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where is the magic at?
the spit
the dirt
or the words?
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180921
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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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180997
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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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180976
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That morning, four children appeared in front of the train, which was ready to depart
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180933
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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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18091512
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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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180900
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an ominous figure of fear and grace a ball moves back and forth
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180862
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180874
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"Merry Christmas, Willie."
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180855
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How would you like to leave the land of your ancestors, the place of your birth, the home of your identity?
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180855
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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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180800
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And Mickey said to the reporter, "I wrote a play for Richard. It is the wild play I performed with Richard. I think he will like this shit."
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180812
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Moon Boy sits atop the hill's crest and watches Moon Girl.
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180884
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I awake one morning to find that still,
the leaves continue to fall.
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18072214
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I thought each day died inside the clock.
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180787
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what is raised up must rest on its foundation.
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1807123
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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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180700
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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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180711
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There was an ownership about the makeshift carnival. There was a therapy there.
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18071814
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Also in development,/
the anatomically perfect robot/
pool boy and naughty maid,
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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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18071310
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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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1807139
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Like many little towns, ours has an archive. It is a catalog of everything that happens.
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180755
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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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180754
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180675
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What's the weirdest thing you've ever used as a bookmark? I work in a library. I've seen that, and more.
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1806129
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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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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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180662
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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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