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To hear my name, called out across the Roman stones on a bridge in Regensburg through the languid March drizzle,
was to breathe again as my head burst through the water.
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187433
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The Karaoke Girls are not appreciated. Not nearly enough and not often enough.
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187431
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the future wrapped up in a dream
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187462
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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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187452
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18741310
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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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1874106
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“Ol’ Betty has a nice set of headlights,” he says with a wink as he springs out of the recliner.
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1874115
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He looked straight at her, not to challenge her, but to better gauge what it was she would throw at him. Her eyes always darted to the thing right before her red, swollen fingers snatched at it, like a thing possessed.
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187311
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He thought the scarab was bad luck. I knew too little about omens to argue.
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187365
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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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18731612
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Indeed, it was quite likely that no one in town had ever played either of these games. The townsfolk were not big fans of word games, though they did enjoy Whist and Canasta.
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187366
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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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18731914
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His work was done. For sixty years, beginning soon after his seventeenth birthday, he had listened to the gods- good, bad, somewhere in between-
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187362
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"What is a vageena?" I wanted to know.
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187320
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The cabin has windows all around, like ribbon tying a birthday present.
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187340
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Except, something about Margaret was a little off. She would stop typing suddenly and look up at the plant, studying it, almost as if daring it to cross her. Then, she would go back to her computer and start pounding away again.
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1873158
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this reaching, this striving to love like it's there becoming something we need.
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18731814
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Also in development,/
the anatomically perfect robot/
pool boy and naughty maid,
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1873139
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Like many little towns, ours has an archive. It is a catalog of everything that happens.
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187353
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Our mothers died in childbirth. Taken in by the village, our new mothers taught us to wave at the river boats, to sell our trinkets to tourists. They offered us coins of a foreign currency and little pathetic smiles. By nightfall, our fingers bled. Then came…
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187211
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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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1872106
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1872114
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Mounds of earth and grassless ground
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187200
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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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187232
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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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1872112
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I watched you knee deep in water with a little boy you were hitting.
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187288
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dicks, skulls and upside down crosses
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187273
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the air is a fierce tangerine tonight
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187200
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1872119
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He asked me to bury him in Vegas.
Instead, I had him cremated in Trenton.
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