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Mid-Dawn//Mid-Dusk -- Wait for me.
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185991
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She was skinny and with breasts like a wound up skein of yarn.
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1859101
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I told you that I have homicidal urges that alternate with ones of the suicidal kind. You flicked an imaginary speck of dust from your fat, fleshy forefinger with your ultra-flexible, wimpy thumb.
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185997
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I’ve been such a fool, so reckless and untrue.
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1858137
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Here’s how you do it. First you get a ladder, a long one.
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1858105
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It’s a song you knew once, begin to remember now: You’ve had this dream before.
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185899
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“Have you ever thought what stars are made of?”
“No,” he said.
The man nodded seriously. “I hadn’t either. Not until I met the Star Catcher. He told me all the stars in the universe are actually coins. Coins! Big coins. Small coins. Different colors
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185883
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I walked on hot coals. She got ahead of me. (228 words)
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1858134
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His hands go up and down on me. You love me don't you he says. I don't know I say.
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185833
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“Turn the fucking thing off!” I yelled above the noise. “It’s fucking New Year’s morning!”
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185844
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She has a mercenary way of doing business and she's pretty shrewd. I make her stand outside to smoke her cigarette. I stay inside watching her stance as she violently tugs at the barrel, tearing every ounce of smoke out of it, then stamping it out as I wo
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185863
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Marlene smiles at me with her lips pressed together. The young girl standing with her can't be more than fourteen or fifteen although she is tall for her age. She too smiles. She has an intricate set of braces on her teeth. I can't tell if Marlene has teeth
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185864
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Some people might find it strange and a bit obsessive to mow their lawn every day, but to Shiram it was an irreplaceable part of his daily existence.
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It is a well-known fact that my wife sleeps around. There. I said it and now everyone knows that I too know about my wife. Let me just tell you this one thing; she has her reasons. You ask me how I know that she has her reasons, but who would know better than…
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185840
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I hadn't yet assembled enough pieces of Italian to explain any of this, but it was hardly necessary. The fact that I was a scrittore in a language foreign to her seemed to make me especially fascinating...
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1858148
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You always complained that Christmas/
ruined your birthday/
sister.
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185796
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The thunder rolled like an old Bob Dylan tour...
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185766
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But the best thing about Rebekah
was the way she floated always
beneath the scent of woodburn
and dusty Middle America,
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185774
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The investigator starts by accumulating facts, as many facts as he can. He sifts through them with meticulous precision, leaving no leaf unturned, no page unread.
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185743
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The mouth on my breasts is hungry, searching, needing...
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185763
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When the world is quiet, all your thoughts demand attention.
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185781
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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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185710
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After nine months, I was granted early parole...
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185742
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He picked up a pack of cigarettes and shook it. He flipped the lid to confirm there were none left.
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185640
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And without further ado, The Author.
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If I had been a cat you probably would have kept me forever, even with an incurable disease. I think about that every time I clean the litter pan, especially late at night.
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I knew it was just a matter of time...
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My mother and I are close We talk like friends I tell her about people I'm dating She gets excited for me And she asks how it's going When I tell her I think I'm gay She says nothing She does not ask about the woman I am seeing She does not ask how I am doing …
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