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Be careful when you choose your muse,
for she may be a siren.
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172850
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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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172811
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Paul had come to Hawaii, like many young haoles from the mainland, to party. Partying proved to be lucrative for him. By early October 1982 he had done well for himself in Hawaii, living in a country house with sprawling lawns that held back the jungle foliage…
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172875
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they got some heat here in the West
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172831
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I almost forgot. Her nipples taste like that syrup from a can of peaches. The kind you aren’t supposed to eat if you are 18 or older. The kind that adds baggage to the hips and I’m certainly not about to take out an insurance policy on my ass.
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172832
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”My goodness how that child nurses hope,” Edward’s Grandad would often say, “were it not for her where indeed would this family be?”
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172893
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Where I work people use words like leverage. They do not appear to denote anything.
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172886
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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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172810
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you and i exist
outside of the chaos and noise
entwined in eternal embrace
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172820
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I am a shadow. Cooler than liquid. I don't need a container to take shape.
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172744
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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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172742
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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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1727117
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She smacked his back a couple of times with the flat of her hand
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172700
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Well, it was on a Monday and you know how bad Mondays are to begin with. I had been up real late the night before playin’ poker and drinkin’. I was thinking that after a couple of hours the hangover would wear off and I’d be okay, but instead I s
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17271310
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Fortunately, when the bird hits the sliding glass doors in our den, I know what to do.
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172721
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She saw no sense in waiting. Waiting was a weakness.
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172720
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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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1727109
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We lived across, the street, across North Govenor, from a pretty art student whose stripper name was Jan the Blonde Bombshell.
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1727167
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The sun is going to slice your goddamn face open.
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172600
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Scribble something basic with traces of spectacular,pen every pint of pain spilled during the massacrewhittle the convoluted down to the vernacularboiled the whole story, now you got everybody crackin' upnow step back from the business like, “man, that's wack as…
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1726127
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Val walks through the world, absorbed in the day to day. A plainspoken narrator drones on in his mind. The nondescript voice marks time to the beat of Val's banal footfall, hums along with the whir of Val's modest, midsize sedan. The narration is loudest in the twilight…
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172600
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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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172600
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The sound of drums blared from down the street. Car horns tried to fight the sound. Mayumi and Keiko saw the size of the crowd walking past them increase.
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172622
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We have a responsibility,” she says, “to enrich our local business community while delivering quality products to customers.” She had brought over some application forms for the Better Business Bureau, and we sit at the big table and fill them out, marki
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172610
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Either they got married in the church dressed in their mothers’ bridal gowns, gaudy and ancient dresses with off-white lace faded from years of hanging in the attic, or they snuck down to city hall...
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I imagined the crystals in my mouth.
Salt flowers blooming on my tongue.
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One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living
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One must be drenched in words.
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