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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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1838114
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Mounds of earth and grassless ground
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183844
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The signal sets the faint young boys into motion
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183854
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Never touch David Letterman's neck!
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With such a world/
one must invent a heaven
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dicks, skulls and upside down crosses
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183852
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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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183876
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That morning, four children appeared in front of the train, which was ready to depart
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183766
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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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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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183762
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"What is a vageena?" I wanted to know.
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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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183733
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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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183764
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He had stared at the back of his neck for so long that images of his nape flashed into view randomly throughout the day like interfering signals from a station just out of reach, DESIRE CHANNEL, or something, reminding him of his skewed priorities, his fa
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183712
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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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183755
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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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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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18362214
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I thought each day died inside the clock.
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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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183684
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I awake one morning to find that still,
the leaves continue to fall.
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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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