1722 10 9
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Strike me down hard, bolt of pure blue, laser focus square, blast of hydrogen nuclear, knock me on the keister, blind me down, oh Lordy Lord Lord.
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172200
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I blinked the darkness out of my eyes and saw the man again; I could smell his breath. Just like dad’s. I must have fallen asleep. My eyes felt so heavy. I was cold. Why was I cold?
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172210
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Leda looks back over her shoulder at us as the swan
grips her from behind while at the same time nipping at
the nape of her neck. She's a freckled child and
a little frightened. There's a dark smudge beneath her eye
where the shadow runs. The swan
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172254
|
On the television, a round woman sits amongst the mannequins. She wears a headband. She describes some awesome jewelry.
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172211
|
I don’t personally know any models—let alone any supermodels—at this point in my life but some years back my father, who was working for the Woolite Corporation, was in charge of hiring models for them.
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1721102
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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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172121
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‘Miguel! A pint of Guinness, please!'
I might as well have asked for his mother's immortal soul. A smile as benign as a stiletto. But he served a clean and tidy pint.
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1721169
|
If love could only by heat be bound
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172143
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He’d tossed and turned all night, pondering what to do, afraid she was living alone. He’d decided to email her two words: “Love you” and signed it “Scary Sal,” as she’d always seemed so afraid of him.
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17211510
|
Weddings, engagements etc.
|
172183
|
At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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172120
|
It takes almost an hour before I drift to sleep on the bus. When I wake up in Crescent City, I’m surprised. Maybe I was going somewhere else in my sleep. Walking out of the station, it feels like a strange place. Somewhere I’ve never been before. The
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172121
|
Cammie Richard's house was just like all the others in Wilchester. The exterior was vaguely reminiscent of the Dutch style; gray stone with cross beams of dark wood, with two stories and a bay window. Her yard was fertilizer green, with a giant STRATFORD FOOTBALL…
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172161
|
In his mind, he could hear Eve’s voice, “We had some good times, didn’t we?”
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172120
|
Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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17202013
|
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17201211
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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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1720138
|
Every morning if I don't have to go potty....
|
172095
|
The border crossing at El Paso will soon be arriving. I'm apprehensive about Mexico, all the violence.
|
172075
|
Independence Day was a Thursday. Frank had been invited to join some Yale Art School classmates in Vermont for a three-day bacchanalia.
|
17201414
|
A wrinkled man lie atop an ivory-clad mattress, matched sheets covered his body, matched hair covered his head.
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172032
|
She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
|
172000
|
If you were the ozone,
I’d want to leave you gaping.
|
172096
|
I cannot begin to list all the ways this conversation can go downhill from here, so I hang up the phone quietly.
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17194520
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This is a lady who never got a break.
|
171989
|
I thought the Ferris wheel was dumb. All it did was give you a high altitude view of the little Minnesota town where I had grown up.
|
17191413
|
Hunters took 925 bears in the 2020 season in Vermont
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171999
|
Requires one of those leaps.
|
171998
|
I think I remember now why people write poetry.
|
1719139
|
Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
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