1570 6 6
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He hung up and I sang some whiney lyric about wanting him back. You know the songs that say the same shit: I’m an idiot. Love me anyway. I’m Velcro with nothing to stick to and you’re a nappy surface that gives me a reason to exist.
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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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157000
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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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156987
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Tender veterinarian, even if you weren't so tall, or your eyes so warm, or your fingers so long, or if you didn't bend over my sick cat with such astounding grace, or shoot those quick, intense glances at me, I'd have woven dreams while in your uncommon presence. Vulnerable…
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156983
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At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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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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156900
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Solomon just makes people leak. Literally.
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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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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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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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156810
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Lu peeked at his cards again. They were still jacks, and they still looked mighty nice.
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156866
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Oh, gracious mercy, oh...
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156845
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Jack would have felt betrayed, and my parents alarmed, had they ever suspected me of playing with Jack's guns, but I found the temptation overwhelming.
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156844
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Sitting near her desk, like a dunce cap,
red
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156800
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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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15681811
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We can apprehend beauty only/
by framing it with the photographic/
paper’s edge or the novel’s margins/
and bookends.
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156873
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156744
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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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156721
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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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