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the future wrapped up in a dream
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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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1810115
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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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The younger woman asked Scott if he loved Jesus.
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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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The Numbers will never romp up the stairs from the laundry room to slip warm socks on your feet on a winter’s night.
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180955
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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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what is raised up must rest on its foundation.
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The man went into his backpack and pulled out his book of crossword puzzles. The deluxe edition with fifty percent more puzzles for free. It had been an impulse buy from the bookstore, cost him four…
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There was an ownership about the makeshift carnival. There was a therapy there.
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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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18091814
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Also in development,/
the anatomically perfect robot/
pool boy and naughty maid,
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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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an ominous figure of fear and grace a ball moves back and forth
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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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I thought each day died inside the clock.
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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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180800
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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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I awake one morning to find that still,
the leaves continue to fall.
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1808193
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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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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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1808139
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Like many little towns, ours has an archive. It is a catalog of everything that happens.
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180855
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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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It was all I was convinced / in designing the encounter.
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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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After she died, clearing out her safe deposit box at the local bank, I found more numberplates.
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The javelin was cancelled after the unfortunate incident with Mrs Parker last year, but no one could have predicted this year’s sack race tragedy.
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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …
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