1828 3 3
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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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182897
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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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182822
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182721
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Mrs. Noah eyed the thickening clouds from the front stoop. Noah was still out in the yard kicking up sand in disgust, arguing with himself the whole time. Piles of cedar timber lay strewn all about. Maybe if they’d lived even three days’ journey clos
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1827106
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1827108
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Half-pint Ball canning jars, each labeled in earnest capital letters, took up a whole wall of Teeny’s bedroom. Inside each jar was air she had collected from some place important to her life.
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182787
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We want our lives even-cut, …
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182720
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The cabin has windows all around, like ribbon tying a birthday present.
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18271814
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Also in development,/
the anatomically perfect robot/
pool boy and naughty maid,
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1827157
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It is a sunny day in the autumn of the patriarch.
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18271110
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Some of them are notorious tweakers. Nobody epitomizes the cowboy-outlaw biker more than the ironworkers, who are wired on Black Beauties they sell on breaks.
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182611
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"We regret the inconvenience. Due to hijack activity, we have orders to secure this flight. Please remain seated. We will be landing shortly. Thank you for your cooperation."
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182688
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I can confirm nothing/
but impressions of the world//
that appear beyond my/
body’s reach.
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182653
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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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1826129
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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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182631
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the future wrapped up in a dream
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182621
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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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182664
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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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18261310
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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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182633
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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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182612
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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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1826106
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He is drilling the door of a safe to access the keys he locked inside.
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182655
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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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182652
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Some books are like old friends and when you read them, you no longer feel alone.
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182553
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Hunger only makes people hungry, but bad hair can ruin your whole day.
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18251212
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182520
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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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182575
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I was Orson Welles skulking in the shadows and you Alida Valli;
our time measured like footsteps advancing on Gethsemane.
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1825109
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It was all I was convinced / in designing the encounter.
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182587
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what is raised up must rest on its foundation.
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