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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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an ominous figure of fear and grace a ball moves back and forth
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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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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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the future wrapped up in a dream
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You were at a saloon on Water Street. Witnesses say. You were taken out of the place and put on a sloop against your will. Witnesses don’t say.
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He is drilling the door of a safe to access the keys he locked inside.
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184187
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what is raised up must rest on its foundation.
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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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A son packs his bag - bottled water, extra masks, and jerky. Mom paces behind him. “Don't go.”
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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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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …
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"Merry Christmas, Willie."
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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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It was all I was convinced / in designing the encounter.
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I thought each day died inside the clock.
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Jack would have felt betrayed, and my parents alarmed, had they ever suspected me of playing with Jack's guns, but I found the temptation overwhelming.
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Sometimes he could feel so small he believed he could fit through the eye of a needle.
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You took up residence on the dark side of things, a bolthole in a wind-flayed right angle of a tower block where pigeons and suicides tumbled blackly on the air currents. You set about drifting off from who you were on a tide of cheap whisky and bad poetry, graduating…
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I awake one morning to find that still,
the leaves continue to fall.
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Also in development,/
the anatomically perfect robot/
pool boy and naughty maid,
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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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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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When her husband left she was not yet thirty
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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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