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Funny, you can drink wine and eat stale crackers, but you cannot suck a simple lollipop? Where does it say that in the bible? Nowhere, that’s where.
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178900
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The moonlight illuminated Dahlia’s bare breasts. She remembered when Gerard used to appreciate them.
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17892412
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Man waters Earth with his eyes.
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178921
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Two months after Peter moved out, it opened on the eastern-leaning boulevard, a stone's throw from the water. Caitlin heard about it from a friend at a bar three weeks after that, found that the concept wouldn't quietly settle in her mind, and made plans
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178933
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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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178998
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If you get crushed in New York City
that's your own problem.
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178900
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He came to us with wandering tales of wild things
Savage, biting, slashing, tearing
A violent voice boomed becoming of beasts
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178986
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“No,” he says. A simple lie. “I -” He pushes the sleeping bag off of his legs. Their getaway reset was a mistake.
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178965
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I have two memories of my dad. The first is a story he liked to tell: So my old woman came home one day with a worm. She sets the worm on the counter and goes into…
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17891511
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They say, we have hangnails.
I say, I have a bruised leg.
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178900
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Just as he expected, the reaction was spontaneous, euphoric and unequivocally positive. With just one exception. A politician connected with the home service of his parliamentary section's boss, with the mobile phone number 0-609-3459812, and known for hi
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178886
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you hear the knell of kindness
long before its cathedral voices -- a recessional --
barters better times.
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178831
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I can only see their eyes in the dark, reflected in the light from my flashlight. It's so quiet. I only hear the sound of my own breath. I hold the flashlight steady. Maybe they will think I'm not a threat if I'm not moving. It's a small hope. Yet here we are, at a…
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178833
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My love for him like wax wings/
so long they stretched eternal—
beating in the sky, grazing peaks,
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178876
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The World's Worst Mime stood there next to the iron carousel, portraying something, and the crowd understood none of it, except that whatever thing he was trying to portray was not being portrayed well at all.
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1788124
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It rises rigid and plumb from its heavy base, the severity of line yielding to grace only at the throat where it crests into a subtly constrictive pinch.
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17872410
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Clayton had a grin like the hand of a beast that stretched as long as her gravel road...
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17871514
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You need buttered broths and to
copy old writings by hand by
very poor light.
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178766
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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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178722
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When the sky was thinner and water faster, we would chase the falling stars.
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178700
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When I think about love, I actually think about life. And when I think about that, I wonder if we’re really who we used to be.
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178732
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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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178732
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He kept the lawn mowed at the perfect height. He mowed it twice a week to one inch. Some weeks he mowed it a third time for good measure.
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1787119
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What if I never feel like a real artist? What does it even mean to be a "real" artist? What if nobody ever cares about what I make?
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178731
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It’s me walking in on you shooting up in the diner’s cesspool of a
shitter, and you trying to conceal the evidence while you’re telling
me it’s straight up your first time.
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178741
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The DC-9 bounced in the turbulence over the north Pacific waking the dozing Ben Clarone.
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17871812
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1786119
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Librarians are hiding something. What is it?
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178611
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A famous author and an inspired writer meet at a coffee shop, both looking for inspiration. The patrons there don’t know if this meeting is by accident or design, but they are in awe of Fame.
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On Saturday nights, they dream of you. You are the gas station they can’t own, the lottery they can’t win. You are beating up their boss, giving him a headache that will last through Wednesday morning, keep him home half the week.
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