1814 14 10
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Oh to be young and vigorous.
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1813148
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In the gutter, the paper signs turned back to pulp.
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1813127
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The fish would need a name, but she didn’t know how to tell if it was a boy or a girl. Did fish have penises?
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18132011
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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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181352
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But I still don't have my underwear in the right place.
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181310
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Lu peeked at his cards again. They were still jacks, and they still looked mighty nice.
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181310
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Either they got married in the church dressed in their mothers’ bridal gowns, gaudy and ancient dresses with off-white lace faded from years of hanging in the attic, or they snuck down to city hall...
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1813128
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...ghosts still resentful, ghosts far from home...
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181385
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Twice burned, it buries its graves.
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1813138
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A lifeboat came by in the night,
And I finally saw we were sinking.
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181276
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Clear as my conscience may be, you still haunt me as the brown settles to black
sit there and recommence as if nothing had ever happened, your hands conducting the orchestra of your purity.
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181223
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“How scared?” Mikey said, not wanting to find out, and already looking pretty nervous.
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181220
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Enid closes her bedroom door when she changes her clothes but leaves it ajar when she's doing her face; is she hoping some small talk might reach her dainty ears?
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181211
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The pear is a bruise. Feels like desperation in the light, it looks soft and blue. She wants to touch it and doesn’t want to. How the blood gathers under the blue and the body grows tender. Swells. Slowly.
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181221
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Hollywood is the land of the slow no.
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1812123
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181280
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The serious writer looks back on a long and distinguished career as an herbologist.
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181120
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There's this sepia-toned photograph, which my mother gave me, of my brother and me when we were still both youngsters. In the picture my brother's dressed in a skimpy checked suit whose sleeves were already too short for him — on its way to becoming my
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181174
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181100
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The sound of drums blared from down the street. Car horns tried to fight the sound. Mayumi and Keiko saw the size of the crowd walking past them increase.
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181100
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The museum’s catalog description changed much less than the painting over those years. He wasn’t curator-in-chief of catalog descriptions, however, that task went to a curator arriving by another door.
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181194
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Not many people like Geminis.
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18112714
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At some point, my lottery number/
was in the mid 300s. I was safe/
for whatever reason. No need/
to burn my draft card.
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181032
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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1810136
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Valentine Dayso excitingit means he really loves herwhat will he bringshe waitshe comes home with a hang dogexpression on his faceher valentine was leftat the gambling table
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18101811
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It could be fun,/
with the guns, explosives, Molotov/
Cocktails and all,
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181021
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She saw no sense in waiting. Waiting was a weakness.
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181021
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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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181055
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She called it EMDR, which stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Basically, it means training a part of your brain to longer associate trauma with a specific side of the brain. This meant that she had to direct all traffic of the repressed memory to a new…
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181053
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"...you are a freak of nature..."
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