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Ripper the dog died after eating a Quarter which had lodged in Ripper's throat choking her to death. Steve Latino buried her in the backyard the next morning. He felt nothing…
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They'd taken so much: ivory, rubber, copper, gold. Wealth for the grabbing. No remorse.
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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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184086
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Get something cheap and light at Target. Trash hell out of it. Encourage baby to urp up in it.
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Sarge had done this before. Not with this many rookies and not on a one-way trip. This was a suicide mission. The boys didn't know it, but he did. They weren't coming back. Hell, they couldn't come back
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When the black cloth falls on you all food tastes like airline food. Every song sounds like Barry Manilow. Every poem sounds like Rod McKuen. It’s all just noise to you now.
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And besides, since winter is coming, the dying clammy ground cherry makes a good Pilgrim hat for the fieldmouse. We found one the day after you left, at moonset, in the garage, building a nest with toilet paper in the air filter of the car.
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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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183931
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Why won’t my parakeet eat my diarrhea?
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Throw them up there but try to make it look tidy. Try to become a little bit paranoid, just enough that you slightly overestimate how much they think of you at all.
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“Hey honey. How are you?” The man sat down in the office chair, his cell phone pressed against his ear. Light peeked beneath the closed door from the main area of…
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Andalusia I. partners in sunset the hawk and I in ballet ..............................he:..........the small flame in the wind ..............................I:............the last tremor of grace the…
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His note said: “I’m sick of low attendance.”
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I’ve done my part of the job in conservative clothing. Lonnie’s done her part looking like Dolly Parton.
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“He's the one who took five tries to find your vein during your last blood draw, right?” This question spilled from the row of twenty EKG machines that now made up the hospital building's larynx
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183900
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Would a chickenshit leave her like I did yesterday?
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183997
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It sometimes happens a student remains a friend long after you both have abandon academe.
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IT's like, 15 words. Do you really need a snippet?
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The stunned son knelt to understand then fell, his heart shredded by the hollow point.
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we're only playing with this language you and I
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I told him he was just paying for his sins. He gave me a look. "Why me?" he asked.
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183821
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‘Do I still ‘respect’ you? Ha! - there’s a sweet old-fashioned phrase! I don’t know, maybe not so much ...
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Walking home, carrying his guitar case, Jed felt the sums of his life adding up to dangerously high numbers, the deadly inertia of vaguely comfortable apathy swallowing his time. His moment would soon be fading. Because, like many young men before him, Jed…
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I think I’ll get a tattoo. Not just any tattoo, one I’ll regret. I’ll catch people peering at it, trying to interpret the twists and swirls of the black ink on my fair skin.
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The coffin-sized pit in his basement wasn’t freshly dug.
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When he took Medieval German Lit in graduate school, Ackermann read Der Ackermann aus Böhmen by Johannes von Tepl. His professor was amused both by his last name and that his grandparents were Germans from Bohemia. Of course, only his grandmother was from Bohemia and…
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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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