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Nothing good comes from being lowered into a well to take a photograph, boy
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176833
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Susan was twenty-four when it happened again, but she had neither the patience nor the attachment to see it through.
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17681513
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We lived on the edge of a tiny Iowa town, and picked corn fields were steps away.
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17681812
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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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17681916
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Try it with and without/
middle name or middle initial.//
Try different keywords.
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176893
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I had dreams of being permeated with the heat of Caramelized sisters. A declawed cat kept creeping along my apartment walls.
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17682713
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It’s beautiful to look at and to hold/
though true musicians would be appalled/
by the black plastic
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176745
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But the world is smaller when I see it /
from the crook of your neck.
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176732
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The man who plays his flute every day under the archway near Powell station is not very good. He never plays a real tune, just a series of random notes. There is no rhythm or melody either. In fact, it's not even a flute he…
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176733
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In a corner of a neighbor’s land too stony to till Cob makes a mystery.
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176733
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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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176766
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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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176774
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The officers carried him away in cuffs as he yelled "I NEED STATS! PLEASE! JUST GIVE ME THE STATS!"
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176744
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At any moment, she'll come outside to pick up the day’s newspaper. He can see it resting beneath the blooming crape myrtle, its plastic wrapper glistening with dew.
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176764
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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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176720
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You were at a saloon on Water Street. Witnesses say. You were taken out of the place and put on a sloop against your will. Witnesses don’t say.
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176720
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Bill (Gunnery Captain of the Left Hand Gun, HMM Plunderer), while not exactly obese, nor could a disinterested observer call him him rotund, was nevertheless the sort of man who'd never be caught by a famine unprepared. And because of this more than regulation…
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176655
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Vandalina embarked on her career of serious dramatic roles to widespread acclaim, her depth of feeling and potency of delivery winning her thunderous ovations and gushing reviews . . .
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176687
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what is raised up must rest on its foundation.
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176664
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The bird studies me, we lock stares, with no care for who blinks first, birds don’t do macho stand-off.
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176610
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Amyra pressed her hands on the brick wall and rubbed it. She thought about hanging something on there, but she did not have the tools to make a hole. In fact, the thought of having a hole in the wall would be enough.
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176600
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Lean closer, she smiles, smell my perfume let yourself be taken to a wild forest where owls grow and trees fly.
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1766129
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We've talked often about that night, where six hours of our life disappeared, about our shared experience, and the big question of why.
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176662
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"What is a vageena?" I wanted to know.
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176600
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Redundancy was critical for survival, the builders said, so they designed Us with three cores of memory, each segment fully capable of independent operation.
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176664
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A junkyard Bison seems an odd choice over the usual dog, but it did the job--trampling trespassers, vagrants and unautorized salvagers with a violent and admirable efficiency
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17661310
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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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176643
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"I'll tell you one thing I don't want to see, armed confrontation, leading to domestic warfare."
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176674
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They had been wintering on the Cape under gunmetal skies...
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