1838 16 10
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You anchor the real
You make love to the true
I am bound to you in consecration
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183788
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I can confirm nothing/
but impressions of the world//
that appear beyond my/
body’s reach.
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183722
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Next to you, the mother tightens her grip on her stroller. The young teenager tears her gaze from her mobile phone for an instant.
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18371612
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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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183766
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A son packs his bag - bottled water, extra masks, and jerky. Mom paces behind him. “Don't go.”
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183713
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"Carl, do you think we can fit all of our furniture into that red house?" Jeanne asks. She wonders how easily you could burn a red house down, if a claw foot tub will melt or be left standing in a field of black grass. He reaches for her hair, the dizzy smell…
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183720
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The cabin has windows all around, like ribbon tying a birthday present.
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1837156
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183752
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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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183676
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He hasn't had a wedding ring in years. When George's knuckles began to swell — a little arthritis — his ring dug into his finger so bad his wife Loren took him to the ER and had it cut off. The ring, not the finger. He never knew there was a tool to cut rings,…
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183682
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The Numbers will never romp up the stairs from the laundry room to slip warm socks on your feet on a winter’s night.
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183620
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a store called ROCKING FROCKS. In its window was a black tee shirt that said in big white letters, I'M NOT A SLUT, I'M WITH THE BAND.
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183633
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Waking in the middle of the night, tangled in the hotel sheets, I wanted to hear the story again: their pilot friend, the war, his specialty. "It's just a screw, son," Dad said, "nothing exotic."
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183666
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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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183612
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Moon Boy sits atop the hill's crest and watches Moon Girl.
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183600
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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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183697
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The drip of rank meat, his muzzle, his back-barbed tongue: red.
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183688
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dicks, skulls and upside down crosses
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183662
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"What is a vageena?" I wanted to know.
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183633
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Susan was twenty-four when it happened again, but she had neither the patience nor the attachment to see it through.
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1836136
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4. Hers blocking driveway, his diagonal in grass
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1836157
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It is a sunny day in the autumn of the patriarch.
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183676
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That morning, four children appeared in front of the train, which was ready to depart
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183612
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It wasn’t funny. It wasn’t scary. It wasn’t great. And it never is with people.
Except..eventually..when you meet the right person..it is.
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183655
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Alessandro was no ordinary demon (what demon is?), insofar as he had Constable Pulce's number. In demonly fashion he had Pulce's number in a way Pulce himself did not.
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183522
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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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183575
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I was Orson Welles skulking in the shadows and you Alida Valli;
our time measured like footsteps advancing on Gethsemane.
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18352214
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I thought each day died inside the clock.
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183521
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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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