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D'ya have to be so rough?
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The blue whale in the bathtub weighed one hundred tons and wore a grin like the Cheshire cat on steroids. Her smile stretched from wall to wall. Her blowhole scraped the ceiling. Sam never learned how she crammed her tail down into the drainpipe,…
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146183
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I was making good bread as a New York studio musician and jingle writer, anonymous back-room jobs.
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14612315
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This is the story of the man whose wife lived in his neck. Every morning, he would turn to her and say, "Hello, Sweetheart. How was your night?" and she would answer, Brilliant! What else?
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14611914
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Maddy knew how to make a sauce. It embraced the meat in a thick, buttery ooze.
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146197
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God's real name is Frank, and he stops by all the time. He tries to dump that cheap Xmas candy on us.
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146175
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my God, I have no time, no time
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146186
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the swan drives a car ( window down; wing half hanging out ) …
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146100
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I am gonna pound you face through that plate glass protective door until everyone who needs help can get in without your judgy face looking at them.
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14611515
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I dreamt I was spinning down the coast in a convertible. It was warm, and the top was down.
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146100
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Emi however, took her sister’s arm and looked at the bandage. Her normal green eyes stared coldly at the wound made by one of the large centipedes. Mayumi realized there was some sense of emotion from Emi wanting to come out.
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1461129
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My man wears chartreuse shoes.!
He wears chartreuse shoes like a new king
right there on Main St.!
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146171
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"Take a chance, Bill," she said, "Like Eddie across the hall did. Tess told me he marched right into his boss and demanded a raise. He pointed out how much they needed him and they gave him twenty-five dollars more a week.
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146197
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the array of regularly spaced wavering human forms floating upright seems to extend endlessly in all directions.
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146065
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We didn't wear shoes in the summer, except for Sunday school and church. The soles of our feet were black and tough as shoe leather.
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146073
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see this:/ ink-stained paper/ littering miles
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146058
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Mama hung them everywhere. It started with just a few, in our apartment and outside on the brick. She made walls into windows.
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1460108
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Half-pint Ball canning jars, each labeled in earnest capital letters, took up a whole wall of Teeny’s bedroom. Inside each jar was air she had collected from some place important to her life.
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1460136
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Attached in the center were the petals of a small flower pressed in wax paper. Uncreased, she read it out loud
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14601212
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They'd taken so much: ivory, rubber, copper, gold. Wealth for the grabbing. No remorse.
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1460157
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It is a sunny day in the autumn of the patriarch.
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146042
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A father's soft neglect has repercussions.
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146033
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"Dad, I already told you about your wife. She’s not coming."
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146042
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the moon's got it out for
the far-sighted
punkish usuper supping
on the upswing of
a downward slope
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It’s the unfinished sentences
Of the children on our refrigerators
That worry me the most
It’s the Fake News
It’s all the people
Living in their shopping carts
Without shoes
It’s the abandoned shoe
On the street
And the Abandoned S
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145900
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Deployed to Afghanistan for more than half of his two-year marriage, Trent is coming home for the holidays. But which holiday, exactly? And will he make it?
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145964
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There were days in my youth when, through no fault of their own, my parents could not drive me the seven mile trip to my elementary school. When I got older they bought me a bike and that proved duly adequate as conveyance. But when I was six years in age
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145921
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Paper Bird, Devotchka, TV On The Radio
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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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