1691 7 3
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Looking at his pale and pimpled flesh, he was repulsed by his flaccid and lifeless member. The accompanying bits, dangled about far from his frame as the summer heat drew them away from his sweaty and unwashed body.
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1691 8 6
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The old man behind the counter recognizes fear and anxiety in the boy's face, and sees the brown paper bag clenched in his other white-knuckled hand.
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1691 13 13
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Train whistles in wintertime made him feel lonely.
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1691 4 4
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Your kiss has spread like a fever, persistent and catastrophic for an ill-prepared heart like mine.
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1691 8 4
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In the middle of the floor squatted a sway-backed butcher block that appeared to have been chopped upon with such force as to make it cower.
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1691 9 6
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That Bronte woman had me painted like Eminem’s Stan
Or a droog from Kubrick
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1690 3 3
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Do you know first hiss of batter hitting groundnut oil in a shallow pan, I ask, on a morning after a long, dream-ridden sleep?
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1690 18 16
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I can’t take my eyes off a tall blonde with green eyes. I catch her eye.
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1690 9 7
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The drip of rank meat, his muzzle, his back-barbed tongue: red.
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1690 20 6
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She lifts her head, nose heavenward. There’s a wet spot on my dress from our lovemaking, its aroma as heady as Claudine’s bouillabaisse. I hope she smells it.
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1690 8 6
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1690 2 1
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"Look, Ted, I'm on a timer. It's really hell here, you can't imagine. And I have a chance to get paroled early, if you do me a solid."
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1690 9 7
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I stand at the edge of the water naked as a newborn. Tiny ripples lick my toes.
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1690 12 8
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Are they too old for life's little pleasures? The answer comes as I pass them on the canyon road one morning.
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1690 21 19
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I once read a book of warnings.
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1690 11 10
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I should have known to wear boots on Teddy’s motorcycle, but I didn’t know that when the engine heated the exhaust pipe became hot as a griddle. Teddy didn’t warn me, and I thought there was something wrong with that, but I let it go the way I jumped on h
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1689 11 5
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A compliment is candy to the heartbroken, oxygen to a suffocating flame. The best hunter picks his prey carefully, selecting his line like an archer pulling an arrow from a quiver, quickly and efficiently, then flick! the line cuts through the air and…
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1689 5 3
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“No names,” she said. “I am the mysterious woman, and you are the handsome stranger.”
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1689 8 7
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When the full moon changes trajectory and comes close it pushes you to different gravitational fields
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1689 3 2
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Woman With Water Bottles has taken up a little spot in the back of my brain, her hair tickling her eyes in the breeze.
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1689 13 7
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Eons later, Bobo evolves into Shakespeare. Bonus feature: wings.
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1689 7 0
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[TURN-ONS: willingness. TURN-OFFS: rejection.]
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1689 5 5
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“Dear, baby, what do you fear?”
Or maybe it was, “Now here are the keys to the lock.”
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1688 0 0
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And it whispered like any wood. And the blade moaned when he got too deep and tried to cut too much. And as the dead parts of him came off, in tendrils and dust, the man's chest began to move, like the hands around his heart had let go.
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1688 0 0
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The latest teen abuse of an ordinary household item? Late-night “lint roller” parties at which boys and girls engage in heavy “feel-up” sessions that can lead to unwanted pregnancies, white slavery and in extreme cases, marriage.
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1688 11 11
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This is the place I could find my breath. I didn'tSay I understood it. I only wanted to hold someone andMeant to. I don't care about the rules for caring.This place where I could speak was incredibly far from Where I'd once met you. The place where I could…
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1688 2 1
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Mower hits a rock and the blades scream.
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1688 29 14
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You say boxer briefs, I say pillbox hats
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1688 21 12
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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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1688 13 2
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The child closed her eyes again. Outside was sparkling, sharp looking, when she blinked he’d be here, like when she went to sleep and found outside had been whitened with snow. She closed her eyes and opened them, then closed them again. When she opened
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