1612 18 8
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161212
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“Choices overwhelmed us,” Thomas continued, years later, “like waves crashing.”
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161200
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“Monetising the mecosystem” Theobald blathered, “extend the value proposition, core competencies create cash rich commitment free conurbations…partnership models proliferate non essential services spawning new opportunity…” Peregrine tried to
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161243
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Tony sat down in the hotel room with his back against the wall. He had a handsome face, with three-day stubble growing from it, his pupils very large as if frightened by something, or from deep thought. In his hand, was the winning lottery, Periodically he would get up…
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1612129
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now the days are empty
and time has lost its head
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16122213
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Only scotch and cheap champagne/
retain their reliable flavors.
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161275
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Long, elegant, with a touch of arch,
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16121410
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Oh to be young and vigorous.
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161174
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not that we ever had before
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161100
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The moon is now at the corner on pace for the horizon. On top of a tall business building in Downtown Newark stop a woman in a hood cloak.
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161121
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the champagne foam cascades like cherry blossom ensnared in the first gales of spring
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161171
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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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16111312
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161143
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He puts on a choir of prepositions, 142 adjectives, 317 ramifications of cotton... and 177 semicolons engorged with cabbage.
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161170
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Whenever Mommy was gone, Josh Forcett's father made him eat staples, often by the spoonful.
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161166
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At night, I wake up, and Daddy's in the bathroom with a hanger in his mouth....
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161142
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I imagined the crystals in my mouth.
Salt flowers blooming on my tongue.
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161120
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A large crowd of students began to gather around the base of the building that housed the administrative offices, where my hearing was being held. The meeting room was up on the second floor.
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161032
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One night he woke up with Underdog laying next to him, breathing softly. He marveled at how fiction could make reality so much better.
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161065
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There is an empty space,
between every note in rock 'n' roll,
where they have buried John Bonham,
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16101410
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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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16101211
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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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16101516
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He didn't hide it. He told her he was a mortician when he called. He had responded to her ad in the Lonely Hearts section of the newspaper.
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161098
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Bert also said that somebody else at the meeting was complaining about his high blood pressure, and Bert repeated what Hank had said, that he was glad to have any blood pressure at all.
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161074
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My boyfriend unequivocally believed in the existence of aliens. He was the Mulder to my Scully, though when I said so, he had no idea what I was talking about. I never understood how someone so E.T. obsessed could have missed 'The X-Files'.He would look skyward, eyes…
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161021
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he took me hostage as I came out the door.
Nelson took me hostage and we went back to his parents' house. They were gone crappie fishing so I had to spend the whole weekend alone with him. I didn't have anything lined up for Saturday night, so it wasn'
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1610107
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I threw my hand / at the gearshift/
the car glided off.
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161045
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. . . a visitor from the preceding century would have been aghast to the point of vomiting to behold the regard with which pandas were now held almost universally.
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161000
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We crept to the edge of the cliff and stared down at Lake Travis. In this alcove, out of the churn of the speedboats and pleasure craft, the water shimmered, impossibly blue.
“Didn’t you used to jump off here back when you were getting high?” Ryan said
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161077
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She caretakes, he takes care
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