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The signal sets the faint young boys into motion
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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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188066
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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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188043
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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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Except, something about Margaret was a little off. She would stop typing suddenly and look up at the plant, studying it, almost as if daring it to cross her. Then, she would go back to her computer and start pounding away again.
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187940
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I had a dream. "And it was a long dream, as dreams go. . ."
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187943
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Born, he stood up. He wore nothing as often as possible
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187985
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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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187964
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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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18791914
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His work was done. For sixty years, beginning soon after his seventeenth birthday, he had listened to the gods- good, bad, somewhere in between-
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this reaching, this striving to love like it's there becoming something we need.
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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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“Ol’ Betty has a nice set of headlights,” he says with a wink as he springs out of the recliner.
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187953
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Our mothers died in childbirth. Taken in by the village, our new mothers taught us to wave at the river boats, to sell our trinkets to tourists. They offered us coins of a foreign currency and little pathetic smiles. By nightfall, our fingers bled. Then came…
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He thought the scarab was bad luck. I knew too little about omens to argue.
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187853
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Having sex with her there made me feel like a child molester, I said. She said it made her excited.
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187802
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When Mavis is satisfied that her new man and I have met her criteria, and at long last she goes, no one will stand between me and the relentless boredom of my own company.
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187866
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There is a push-up on the ceiling. I don't know how to get it down. I've tried hitting it with a broom. That just made it blow steam. I asked my wife, did you do push-ups on the ceiling? She did. Why? It's easier up there. The cat doesn't bother me. Well, you left…
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187764
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To hear my name, called out across the Roman stones on a bridge in Regensburg through the languid March drizzle,
was to breathe again as my head burst through the water.
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“No names,” she said. “I am the mysterious woman, and you are the handsome stranger.”
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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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187732
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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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187784
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They knew every word.
They knew EVERY word!
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187775
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my God, I have no time, no time
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187720
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The cabin has windows all around, like ribbon tying a birthday present.
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