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The thunder rolled like an old Bob Dylan tour...
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187400
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Some say the simurgh is an enormous bird with four wings, teeth, and a human face, able to carry off an elephant in her talons.
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187463
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When the world is quiet, all your thoughts demand attention.
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1874117
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My wife and I are cat people. Indeed, that's how we met. We met at a wake.
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187431
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"Heaven-high, choking on our own breath and each other's tongues."
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187300
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18731213
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The moonlight news is brutal
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187300
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Unadorned tragedies pinpoint the worst angles of the road; simple crosses or bouquets line boulders painted with car crash smoke or skid marks that tiptoe to the edge of cliffs and then, apparently, leap.
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187320
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Nothing more savory than gossip relayed in confidential tones.
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187363
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Her skin is muddy earth/
I'd gladly play in.
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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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On the birthday before he started school, he received a pencil case from his paternal grandparents. The violet, oblong pouch contained a pencil and a pencil sharpener in the same color. He didn't remember what had happened with the pencil or the sharpener, but he had…
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You always complained that Christmas/
ruined your birthday/
sister.
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187283
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I walked on hot coals. She got ahead of me. (228 words)
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187274
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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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I knew it was just a matter of time...
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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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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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Nick frowned, the changing of the leaves reminding him of the graying of his hair.. He'd never appreciated the colors of fall, as they heralded frost, winter, which he hated more and more each passing year.
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187210
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After nine months, I was granted early parole...
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18721110
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i never much liked Elvis
never did then never do now
he was no Kris Kristofferson
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Two fine-young-things scan the menu board of In-N-Out Burger off Interstate 101. Dressed like twins -- hoop earrings, tank-tops and mini-skirts, ballet pumps — you could hardly tell them apart, except for their Cleopatra and Marilyn Manson hairstyles. As they…
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The Bridge Barstow had not wanted to listen to Griff. Griff was not making the right decisions, or he thought Griff was not making the right decisions. Thought he was walking a…
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187210
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I saw the little family that lives
under the neighbor's backyard deck
two weeks before while decapitating grasslets
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187211
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Let there fly the sticky platypus of love, resplendent beak of the sleek.
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The contrast can be summed up in a sip.
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187110
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As Gino exited the supermarket, plastics bags in tow, he began doing curls with his right arm. He’d been doing this for years, reasoning that he might as well get some exercise during the walk home.
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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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i miss you/
at times unbearably/
a dull ache that won’t quit
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