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The snake-like veins began to pulsate angrily, and viciously about his body. Quickly he rose up about the girl. His heart was now pounding rapidly against his chest. Outstretched, were his wings, the width of the balcony, white and decrepit and old, yet s
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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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Gone Heather,
with her hands in her hair,
silent for help,
over-involved now scared.
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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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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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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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Joaquin Phoenix has inspired me to quit writing and purse my true lifelong passion.
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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'll tell you one thing I don't want to see, armed confrontation, leading to domestic warfare."
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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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Lately he's been wanting to write about love...
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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 Numbers will never romp up the stairs from the laundry room to slip warm socks on your feet on a winter’s night.
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In a corner of a neighbor’s land too stony to till Cob makes a mystery.
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The Karaoke Girls are not appreciated. Not nearly enough and not often enough.
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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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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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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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Scales were installed on station platforms. Those who were overweight were turned away
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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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They had been wintering on the Cape under gunmetal skies...
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In Your Absence the yard-cat, Flower, has started sleeping on top of the fridge
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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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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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