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Her preferred post-coital activity is to pant, to suck in air with urgent greed.
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168264
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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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168240
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When we were on the road coming back out to California, along the Lewis and Clark trail somewhere near Cardwell, Montana, I remember thinking life was like leaping through flames while reading poetry and drinking rotgut red wine. This was what life was, a
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168243
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True story: T.S. Eliot introduced Virginia Woolf to new dance steps including the Grizzly Bear and the Chicken Strut.
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16821514
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I bear the wrong gin. Your air conditioner runs cold. It is either frigid or off, the gauge broken. You are not too old to overlook these things. You can't be choosy, but you will never beg. Just an occasional choice as you settle into this…
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I can still feel the texture of those humid Delta mornings, hear the rhythm of the voices of black children echoing down the halls. I still remember the sense of purpose that I had each day, knowing that this, here, mattered: a child’s education, their
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168112
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["GET UP, GET GET, GET DOWN ... 9-11'S A JOKE IN *your* TOWN!"]
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168188
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I can confirm nothing/
but impressions of the world//
that appear beyond my/
body’s reach.
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168120
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Someone had shown me a page on the internet where writers could have their stories analyzed, seeing whose work their piece was similar to. Normally, I only went on the computer to find apartment listings and pornography.
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16811814
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Also in development,/
the anatomically perfect robot/
pool boy and naughty maid,
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168164
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When I was 17, they said in an e-mail that you would get too drunk to function and that you would abuse them, verbally, and do way more than embarrass them in public. They said you'd yell at them and hit their mom for any reason. They put a restraining order on you.…
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168121
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People crawling up out of the chimney, then onto the roof, then sliding down it and off over the edge disappearing from view.
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Joaquin Phoenix has inspired me to quit writing and purse my true lifelong passion.
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168087
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I do so want to bring you into the sacred linguistically eternal loop of all ordinary things on earth, but it can so easily turn into a very sudden unsparing trapdoor, or a hissing angry knot tying up itself into even more tricky sorts …
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168011
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The muster zone was south of U.S. 119, off the Halleck Road. The search began on a large parcel, some 75 acres of farmland, property of one Mr. Shakelford. Shakelford had allowed the earth to go wild; brush, thistle and small…
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168033
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In a corner of a neighbor’s land too stony to till Cob makes a mystery.
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1680149
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Maybe tonight, maybe next week,/
maybe only in my waking dreams,/
I’ll teach another lesson-
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16801715
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With such a world/
one must invent a heaven
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168023
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When it was time to leave, she lingered beside you,
bidding you to come again.
I flicked my cat, dog tail, indifferent.
She wanted to lick your cheek.
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168020
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Alysia stretched her left hand out at Kurai, and the electricity connected with her fingertips like beacon.
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16801812
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“ I told you what she said, that she liked me better when I was drinking. Well, that's the way I feel, too. I liked her better when I was drinking.”
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168000
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Gone Heather,
with her hands in her hair,
silent for help,
over-involved now scared.
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167900
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"... Sometimes I think I'm so close to knowing what it's all about, to knowing myself, and then sometimes everything seems so hopeless, as if I haven't learned a thing."
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167920
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I dared to dream whether she was coming or was she going
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167933
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Stop! the voice commands in a guttural shriek. Do not move. You are under arrest. But the voice is only in his head; he has created it the way a writer creates characters on a page, and it is just as real to him as if someone were really there.
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167975
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What's the weirdest thing you've ever used as a bookmark? I work in a library. I've seen that, and more.
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16791912
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Start now. Make lists. Call long-lost friends. Say what needs saying. Raise hell.
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167932
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A true Rowdies fan begins every conversation about the band with a legend. She would be impressed if he knew the story.
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167900
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Would a chickenshit leave her like I did yesterday?
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167911
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Normally I would have never drank such a wine, but it was late on a Friday evening and the bottle was on the house...
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