1570 8 3
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At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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157071
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I’m in high leather boots; I’m talking many dead cows here and I respect that
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157000
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Solomon just makes people leak. Literally.
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157000
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Everyone else in the bar was looking everywhere else: it was as though they were alone while Journey played loudly all around. “Streetlights, people,” she sang. Time didn't move. What she must be like while driving, singing to herself with the windows fog
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15701610
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157031
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Dark hung over the night like an occupation force. Across the street a Cuban diner fought it off with green and yellow neon lights, Latin rhythm beating through the air.
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156921
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An undercover agent posed as an Orthodox Jewish woman in a sting operation that led to the arrest of two rabbis for kidnapping men who refused to grant divorces to their wives.
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156910
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Lu peeked at his cards again. They were still jacks, and they still looked mighty nice.
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156966
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Oh, gracious mercy, oh...
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156920
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...to know something people around you don’t know can put you outside of them. And then you can’t get back in...
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156944
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Sitting near her desk, like a dunce cap,
red
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156961
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Hideki likes the uncomfortable face one makes when trying to "break wind" after eating too many dried potatoes.
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156964
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What in the name of God’s green earth does this say? “Chifferobe if you can of Aztec in coffee can”?
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1569107
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I threw my hand / at the gearshift/
the car glided off.
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156900
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...Loves and fights and retires; / And dies.
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1569107
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Most everything is white because white means clean and hospitals are supposed to be clean. They wouldn’t let me leave.
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1569128
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156900
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“He's the one who took five tries to find your vein during your last blood draw, right?” This question spilled from the row of twenty EKG machines that now made up the hospital building's larynx
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156900
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And the ocean was black and green and blue—as your dress that clung to your body’s curve. Round as the bend of the water trailing the false line of the shore.
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156973
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156985
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Most loss control specialists wear standard rent-a-cop outfits, but notSister Joseph Arimathea and Sister Mary Clarus, who wear the grey, white and black habits of the Precious Blood Sisters.
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1569136
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Skim. The stone slipped across the top of the water. The sea was a battleship grey with a liver of cerulean, foaming at the lips its puckered kisses smacking on the shore.
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1568102
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I had no portent this would occur, /
Ne'er did I see this happening, /
Not days before, nor those coming;
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156844
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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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156811
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I am in the hallway, but I don’t sense it. That is to say: I don’t feel my body. I am like a phantom, a limbless entity floating, flailing.
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15681611
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I don't know how long I was down on the curb. When I came around it took several minutes to realize that it wasn't the moon overhead at all but a street light and the sticky feeling stuff I was lying in was, yeah, my blood. And the hand on my shoulder wasn't hers. I…
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156811
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No, I’m not at the junior high bus stop. I’m at the dining room table with my parents.
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1568139
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Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
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156821
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For the briefest moment, she was part of the sky. She hung there. Frozen. Suspended. Arms outstretched. She thought maybe she could take off flying, if she strained against gravity hard enough. She would soar into the pale blue until she reached the clouds. They …
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1568136
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I travel over your body with small feet,
reach your heart.
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