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The younger woman asked Scott if he loved Jesus.
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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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180800
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an ominous figure of fear and grace a ball moves back and forth
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180753
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Hunger only makes people hungry, but bad hair can ruin your whole day.
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180721
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I look at that wall, it has piss-stain yellow paint and water scars from several years of leaky pipes. I say I wouldn’t mind that, if he took out some of that wall.
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1807119
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He asked me to bury him in Vegas.
Instead, I had him cremated in Trenton.
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1807193
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The snake was fang-less and so had to choke her, making the kill bloodless and drawn out, just the way she liked it.
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180733
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They said AK, AK, if you want to come here, if you want to come to Antioch, you have to bring your A+ game. If you want to run with the big boys. That’s what they said. So I brought my A+ game.
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180662
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180674
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"Merry Christmas, Willie."
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18062214
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I thought each day died inside the clock.
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180687
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what is raised up must rest on its foundation.
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1806123
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I'm explicating Emily Dickinson when the alarm starts: three long, two short. Lockdown mode. Only there was nothing in the staff bulletin about a drill. So I tell the students to get down on the floor, away from the window. I open the classroom door and lock it from…
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180612
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Moon Boy sits atop the hill's crest and watches Moon Girl.
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180600
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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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180630
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Warren Jeffries had called me on the phone the night before and said, “Listen to this,” as he held the receiver out his bedroom window at the noise coming from the riot on campus. They were spraying gas over People’s Park, trying to get them to disp
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180611
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There was an ownership about the makeshift carnival. There was a therapy there.
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1806147
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where is the magic at?
the spit
the dirt
or the words?
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180684
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I awake one morning to find that still,
the leaves continue to fall.
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18061814
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Also in development,/
the anatomically perfect robot/
pool boy and naughty maid,
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18061310
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I see my siblings once a year when we all show up, as if required by law, to eat Thanksgiving dinner. It is apparent with every bite how much they hate each other.
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18062111
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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …
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180655
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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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180555
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While the other kids blew bubbles, Maddy clung to my neck. She didn't cry or scream, and she held on loosely, not with the death grip some kids have. For five Wednesday afternoons, Maddy wrapped her pudgy arms over my shoulders and rested her bottom on m
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180520
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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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180565
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The bar sounds grew (as bar sounds will) until everything rushed together -- clinking glass, tinkling ice, laughter and zippers going down then up.
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180566
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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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His knife enters the Maui onion. He minces garlic and applies heat to pan and melts sweet cream butter and browns the garlic first and then he adds the onion and more heat, but it's time that will surely caramelize them. Salt and pepper and splashes of wine for the pan and…
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180562
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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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Hipster-neutral dressed simulacra-person offers a glance and a wave, sudden as a ping-pong serve, designed to crowd your space and "pal" you but I dodge it — I'm practiced at this.
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