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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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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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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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"I'll tell you one thing I don't want to see, armed confrontation, leading to domestic warfare."
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Lately he's been wanting to write about love...
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I don't know if I'm going to get Alzheimer's, but know I don‘t want to. That's why I just read “100 Simple Things You Can Do To Prevent Alzheimer's“ by medical journalist Jean Carper. Doing simple things is something I'm good at. And while I'm…
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In a corner of a neighbor’s land too stony to till Cob makes a mystery.
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Behind the plastic kitchen, where the special children sometimes sit, a large boy in tight dungarees had grabbed Stephanie's hair in one fist.
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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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You can use your shoelaces or an Ace bandage. Loop a belt around your neck and toss the loose end over a shower curtain or closet pole. Pull. Try to lift yourself off the ground.
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Cellulite is legal to have, either way.
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I watched you knee deep in water with a little boy you were hitting.
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When she told me to write itI did; I scratched out what I wanted to sayin quick print letters. Not all of it.I could never get it all out in an hour but thegeneral idea was definitely there. We had to finish it in the rain becausewe couldn't light the…
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When I was 10 or 11, some people thought that my father was my grandfather, that my brother was my father, and that my mother was my sister!
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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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Gone Heather,
with her hands in her hair,
silent for help,
over-involved now scared.
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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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The Karaoke Girls are not appreciated. Not nearly enough and not often enough.
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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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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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Another Saturday in April. Another set of scars.
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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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this reaching, this striving to love like it's there becoming something we need.
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Joaquin Phoenix has inspired me to quit writing and purse my true lifelong passion.
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The truth about the bird and the snake is this. They are dead. And me? I cannot stop thinking about them.
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Scales were installed on station platforms. Those who were overweight were turned away
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Particles flung by the sun
pierce us through, undetected
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It might not seem easy to breathe any love into a name like Father. It’s a stiff word—it’s not soft, like, say, Papa—but sometimes you have to breathe love into names you don’t choose.
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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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