1812 8 4
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He had become an accessory to a murder.
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1812 10 7
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She can never say why, but guilt rides her bones
like the spirit. She rubs worry raw.
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1812 19 16
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Try it with and without/
middle name or middle initial.//
Try different keywords.
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1812 10 6
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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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1812 11 10
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Someone will labor to keep it alive/
although the body will want but/
to return to random particles
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1812 7 4
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They had been wintering on the Cape under gunmetal skies...
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1811 1 1
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He thought the scarab was bad luck. I knew too little about omens to argue.
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1811 3 2
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Hair today...gone tomorrow
The sun beats down
on my balding crown.
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1811 7 7
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How much do book editors earn? Peacock Love. (aww…)
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1811 7 7
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When God blessed creation, a ewe gave birth to Adam. When he cursed Satan, Eve hatched from a crocodile's egg.——In naming the animals, Adam marked them for death. His own name was a slow fire. Eve's was an inferno.——In the shelter of the Tree of…
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1811 7 3
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the air is a fierce tangerine tonight
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1811 16 7
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Under nervously flickering fluorescent lights / your name will grow / fed by the tongues of Those Who Never Leave
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1811 15 8
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this reaching, this striving to love like it's there becoming something we need.
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1811 17 8
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1811 1 0
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The Jester sat down on the edge of his mattress. He laboured to bring one gout ridden leg up to lay across the other. The jingle bell at the tip of his pointed toe mocked each serrated movement of his limb with a jaunty tinkle. He grabbed his ankle to arrest its…
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1811 3 3
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Some trick of the morning light makes the tattoo on her ankle look like the burn from a branding iron. She had watched her father as he slept last night. He was handsome and innocent, like a baby boy.
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1811 3 4
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Sunday, Nolan and I drop by the ice rink on 10th and Alma to watch the amateur hockey leagues battle it out in an unspoken yet assumed class war: the buff, unemployed rink bums who can grind ice, cross-check, and stick handle like the pros, versus the dou
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1810 4 2
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‘Didn't you used to have a daughter?'
The tense and phraseology jarred, but he was inarticulate not ignorant, awkward rather than unaware of how it sounded and she smiled at him.
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1810 0 0
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Beautiful,
a country left abandoned by the parade path.
The soldiers that typically occupy this place,
temporarily removed to neighboring lands;
congregating together,
backs to the native.
I benefit from the accidental diversion.
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1810 3 1
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We learned to dance beneath a gazebo / in Spring Lake Park / We were fourteen
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1810 3 1
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Your place is extra.
No it isn't.
It is, baby.
The man was as aroused by her discomfort as he had been annoyed by her laugh. She wasn't laughing now.
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1810 16 12
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It's the little things that trip us
up: a small hole in a level field,
an innocuous root in a well-trod
path, a disinclined sidewalk...
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1810 4 1
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My ride, my good friend Morning was due any minute, but of course, he/she was always late. My costume was a dog. I was stuck to another dog, in the act of passion. A stuffed one. A basset hound. I said my name was Lightning.
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1810 10 3
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Melinda said forget the kegger last night, what we’re about to do will help you figure out whether you want to apply here.
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1810 7 7
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I want to be that daring gardener who ploughs up her front yard -- to the horror of the Neighborhood Association.
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1810 8 5
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Without warning his eyes expertly navigated into a closed position setting off the dream machine long without power until this very second.
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1810 8 2
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It was so hot we walked out on our husbands. There were reasons, we supposed. They left the refrigerator doors open all day, grabbing beers when they passed by, tossing the sticky caps upon counters. They drove their Metropolitans to buy food, leaving th
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1810 2 0
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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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1810 28 16
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Lately he's been wanting to write about love...
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1809 2 0
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That put a real crimp in our already crimped sex life. Actually I didn’t mind as much as Allison minded. It made her real grumpy when she didn’t get laid. I could never understand how she could bear so much pain, because she was so small that it was l
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