1791 6 6
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Learned & wealthy but slowly going mad
from seeing, he did the only thing he could/he turned to love
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179055
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Train 664 leaves Thirtieth Street Station bound for New York City at 10:55. Concurrently, Train 663 leaves the station, headed for Harrisburg. Both trains are, confusingly, called The Keystone.If Mark and I have tickets for Train 664 because we plan to…
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1790159
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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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1790139
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neon carrots and atomic tangerines
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17903020
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We are moments away from the end, and it feels like it.
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17901211
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Bag worms hang in their cloudy white hammocks. This is the month of webs when long-bodied yellow and black spiders sign their autographs.
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179030
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His mouth went dry, but he managed to say, coolly, “Just how would you like me to do that, Sandra?”
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17902015
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The boys drank in one room. The girls in another. Always the same, no matter the letters.
Greek Letters.
Shabby sofa on the burnt-out lawn.
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179084
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I've been mostly positive since joining up with Sister Helen. My previous pessimism involved spiritual degeneration, moral decline and decay, weak and weary instincts. I clung to life, afraid to die. Then I read something by Nietzsche, I'm not sure where but, like a seed,…
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17901411
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The beachy slope
never draws such goliaths.
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179064
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And then, and then, and then! After all that, this. After all that bullshit with her Dad, the Associate Principal, the idiotic counselor, and that psychotic police officer, after all that, this: a dead black cat. Blocking her path! Right in the middle of the street! …
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179000
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Harris Tobiasharristob@gmail.comThe Alarm A terrible clanging in the middle of the night roused me from my bed. I put on some clothes and hurried into the street there to mingle with my bleary eyed neighbors. At first we thought it was a fire but there was…
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178921
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Xao Ping reflexively dug her claws into the plush chenille of the sofa and let out a low yowl. She knew the old lady would be mad if she tore the fabric, but she couldn’t help it.
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178954
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You left your quiet life for a home in the city.
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1789148
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And she's dying like someone who's tried living and failed.
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17891111
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not to free ourselves//
from suffering//
but become the window//
through which it sees//
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178974
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Mass media thought control, from consumer advertising to political sloganeering, is creating a new generation of irrational thinkers. If this trend continues, one day soon we may find ourselves under the control of some genius gone haywire.
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178983
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Sherry and I stand on the sidewalk on a sunny morning, watching her dog take a dump. She's new to the neighborhood and we've just introduced ourselves. The dog, a handsome poodle, does the deed efficiently. “See you later, Gloria!“ Sherry says…
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178922
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When I was young in the suburbs, there was an empty lot across from our house. Bulldozers cleared the trees, shredded the bushes, and piled mounds of dirt three times as tall as I. But they never built a house.The dirt mounds, chain-link fences, and neon signs were…
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17891710
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I write to make visible my small/
assertions against impermanence.
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17891914
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Maddy knew how to make a sauce. It embraced the meat in a thick, buttery ooze.
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178900
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I am gonna pound you face through that plate glass protective door until everyone who needs help can get in without your judgy face looking at them.
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1789189
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178900
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Photographs can create, both good and bad. They can create a way to make a living, but they can also create opportunities for black mail, divorce settlements and most of all they can create power.
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178900
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With her head thrown back and mouth open she howls into the dark green night, letting her gloved hands droop like the front paws of a dog. A large orange corsage attached to the bosom of her gown.
Around her thick neck, a ribbon of black velvet. Her p
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178811
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The world waited with bated breath as Tiffany stood in the grocery store aisle that housed the various kinds of fruit spreads for sandwiches and toast. She tapped her toe and nodded her head this way and that while she compared the qualities of two jars of…
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178831
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The fabric on the waiting room chairs is stained and matted, but has been cleaned over and over.
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178840
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Children, afraid of dogs cried. There was uproar of melee. Children strained at their leashes to get away.
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178893
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cymbals guy — another way of saying hey turdshitface haul your skinnyass to the front of the bus.
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178820
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we're only playing with this language you and I
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