1764 4 2
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A father's soft neglect has repercussions.
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176463
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During the day we search for truffles. I have a pig named Henry. He is a big help. He wanders the forest sniffing for truffles like a parable of porcine inquisitiveness. He knows what he is doing. He is not just a pig. Nor ordinary pig. He is a French pig
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1764103
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Often I eat lunch at the hospital. The cafeteria may be the best place to eat in town.
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176442
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So begins your new career in the car service business. In some ways you enjoy it, too. Sitting alone in the cab each day, totally your own boss; you get a surge of excitement inside thinking about the money you'll make in a way that requires so little work. Clearing two…
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176474
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You're on the Ferris wheel, and the wind is blowing just a little bit, and the sky is invisible behind a wash of white clouds, and your little yellow box tips when you look down, down to the fairway swinging. In the boxes below grandmothers are shrieking …
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176411
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“Man, that Fats just nothin’ but a powerhouse, nothin’ but ‘Jesus Rolled Away the Stone’ and them Cats his apostles.” La KeeSha replied, “Ya’ll a real Blues Daddy now.”
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176362
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We’re on our way out, my brother and me, to the graveyard.
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176332
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He lit another reed - a new score orchestrating in his head - his thoughts swirling around the older man; there was something else going on here…
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17631513
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I am eternal/
as long as the power holds
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176300
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He awoke with a start. This was not the first time he did so. He couldn't afford these occasional bouts of sleep. And certainly not in the land of the Tsantsa hunters.
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176372
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The ice in my drink provides ample cooling. The brew strength of my tea is just such that it combines in a pleasing fashion with the melting ice. My mind is clear and my belly absent hunger. I am completely sated from any physical desire at this very mome
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176331
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Why won’t my parakeet eat my diarrhea?
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176322
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"Honey," I called out to my wife. "Why do we have Spam in the closet?"
"You mean unsolicited bulk messages sent electronically?"
"No--the canned, precooked meat product made by the Hormel Corporation."
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1763107
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I threw my hand / at the gearshift/
the car glided off.
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176320
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‘Just get out of bed,’ I reply. ‘It looks like the fairies have been at your head. You should turn your clothes inside out. Put out a biscuit. Ring a bell. Buy a rooster; or a recording of it crowing. It will keep the sprites at bay.
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176385
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They are plastering on lipstick in pay-to-enter toilets
around the corner from the mosques, where old men
sit on back streets selling toilet seats, spices by the
shovel, flashlights, and Audrey Hepburn t-shirts
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176311
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Normally I would have never drank such a wine, but it was late on a Friday evening and the bottle was on the house...
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176363
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Bootsy awoke with a hangover that only brain surgery could cure, a hangover that caused a seam to open in the known universe, leaving Bootsy on one side while all other matter sped away, away.
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176376
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He leans in close then, close enough that when he speaks, his words tiptoe out and tuck me in.
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176310
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you and i exist
outside of the chaos and noise
entwined in eternal embrace
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176378
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The weatherman can't predict
accumulation. He can only tell you
it will be cold. Expect ice, wind, snow, expect
delays. Your daughters play outside,
dancing around the Evergreen, its branches
bearing the weight of snow, its branches
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176231
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The world—the natural world—was terrible and beautiful in wartime. The leaves shuddered off trees. The pockmarked fields. The fallen brick chimneys. The way the birds heaved together in enormous flocks like rescue missions and then just as…
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1762119
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Be careful when you choose your muse,
for she may be a siren.
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176253
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Although still uncertain of whether she was a she fish or a he fish (she definitely hated being an it fish), the fish liked what she saw of Nags Head. Finally, a world that gave her a choice. And felt no need to verify whether she was a real she fish, or just a he fish…
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176200
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‘They will follow, but we have to go now’
‘Wait , I can see something familiar...’
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1762138
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A lifeboat came by in the night,
And I finally saw we were sinking.
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176220
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I paused in case she said more. Then, “He’s very faint but he wants to talk.”
She leaned forward, chin almost resting on the grey-haired woman in front of her. “Tell him to shout.”
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176274
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It was impossible
that you wouldn't love me
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176132
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A married woman requests a butterfly tattoo that won't please her husband from an old tattoo artist.
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176130
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She burst
Into the glass shop
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