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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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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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175321
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God forbid you should break one of the camps precious “rules,” which were more or less like the Ten F'ing Commandments around there.
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175373
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Having read the poetry of Dennison
I hereby give up writing.
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“Don’t you wish it always ended that way? The right people fall in love? Romance leads to marriage? God, that was a great movie.”
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175241
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Dad must have walked around with me 20 times, the store closed around us and finally he said I could have one. They were all in different poses and sizes, with black spots. Except one. One had silver spots.
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175254
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The first engine arrived and a fireman heavy with gear stumbled from the side railing.
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175241
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What about the goons? Those criminals thwarted and left for dead in every action movie for the past thirty years. I'm sure at least a dozen survived the slaughters. I'm sure at least one or two came out if it reformed. This one who quit working for Columbian drug smugglers…
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fat furry marmots who play hide and seek
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Lately he's been wanting to write about love...
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175182
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It takes twelve years for the hot water to run out and your skin has not even begun to prune.
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175121
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I remember ...all the teenagers offered no-longer favored CDs, last year's cell phones, third-place trophies, team jerseys, played-out videogame cartridges, and candy-colored miniature stuffed animals...
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175153
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Wafting wisps of fondness twinkling
in time with fairy lights pointing out lawns in cities
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175121
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After only a few months’ practice I am able to dive deep within myself. Inhale. A millisecond stop and I am under the surface. I know there is something here within myself – some treasure that I have come to find.
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175132
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That black hole isn't really a hole.
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175184
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Bare feet on hardwood floor
Twists into circles
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this reaching, this striving to love like it's there becoming something we need.
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175120
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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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175120
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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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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …
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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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175174
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They had been wintering on the Cape under gunmetal skies...
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175156
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In Your Absence the yard-cat, Flower, has started sleeping on top of the fridge
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175197
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the array of regularly spaced wavering human forms floating upright seems to extend endlessly in all directions.
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Face defined-front part of head
Cybil's eyes stick to a mirror and guard the woman's skin. The woman's image could be the result of uncontrolled narcissism, yet dry wrinkles are visible from her reflection. Disguise cream covers some of the woman's c
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I've never really been impressed with authors that write long teary-eyed novels about people dying of terrible diseases or uplifting stories about the armless boy who made the wrestling team.
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Particles flung by the sun
pierce us through, undetected
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She called it phantom energy. She said it was costing us money every month. A few cents here and there, sure, but it all added up.
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