1819 16 12
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Indeed, it was quite likely that no one in town had ever played either of these games. The townsfolk were not big fans of word games, though they did enjoy Whist and Canasta.
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181900
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said you loved me
told some jokes
aren’t you dying?
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1819119
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"Jesus was a zombie?" I ask, shocked.
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18191715
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With such a world/
one must invent a heaven
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181921
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“Excuse me–where are the pig’s feet?”
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1819157
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It is a sunny day in the autumn of the patriarch.
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181901
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I am reaching out at you, to you from the nest. From the nest, please come to the nest, to see me and to hear my life story. From the nest I go, and then I arrive at the nest, suddenly, just in time to be…
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181994
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I didn’t have toothpicks. You looked at me as if it summed up everything about me.
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18191715
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I loved to visit my grandparents when I was a kid.
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181885
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And because the film is French, the camera pauses / long moments at the curve of her neck, it watches/ her finger vermilion tulips in a vase. Her new lover,/ a wisp of a man, looks good in leather./ The camera pans quickly across beige suede,/ rests long
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1818108
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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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18171716
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That night he dreamed about a duel with toothbrushes....
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181702
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When Mavis is satisfied that her new man and I have met her criteria, and at long last she goes, no one will stand between me and the relentless boredom of my own company.
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181743
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"I accept it," Leo said in a low voice. "I accept it all. I know who I am, I know who you are, I might even know who Martin is, now. We all have to share this. I think I will forgive you, because I can'
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181766
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There is a push-up on the ceiling. I don't know how to get it down. I've tried hitting it with a broom. That just made it blow steam. I asked my wife, did you do push-ups on the ceiling? She did. Why? It's easier up there. The cat doesn't bother me. Well, you left…
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181700
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"Did I have a choice? Could I just open my eyes, did I have to ‘see’ as he was telling me now I could? I decided to go for it. What did I have to lose? This was all a dream, too much driving to get here, too much reunion, too much food, too much beer. Or
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181720
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I remember being sent a picture once from one of my old roommates, Louise, back in Chicago where I came from. The photo was taken when she’d come out for a visit to California. In the picture I am sitting on the front stairs of my house in the Rockridge
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181720
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The cabin has windows all around, like ribbon tying a birthday present.
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181752
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181752
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I considered explaining that the universe is still evolving and changing, but the look on her face said GENESIS ONE.
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181700
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"Being honest with me," said her teacher, "will hopefully allow you to be honest with yourself--writing is about being honest, and articulating that honesty."
It sounded like a riddle, and her teacher looked at her with the sanctimony of a wizard.
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181752
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Some books are like old friends and when you read them, you no longer feel alone.
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181610
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Conjoined - her hardened nipple brushing, softly, against him, his chest hair caressing her skin like a thousand hungry lovers’ fingers – the perfect moment lasted eternity.
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181622
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I flung the basketball at the hoop and Cooper shagged the ball. He was the luckiest bastard I knew. ...
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181621
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Mrs. Noah eyed the thickening clouds from the front stoop. Noah was still out in the yard kicking up sand in disgust, arguing with himself the whole time. Piles of cedar timber lay strewn all about. Maybe if they’d lived even three days’ journey clos
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181653
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Having sex with her there made me feel like a child molester, I said. She said it made her excited.
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181643
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Born, he stood up. He wore nothing as often as possible
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181643
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take back all the falderal
and friggin' fiddle dee dee
take back the mad murmuring
of ten minutes ago
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181600
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Black tagliatelle with squid and funghi porcini. He didn't understand why they called it a special, it had been in the menu since day one they had opened.
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181666
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The man went into his backpack and pulled out his book of crossword puzzles. The deluxe edition with fifty percent more puzzles for free. It had been an impulse buy from the bookstore, cost him four…
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