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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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180931
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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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180966
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The coffin-sized pit in his basement wasn’t freshly dug.
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180932
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We fold it end over end, meeting in the middle where she takes it, and I let go...
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180984
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"This tastes like goat cheese," I said.
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180851
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I sat on the corner of her desk ... Angela Merkel can be a sweetie when she wants to be.
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180800
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There are three ways I can love you, not even half of one more.
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1808134
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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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180833
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Don’t worry about what went aloud. I said nothing.
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180861
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ANTHONY I decide after Jill and I have dinner at her flat and smoke an enormous joint that I need to call Tyler, a conversation I'm not particularly looking forward to. I leave and she's not happy, but I tell her I have homework and we kiss a little bit…
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1808137
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His note said: “I’m sick of low attendance.”
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180821
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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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180867
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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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180876
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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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180820
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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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1808129
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I had a crappy room on the fourth floor of a crappy hotel.
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180800
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180700
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There is a feeling in my hands,
fingers,
a restive, potential energy,
drawing inward, reaching
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180762
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We’re on our way out, my brother and me, to the graveyard.
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180784
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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.
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180733
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Karen likes to make a big deal about life experience. Specifically how much more she has than me. What that actually means, she's never made clear. The definition changes and mutates as the years go by, always in her…
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18071513
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I am eternal/
as long as the power holds
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1807106
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are you like the rest of us and you disagree with war yes i said i disagree with war and he said only one man agrees with war but he won t go to the war
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180766
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Oh, gracious mercy, oh...
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180755
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Where you used to exist, there will only be spaces.
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1807108
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Satchmo sings a love song over the sound system. People read books, tap keyboards, drink coffee, eat cake. In Barnes & Noble—more a coffee shop these days than a bookstore—I am thinking about my dad and his stomach cancer.The terror he…
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18071715
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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?
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180700
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Would a chickenshit leave her like I did yesterday?
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180799
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Your honour stinks of failed fishing trips to Galway.
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180796
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Every time she tries to sleep they come; legions of small armored things scuttle claws aloft across the purple sand as soon as she stops moving.
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