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Cinnamon and smoke
infuse the days that shorten,
chill, accelerate.
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181710
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Conjoined - her hardened nipple brushing, softly, against him, his chest hair caressing her skin like a thousand hungry lovers’ fingers – the perfect moment lasted eternity.
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181731
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the future wrapped up in a dream
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181762
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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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1817115
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This weekend was supposed to be about intellect and soul-mating, but, like all others, it's turned into body and longing. You sit in my passenger seat and I let you smoke in my wee car with the windows rolled down. We've come from a wedding, a fairy ring, a…
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18172119
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The younger woman asked Scott if he loved Jesus.
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181700
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an ominous figure of fear and grace a ball moves back and forth
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181674
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"Merry Christmas, Willie."
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181686
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Here I am in the city where we walked side by side, you had driven a great distance and lost your way somewhere where exits left the highway from both directions and unpredictably.
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181620
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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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181633
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In a corner of a neighbor’s land too stony to till Cob makes a mystery.
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18162214
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I thought each day died inside the clock.
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1816123
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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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181694
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A jollier zombie you shall never find. You must trust me on this!
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1816147
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where is the magic at?
the spit
the dirt
or the words?
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181600
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181697
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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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181612
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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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181553
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Hunger only makes people hungry, but bad hair can ruin your whole day.
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181588
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I can confirm nothing/
but impressions of the world//
that appear beyond my/
body’s reach.
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181555
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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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181510
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"I always disliked such display of religious fervor. I dislike religious fervor. Period."
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1815109
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It was all I was convinced / in designing the encounter.
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181500
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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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181532
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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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181564
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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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181533
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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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181553
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The thing was, though, she couldn’t shake the image of that dead dog she had found inside the black trash bag she thought could be first base, right before the twins said, Screw the game, let’s swing.
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181555
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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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181400
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I found him dead underneath a sycamore tree. I knew it was a sycamore tree because of all the acorns surrounding the body.
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