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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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He reveled in the chase, giddy when just out of arm’s reach. When to catch him, that was the question.
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172999
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Your honour stinks of failed fishing trips to Galway.
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172942
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I imagined the crystals in my mouth.
Salt flowers blooming on my tongue.
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17281813
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One must be drenched in words.
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She smacked his back a couple of times with the flat of her hand
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172800
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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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172800
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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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I went out behind Parker's house and saw Darrell's tent set up in the grass. The flaps of the pup tent were open. I could see him through the mosquito netting. He had a Coleman lamp burning and lay on his back in his underwear on top of his sleeping bag.
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17281212
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They'd taken so much: ivory, rubber, copper, gold. Wealth for the grabbing. No remorse.
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The day you came to the wedding the sky was so, so brightly July./ I saw my face where I left it the last time . . . .
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At first it was just holding hands and talking about Ricky's condition. Then it was leaning into each other on the sofa, Ben whispering my name into my hair, me wanting to put my hand on his thigh.
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The most beautiful possible thing is to deprive all places of their meanings.
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I had a crappy room on the fourth floor of a crappy hotel.
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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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You know moments like these. You know how your mother ruins them.
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This is not her death. This is absent-minded omniscience. This is impossible. And then again, the inside-out, implosion. And the hall was clogged with bodies; none of them hers, but who could be sure?
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We got our holes in our hearts bundled onto soft wrapping cloth just like the gentleman on TV said; with smiles we set out towards our matching end of the same old stories. That's just the way…
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Mama sleeps in bed with us. The blue of her ghost sleeps underneath me. I love her more than anything. What does she think when we are naked, when we yell, or mimic, imbibe, curse, cry, shake, make love, roll over on her, want to die?
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“When I get like this? What about what you get like this? If you know my answer you know you look like my answer. Otherwise, how would you know my answer?”
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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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He spends his Sunday morning spraying WD-40 through the straw-like stream attachment at the expansive paper nest of beige and ivory striped wasps.
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IT's like, 15 words. Do you really need a snippet?
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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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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.
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He said stuff like
‘Crikey that's a knife',” she said, “it was bad, really
really bad.”
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“What is the sickness that you have?” Colin behind the glass wondered.
“Too much world,” said Anise Fish.
“We have that in common.”
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Why is the sky grey he asked meI don't know, I saysudden flashes of light snowbloat the cloudssea gulls are squawkingexpect them to peck at my headI have nothing to feed them
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My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ...
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