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I am eternal/
as long as the power holds
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176552
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I know what he meant.
I've been in the 3 A.M. cream cheese.
I've known the hole in the bagel.
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176542
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A father's soft neglect has repercussions.
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176511
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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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176520
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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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176542
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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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176400
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You know what parents have to do to get an Xbox? They don't just stand in line and someone hands them an Xbox, OK? That's sacrifice. They have to sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice. I mean, I chase alpacas a mile every night in subfreezing conditions,
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176432
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He was drinking heavily again and complaining that there was nothing fresh worth writing about.
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176411
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The pear is a bruise. Feels like desperation in the light, it looks soft and blue. She wants to touch it and doesn’t want to. How the blood gathers under the blue and the body grows tender. Swells. Slowly.
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176410
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She was now sitting in her bathtub. The warmth of the water made her pale, rich vanilla skin flushed with the fullness of circulation as her pores continued to allow the passage of her toxins from her system.
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1764137
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His note said: “I’m sick of low attendance.”
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176421
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Four nights out of sevenI will lay with youFour nights out of sevenIt's the best I can do In the day, we will bake our breadAt night, ha, we will break our bed!Four nights out of seven, I will be with you
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176420
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It all started with a middle finger. This is where the chain of events began in Benjamin's mind as his mouth filled with the metallic taste of blood and the crunch of broken glass rolled against his teeth. The pickup followed much too closely, but Benjamin was too…
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176400
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Frowning, loosening a purple tie, Tony pushed through the golden revolving doors of a skyscraper. He drifted into the crowded midtown street as if in a daze. He was roused to his senses as his cell phone sent out the melody of his wedding song.
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176332
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I've heard of sucessful marriages where there's very little sex.
My heart aches for that kind of love.
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176330
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She burst
Into the glass shop
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176396
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Gather 'round children, For it's high time to tell, The story of a strange man With a horrible, awful smell. For this is a story More disgusting than most. This is the gruesome tale Of Gary Von Gross. With a house made…
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My small kitchen has barely enough room to turn around in, yet I had the feeling I was being watched. When I experience it again, just seconds later, I realize it was eyes watching, actual eyes, not a camera or machine.
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17631410
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When we take Vengeance,/
shave and shower him,/
deodorize and scent him,/
clothe him in a starched shirt
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1763138
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A lifeboat came by in the night,
And I finally saw we were sinking.
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176300
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176332
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and i'm almost out of cigarettes,
and fireworks and sorority girls
scream
from down the street.
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176377
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She caretakes, he takes care
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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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176320
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I am a shadow. Cooler than liquid. I don't need a container to take shape.
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176232
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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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1762117
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She smacked his back a couple of times with the flat of her hand
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176223
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New York, New York The winter drizzle left the streets shiny like in movies and this night Manhattan looked like it should look, vibrant, clean and sparkling. It was…
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176231
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I cannot find my way back to the bubbling navel of the universe because of Spongebob Squarepants.
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