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Seventeen-year cicadas are the sometimes-singers that surprise spring with the ugliest mouths of all.
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As airplanes fly low over her children playing in the kiddie pool on the front lawn, Maureen learns something else about her father's new house that lies in the flight path of an international airport.
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We hit the road, headed west.
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I think he viewed Communion as an act of hygiene that allowed him to go on being fiery and self-determined.
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Frankie's girl had a habit of making any guy she walked past turn his head and lose his entire train of thought-we all knew it. Frankie was the only one who asked her out to have lasted long enough and worked hard enough to the point of putting a ring on
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Shakespeare had red hair / Van Gogh never painted a nude
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Her dress swirled around her as she stepped into the ballroom, looking every bit as sultry as her recent Playboy cover...
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the / future is now incomplete
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Things are a little out of hand. Information fills room after room after room. I have no bloody idea where I am. I have your photo, but the navigational coordinates are difficult to interpret. Where the hell are you, anyway? I don't like mazes — too much like…
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There is a rock somewhere with the truth of the sky in it, the glitter of otherworldly charms that falsify the ugliness of the literal.
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He searched for something deserving of the word “bestowed,” something so rare as to horrify the clerics of ordinariness.
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There’s a hole in my sock, just large enough that my big toe keeps slipping out.
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When I think about love, I actually think about life. And when I think about that, I wonder if we’re really who we used to be.
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Unapproachable... for all that.
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Blood had soaked through his Converse All-Stars, and into his cotton sox. It was the smell of metal, of iron more specifically, that nudged his mind out from the fog of shock and denial, closer to the reality of his circumstances.
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You call the shit in this paper news? ‘Dog Accidentally Shoots Man With His Own Gun, Swedish Man Bursts Into Flames on Train Platform, The Truth About Elvis's Hidden Extraterrestrial Daughter.' Seriously? Enough about Elvis already.
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I am at a wedding with a new girlfriend. The bride is her old college roommate. I don't really know anyone else here. The wedding is being held at a huge estate, located on the edge of enormous cliffs that overlook the ocean. Despite the danger of this precarious…
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Butchie was the one who heard about the bonfire happening over on Harrison Avenue.
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I know this: the sky is vast here//
and the sun unforgiving/
to any architecture not the best
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On the day they were born, the old mother eagle named her chicks Faith, Hope, and Charity.
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I was seeing the owl lady from time to time when I met Caroline.
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He hiked the hills of her condition
She biked the path of his delight
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I'm old enough to be her father.
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The missions never change:/
To plant a bed of fast-blooming/
Flowers of annihilation/
Across an unspecific plain.
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They try to incorporate a little of Ravel around their edges, the ones where their molecules bump off into other parallel realities, into other non-localities, into other potentials. She isn't buying it. She's tuned in. And she can tell.
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Public Wi-Fi ”hotspots” allow men and women to ogle each other discreetly while pretending to write the Great American Novel.
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This couldn’t be a bar; I was with my mother. It took a few seconds for the collision of senses to clear, and I realized the restaurant had not only one, but two flat screen televisions hung in their dining room, and a fake fire blazing in the fireplace.
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This woman is naked to the waist and then nakeder below that.
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Our Lord Savior Google/ answers prayers without prejudice/ and leaves the self-hatred up to you
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The scaffolding had been difficult to construct. The rock floor of the bluff offered no purchase, so he'd been forced to anchor braces to the trees behind, then span some thirty feet. A cantilevered gallows reached another fifteen feet past the stage...
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