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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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Under the dirty orange glow of sodium streetlights, the glistening pavement looks slick, but it’s only just wet. The mid-November temperature is cool—quite mild, actually, for this late time of year—still hovering in the upper 30s—so far posing only the
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They had been wintering on the Cape under gunmetal skies...
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174921
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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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Two cars smashed together, the sky started to look like a foot infected with gout...
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Particles flung by the sun
pierce us through, undetected
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The first engine arrived and a fireman heavy with gear stumbled from the side railing.
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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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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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17491211
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Cellulite is legal to have, either way.
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174986
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We are prisoners of anticipation.
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174921
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I kept a journal
for so many years
I've forgotten
everything I wrote.
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this reaching, this striving to love like it's there becoming something we need.
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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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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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In Your Absence the yard-cat, Flower, has started sleeping on top of the fridge
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174811
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"We regret the inconvenience. Due to hijack activity, we have orders to secure this flight. Please remain seated. We will be landing shortly. Thank you for your cooperation."
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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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174821
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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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Wafting wisps of fondness twinkling
in time with fairy lights pointing out lawns in cities
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we're only playing with this language you and I
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174820
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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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‘Do I still ‘respect’ you? Ha! - there’s a sweet old-fashioned phrase! I don’t know, maybe not so much ...
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Her preferred post-coital activity is to pant, to suck in air with urgent greed.
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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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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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“Ol’ Betty has a nice set of headlights,” he says with a wink as he springs out of the recliner.
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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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