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naturally, the windowless ones are the worst.
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291000
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The place is a living rebirth,
And all death is only temporary.
For soon in the land, the soil,
For soon in
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2908135
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All the attractive women in the building had secrets. He wanted to know their secrets, but they wouldn't say.
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29072121
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Theresa stopped speaking to me because I ate cows. This made things simple. There was no conversation.
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290632
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A girl’s legs stirring the air up
behind his back
as he lies between her thighs
stirring the air repetitively
like a sea anemone
stirring the water to feed
the soul, the hunger
between the legs and arms
for new life, stirring up
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290452
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“Skip the obsequies,” he said. He meant “flattery” but he’d been taking a “30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary” course.
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290461
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He is my daughter's son and his father's worst enemy.
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29001612
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Brian takes off his size eleven shoe and shakes it out on the table.
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28933417
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Don’t rub me out now, not tonight. Or if you do, do it right.
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289000
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He told me to count backwards from 10. I was out by 8. He was now in complete control of my life – what a helpless situation.
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289000
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More and more, incoherent masses of letters scroll through my mind. Ideas struggle to form. Flashes of images flit rapidly in front of my mind’s eye. There are fish, mountains, presents, forests, mirrors - a menagerie of meaningless symbols march pas
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28883623
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I am everything she wanted me to be. I am crossed legs, chest out; I am wearing a soft white dress—lacy and completely inappropriate to the Midwest, to 2011, to anything about my existence.
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288800
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They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff, only glanced at them, not enough blaise in reading, but skimming kept your credibility, thank god those sites now posted more and more videos. They didn’t subscribe to VICE
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288795
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"Mammy, why do they throw sand in our eyes?" a girl could be heard screaming from the 30-foot-deep ravine, Babi Yar.
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288551
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The gun sits quietly in the woman's handbag.
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288322
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Wonderful When his mother was a little girl, her father would braid her hair until it was exactly right. When she asked him how it looked, he always said,…
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288111
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I saw your soul like flesh through négligée,
enigma moulding treasure from okay.
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287882
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Moon-girl spins around & around
drunk on her outrageous momentum
as if she could make the world rotate on its own fables.
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2869236
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Cavett asked McCarthy what she thought was overrated about Hellman. McCarthy–never known to mince words–replied “Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.'"
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286776
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Two weeks after All Souls’ Day, he trudges through the overgrown pasture behind the farmhouse, his head bent, intent on his footing, a shovel his walking stick.
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28652222
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The mouth is peculiar and so are the shoes.
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28623331
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She was a dead bird the morning I found her, wings clipped in dirt and blood vanished into tiny braille maps on concrete.
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28625227
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The gun is heavy. The tiny women hold it in both hands.
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28611711
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Balling my fists, I banged them on the retro-formica tabletop. The taste of pufferfish balls in an oleander-infused reduction with a seaweed and pomegranate side-salad tossed in a geranium-rottweiler vinaigrette rose in my throat.
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I’m practically naked; coral sundress, very damp panties, black with lace insets. I know I still smell like pussy.
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285732
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A useful skill. Tonic immobility. I cannot forget...the first year I was a woman...trying to believe the truth I tell...
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285531
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My name is Mandy and I'll be your narrator today. I'd like to welcome you aboard. You will be reading at the approximate speed of one hundred words per minute. Total estimated reading time will be about fifteen minutes. At this time, I'd like to point out several of the…
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“Just curious,” Sean says, “but what’s up with the old Pinto out front?”
She looks at him. “It’s my boyfriend’s.” Her green eyes are flat: What business of yours?
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I will die in Paris on a rainy day.
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