1827 5 5
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Where you used to exist, there will only be spaces.
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182732
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I’ll tell you what’s wrong
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1827137
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His note said: “I’m sick of low attendance.”
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182767
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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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182784
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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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182632
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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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182662
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We’re on our way out, my brother and me, to the graveyard.
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182632
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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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182676
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On Saturdays, we pull out big white poster boards, magic markers, and draw babies.
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182631
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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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182622
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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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182600
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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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182667
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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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182600
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Would a chickenshit leave her like I did yesterday?
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182623
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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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182676
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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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182699
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Your honour stinks of failed fishing trips to Galway.
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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 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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Every morning if I don't have to go potty....
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It was just lying there by the side of the road next to a mailbox, pockets turned out, weeds kinda rolled flat around it. I counted three nickels, a dime, and a cigar butt too. I could sure use the change for gum, but I didn't want to get near it. It looked dead,…
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It sometimes happens a student remains a friend long after you both have abandon academe.
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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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It’s been a series of bad clams
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love weaves a perforated web
between the spikes
of longing
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