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an ominous figure of fear and grace a ball moves back and forth
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180822
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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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180888
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I can confirm nothing/
but impressions of the world//
that appear beyond my/
body’s reach.
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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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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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180821
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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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180897
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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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180762
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180753
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Hunger only makes people hungry, but bad hair can ruin your whole day.
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180774
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"Merry Christmas, Willie."
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180755
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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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18072214
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I thought each day died inside the clock.
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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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1807147
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where is the magic at?
the spit
the dirt
or the words?
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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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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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180687
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what is raised up must rest on its foundation.
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1806123
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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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180600
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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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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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18061310
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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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1806139
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Like many little towns, ours has an archive. It is a catalog of everything that happens.
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18062111
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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …
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180520
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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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1805109
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It was all I was convinced / in designing the encounter.
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180565
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The bar sounds grew (as bar sounds will) until everything rushed together -- clinking glass, tinkling ice, laughter and zippers going down then up.
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