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But no matter how we died, we all end up here, in the Meadowlark Children's Cemetery.
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156083
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He was supposed to be a garden gnome. Give pause to the squirrels, keep an eye on the impatiums. We found him at Wegman’s. He looked hopeful and observant.
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156074
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I can take you away, away, away.
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I try again. "You can make a big cup by putting your hands and fingers together, see?"
He glares at me. "A giant could make a big cup," he says. "A giant could make a giant cup."
I thought so before, and I’ll say it again. A little genius.
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156084
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When Roger was small his two favorite toys were a tiny, squat doll called Care and a rubber millipede.
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We all ran out of the house into the communal garden without fences. There stood Von Rotten with a smoking rifle in his hands, and our mascot Digger lying on his side, limp. We all looked at each other in disbelief.
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155951
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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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155900
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“We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'," said Dostoevsky. Well, sometimes, I think otherwise.
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Scribble something basic with traces of spectacular,pen every pint of pain spilled during the massacrewhittle the convoluted down to the vernacularboiled the whole story, now you got everybody crackin' upnow step back from the business like, “man, that's wack as…
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One by one our friends are kicking the bucket. Let's get together. It's now or never, we figure.
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San Bruno avenue, six shops in eight blocks. Those Vietnamese ladies thrive on the pedicure trade.
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Coward, cuckold, she taunts: So be it. He's not a young man anymore, nor as clever as he once was, or thought.
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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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His mouth went dry, but he managed to say, coolly, “Just how would you like me to do that, Sandra?”
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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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"Some Purgatory in order, innit?"
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155900
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It was where the “Suits” worked. I didn’t want to go there, I didn’t want to be there, but in those days one did what one was supposed to do.
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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155910
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[WARNING: DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 'R XMAS!]
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This morning I heard her downstairs trying to get away silently. I knew she would write a short goodbye note. I knew it would tell me her reason for leaving —she had to be free of my indifference. I dressed, finished my coffee, backed out of the driveway and went to…
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155832
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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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155800
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I walked around the mountains and the gravel roads that once were my home. The rain made tiny rivers in the clay that ran hard and fast, and I splashed in them until my feet were saturated and my hair was stuck to my face and in my mouth salty and I cried
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155830
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“Listen, Mother – you’re my ticket out of this burg and I’m not about to cash it in!”
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Kitchen.
sandwich.
wife.
daughter.
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A blonde girl, her youth evident beneath a cosmetic mask of bruised eye shadow and plum lipstick, claims the seat beside me on a train. A radiant six month-old gazes out from her hip, awe-struck at life, as my own son must have been at that age. I never e
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What does she have / that I don’t have / that I can’t buy / for myself?
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155832
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Scientists have determined that a tiny freshwater organism known as the "bdelloid rotifer" gave up sex 40 million years ago. And you thought the spark had gone out of your marriage.
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Fortunately, when the bird hits the sliding glass doors in our den, I know what to do.
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