals and I was sure about it.
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Buddy was in a garage band. They were pretty good. “Soul Harbor“ they called themselves.
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171711
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The tiles begin inching toward him as soon as he moves. You've seen filings on glass. He's the magnet on the underside.
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"What the hell does profligate mean?!" He shouted.
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I bought the goldfish at different pet shops out of town, a few at a time, until I had two hundred or more in the freezer.
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I. When my lips mouth yours where they are…
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When i close my eyesI see the faces of the deadI hear their voices The things they said, their laughter The ones i thought would live forever!! Something got them though: the ones who lived fastIt was a drug, some bullets, a disease I thought they would live forever!!Those…
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In the morning, I lay on my side and ran a finger down the girl’s back, lightly tracing her spine. I remarked on the whiteness of her skin.
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The hair on my arms have greyed, or so that's how it looks to me. It's been 12 years since we last spoke. I think I haven't aged too well. I bought a rocking chair.
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