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They had been wintering on the Cape under gunmetal skies...
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178121
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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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“Let’s see that great big telescope of yours,” she exhaled hotly, “I want to grind your lenses!” The doctoral candidate dutifully stood between her and his massive telescope so her hands would encounter some instrumentation with no optical components.
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FOR SALE. One prom dress, never worn. Size 18.
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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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I saw it all, in a flash. Holy shit! I thought. This is good. I have to sit down and begin writing. This is serious. Dead serious!
I would rather be doing this than eating, or fucking, or anything. It was exhilarating. If I could only keep this up, who
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I kept a journal
for so many years
I've forgotten
everything I wrote.
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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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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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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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178156
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In Your Absence the yard-cat, Flower, has started sleeping on top of the fridge
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...and he would stumble from bed in a panic and fling the toothbrush at the mirror cursing all the while "fuck fuck why can't I forget her".
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But the world is smaller when I see it /
from the crook of your neck.
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The Karaoke Girls are not appreciated. Not nearly enough and not often enough.
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It’s a grey and stormy day naturally
We’re crowded into a tiny bus shelter
as it pours 57 varieties of cats and hounds
They keep hitting the pavement around us
with the splatting sounds those animals make
when falling out of the heavens
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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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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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This seems to be what happens to the Corporate Zombie Cowboys. They get eaten by their own Zombie Kings.
The hardest part is I can see them coming, I am on the menu, and I cannot avoid them.
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I had dreams of being permeated with the heat of Caramelized sisters. A declawed cat kept creeping along my apartment walls.
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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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He was a beautiful older man, late sixties, who reminded me of a movie star with a thick mane of silver hair parted neatly from left to right and eyes the color of that stretch of Pacific Ocean between San Pedro and Catalina Island, the calming blue of a carefree weekend…
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Vandalina embarked on her career of serious dramatic roles to widespread acclaim, her depth of feeling and potency of delivery winning her thunderous ovations and gushing reviews . . .
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177967
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"Someone should have told her that less is more..."
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177984
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They knew every word.
They knew EVERY word!
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When you bring information, it does not arrive.
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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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177962
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If we thought that love was gone
that out of sweetness none remained
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For a person you don't know, a stranger with a lot of place, you think much of him.
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