1609 4 4
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The litany of tough decisions scrawled on. Stencil Gucci on no-name jeans. Buy cheap chocolate and scrape the name off. I looked over and watching the saliva encrusting in the corner of Larry’s mouth, my heart sank.
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1609199
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Liz didn’t steal his heart / she embezzled it
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16091010
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I had some words, but the truth is they don't mean a thing because whatever it is I was trying to say to you always crumbles to the ground in front of you. I had some words, but the bullying wind was stronger than me and ripped them…
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160921
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The Bridge Barstow had not wanted to listen to Griff. Griff was not making the right decisions, or he thought Griff was not making the right decisions. Thought he was walking a…
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160953
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The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue just came out, and all over America librarians are flipping through its pages and rolling their eyes. The swimsuit issue, which isn't actually about swimwear at all, but, is, instead, about young, beautifully shaped female…
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160800
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"Only the gods in heaven can do such things," he shouted back, his voice hoarse and parched from no water for two days. "Wouldn't your God have saved you by now if he had the power?"
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1608179
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He deplaned Air France flight 9 from JFK to Charles de Gaulle airport at quarter past noon.
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160800
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The wind rushed by her and she heard the faint sound of barking. And then she knew why she was coming. And she ran.
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160877
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The careful paths of larger versions gave me enough time to think, to sense their fears from pauses between footsteps, and prepare those minutes, hours, weeks before they decomposed into my whole.
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160833
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Don’t worry about what went aloud. I said nothing.
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1608138
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16081512
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(I'd appreciate some feedback on this very weird story.) A Frosted Mini Wheat walks in to a bar...
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160842
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It wasn't hidden, exactly, but kept in a place where she wouldn't be expected to look: a photograph of Roger, naked and supine, looking at the camera without surprise.
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160831
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“Tell me again,” you whisper softly, “about the songbird.”
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160887
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160855
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His people eat soggy casseroles and smile with tight lips.
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160863
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I stand corrected once more.
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160797
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Dark, green grass covered the pasture like millions of tiny fingers swaying in the heat.
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160777
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My wife and I were looking for a "fixer-upper." We were strange that way. We were leaving a rental which had cat tunnels built into the walls. One villa we toured had a heartbeat. In the basement, in place of a well pump, was a heart made of fibrous roots which had…
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16071211
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Maybe, after years of writing poems like letters, he began to notice that no one ever wrote him back.
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1607149
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I assemble myself daily//
from the ready-mades/
of a fast talking world,
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160732
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A true Rowdies fan begins every conversation about the band with a legend. She would be impressed if he knew the story.
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160766
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Assimilated wheat germ
integrated ant worm
the capital of brazil.
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160742
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Renee said, "I have actually slept with a number of Captains of Industry and would rate them, overall, deficient in skills."
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160744
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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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160720
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I am a shadow. Cooler than liquid. I don't need a container to take shape.
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16062517
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16061616
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To See Who's There Able these days to search through centuries, I click, scribble, cut and paste, skim, reject, record, resurrect a wet stone wall, the smell of burning peat. Bob's your uncle, Peggy's …
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1606105
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Freshly fucked,
Shirley exhaled enjoying the lingering sensations. She always felt lighter after a good orgasm, and this had been one for the record books.
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1606109
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It was all I was convinced / in designing the encounter.
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