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Where you used to exist, there will only be spaces.
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182896
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It's because poetry would not do
because the fireflies were alive that night, aflame
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I’ll tell you what’s wrong
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Her purse still hangs on the knob by the door, and seeing it is all that keeps Josh from freaking out because he knows she can’t go too far or too long without her purse.
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182762
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We’re on our way out, my brother and me, to the graveyard.
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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.
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182732
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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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182776
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On Saturdays, we pull out big white poster boards, magic markers, and draw babies.
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It's a good thing too—because Of the way that feeling Made her even more beautiful than usual. You shouldn't doubt such an obvious Feeling. It's a good thing— Because frankly you have Been informed before. When Beauty …
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His note said: “I’m sick of low attendance.”
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Just take the mountain curves
as tightly to the inside and
as fast as surface conditions permit
and the road’s edge
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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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182711
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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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I cannot begin to list all the ways this conversation can go downhill from here, so I hang up the phone quietly.
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But the boy next door is worse than a dweeb; he's a prima donna and a bully and a little shit to boot. The divorce will only make him more.
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I know this is going to sound crazy, possibly because it is crazy, but still, please hear me out. I'm a relatively sane person. Sane as any of you, or I was. Just, what I'm saying is that anything that happened to me could happen to you, and you might do the same things I…
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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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Train 664 leaves Thirtieth Street Station bound for New York City at 10:55. Concurrently, Train 663 leaves the station, headed for Harrisburg. Both trains are, confusingly, called The Keystone.If Mark and I have tickets for Train 664 because we plan to…
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The bearded old man, raised his weary body from the bedroll he had slept on last night and slowly stood up. Bones creaked as he worked the stiffness out of his joints, the pain and memory of endless days and nights riding the…
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I had a meeting with the editor of a well-known magazine. She said, “I think your paradigm got stuck up your monomyth.” “Oh dear. Is that bad?” “Bad? You want to be a writer, don't you?” “Well, I did. I'm not so sure now.…
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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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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?
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Would a chickenshit leave her like I did yesterday?
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Your honour stinks of failed fishing trips to Galway.
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It sometimes happens a student remains a friend long after you both have abandon academe.
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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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I'll never be a Republican Megadonor or a Doomed Aviatrix. But I'm okay with that.
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Here are a few tips/instructions to help you out (though I'm sure you'll do just fine by yourself!):Getting to the Apt.:If you're coming from Riverside, you'll want to turn onto Magnolia. So, if you're coming from north to south on Riverside, that means you'll want to turn…
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