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the/ orange/ tastes/ welcome
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I am tired of playing the old game: Saying something old in a new way. So let me do the opposite:
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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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Nothing about it//
is attractive- its color, it’s design,/
it’s market value. I leave it be and watch
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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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I took it in my hands and used it on my lips. The taste was just hers: her touch, her smell, her breath in the winter nights. She was in this. Everything we had was in this tube.
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the air is a fierce tangerine tonight
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If you want job security on this planet, you'd better study art.
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This weekend was supposed to be about intellect and soul-mating, but, like all others, it's turned into body and longing. You sit in my passenger seat and I let you smoke in my wee car with the windows rolled down. We've come from a wedding, a fairy ring, a…
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He thought the scarab was bad luck. I knew too little about omens to argue.
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The Viper turns so quickly that Father's grabbing hand now faces its head instead of its tail.
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It was all I was convinced / in designing the encounter.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. All was confusion in the Lubrecht house. Baby Lubrecht had discovered that his favorite blankey, thought by him to have been lost, was in fact being used by his older sister, Lilly Lubrecht.…
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"What is a vageena?" I wanted to know.
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Tony sat down in the hotel room with his back against the wall. He had a handsome face, with three-day stubble growing from it, his pupils very large as if frightened by something, or from deep thought. In his hand, was the winning lottery, Periodically he would get up…
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We stopped at the Western Summit of the Mohawk Trail. Below Richland lay in the valley. I could see all the way to New York State and well into Vermont. From memory, I picked out the Hoosac River running south under the railroad
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Three months had passed since the grease fire melted Jasmine's face.I sat beside her on the hospital bed and held her clamy hand as she trembled. "No more stir-fry," I joked. The doctor and nurse faked a chuckle. Jasmine might have, but the bandages muffled…
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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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Matthias Fenstermacher loved onions, but hated slicing them, and so he labored to produce a tearless variety. His first attempt was indeed tearless--instead of weeping, the slicer was overcome by fits of uncontrollable giggles. The potential hazard was
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The bird studies me, we lock stares, with no care for who blinks first, birds don’t do macho stand-off.
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the future wrapped up in a dream
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Assimilated wheat germ
integrated ant worm
the capital of brazil.
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The javelin was cancelled after the unfortunate incident with Mrs Parker last year, but no one could have predicted this year’s sack race tragedy.
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The man and the whore lay in bed together. It was a cold night and they were warmed by the heat beneath the…
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That put a real crimp in our already crimped sex life. Actually I didn’t mind as much as Allison minded. It made her real grumpy when she didn’t get laid. I could never understand how she could bear so much pain, because she was so small that it was l
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Does flight exhilarate the sparrows
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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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Pauleen tries to split open her legs because she doesn’t understand how to love someone without them.
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