1715 16 7
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The sun is going to slice your goddamn face open.
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171444
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The last of your tenuous septum dissolves when you press the nozzle of the neti pot against it.
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171400
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The money stank on the table. Money is dirty she said, one of the dirtiest things. So many people touch it. This pile of brine would not explain its reek, only demanded that we accepted its stench as requisite. It had to have been the cash that stank, prior to its arrival…
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171400
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Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. It was an unexpected meeting, but one that was sure to bring a lot of change for both. They met at a work event. Some friends wanted to put together a company and they had both been invited to be part of the project. Boy smiled. Girl remained…
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171450
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In a little dirt church at the end of the world stands the ikon of an unrecognized saint.
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171410
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The separation—the plan—had been a long time coming. After years of fighting and therapy and apologizing and, finally, silence, their marriage was about to die of exhaustion.
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171441
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My ride, my good friend Morning was due any minute, but of course, he/she was always late. My costume was a dog. I was stuck to another dog, in the act of passion. A stuffed one. A basset hound. I said my name was Lightning.
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171411
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The White House released only a short-form pedigree certificate, which “breeders” claim bears signs of alteration. “The ‘K’ in the middle of ‘AKC’ is longer than the other letters, like an El Greco on an acid trip.”
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171474
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17141812
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He spends his Sunday morning spraying WD-40 through the straw-like stream attachment at the expansive paper nest of beige and ivory striped wasps.
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171300
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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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171333
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Karen likes to make a big deal about life experience. Specifically how much more she has than me. What that actually means, she's never made clear. The definition changes and mutates as the years go by, always in her…
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171372
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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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171331
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behind the curtainof a ballsy fragilitythere lives an easethat was not easythere exists a gracethat is not always gracefulbeauty can maskcheekbones that sometimes look sadwhen they are smilingeven grin determinationneeds downtimethe prize is still thereeven if the eyes…
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1713112
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Although radiation and chemo rendered him a wraith...
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171394
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“Are you my neighbor in 3D?” Was she?
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171393
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Where I work people use words like leverage. They do not appear to denote anything.
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171331
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“Tell me again,” you whisper softly, “about the songbird.”
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171352
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Elvis awoke in a cold, dank sweat, hungover from bourbon and bad dreams.
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171252
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Almost to the elevation of regret.
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17121710
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The list of things to live for/
shortens with age. The list of regrets/
lengthens.
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171296
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Can I still be in your pictures?
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171224
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We got our holes in our hearts bundled onto soft wrapping cloth just like the gentleman on TV said; with smiles we set out towards our matching end of the same old stories. That's just the way…
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171266
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Oh, gracious mercy, oh...
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171212
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It distresses me that you will never lust after me /
the way you did for that girl /
who had her hands around your belt
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1712129
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now the days are empty
and time has lost its head
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171232
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The most beautiful possible thing is to deprive all places of their meanings.
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171132
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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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171142
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I think for a second that I should have called my husband out to witness this thing, but I am instantly made aware of why I have not.
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171182
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Entering that darkroom is like slipping through the barrel of a rifle.
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