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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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I bought some charlatan art / and hung it on the wall
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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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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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I thought each day died inside the clock.
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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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And Mickey said to the reporter, "I wrote a play for Richard. It is the wild play I performed with Richard. I think he will like this shit."
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After she died, clearing out her safe deposit box at the local bank, I found more numberplates.
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dicks, skulls and upside down crosses
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The younger woman asked Scott if he loved Jesus.
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When you bring information, it does not arrive.
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I can confirm nothing/
but impressions of the world//
that appear beyond my/
body’s reach.
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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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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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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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The drip of rank meat, his muzzle, his back-barbed tongue: red.
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People suck. They suck you down, and if you're not careful, they'll ruin you.
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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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The cabin has windows all around, like ribbon tying a birthday present.
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When Kat returned home from The East Street Wars, she learned that her epileptic lover, White Dog, died from madness
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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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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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I flung the basketball at the hoop and Cooper shagged the ball. He was the luckiest bastard I knew. ...
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Moon Boy sits atop the hill's crest and watches Moon Girl.
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Also in development,/
the anatomically perfect robot/
pool boy and naughty maid,
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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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It is a sunny day in the autumn of the patriarch.
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