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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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She was about 35 or so and noticeably pregnant. She was near hysteria when she knocked on our apartment door, right across the street in L.A. from a convent. But she took one last desperate wild look at me, standing at the door. I saw the animal in her ey
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We fold it end over end, meeting in the middle where she takes it, and I let go...
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“Man, that Fats just nothin’ but a powerhouse, nothin’ but ‘Jesus Rolled Away the Stone’ and them Cats his apostles.” La KeeSha replied, “Ya’ll a real Blues Daddy now.”
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Oh to be young and vigorous.
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Ellen decided to soft-pedal the one month to live thing. Really, there was barely time for the patient to read Ellen's brochure.
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We lay in what we have made, minute fleshy bullets in the target we have made.
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8) An exercise online calls for the first sentence on page 45 of the book nearest you as a suggested description of your love life. The book 9) nearest me still is _The Quarterly_, 1, spring 1987, that I have on my desk in preparing to write an essay.
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She hadn’t died. She wasn’t a ghost. She wasn’t even invisible. She just wasn’t see-able.
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“Are you my neighbor in 3D?” Was she?
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...was discovered today hanging from a shower outlet in his bathroom...
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Let's buy this robin's egg blue furniture. Okay. Let's buy this album full of wren songs. Uh, okay.
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The villagers smash in a garage door with their heads, causing some to bleed from the ears and mouth.
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All creatures know death at their very core, a tacit default--
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Back when they were younger, David was always gushing about every little thing in his head, and his openness appealed to her as much as his muscular frame did. But after that year they spent apart, he was always ... smiling. Smiling and vague.
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i killed a poetic boy yesterday. the old ladies in theshadows swore at him when he was walking home proud ashell with a new pocketknife. they told him we dienext week so laugh like you got limes for balls. hecalled them drippy old vultures in his native tongue.they didn't…
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Now it turns out, the story doesn’t begin with the butterfly lady, herself, but with her brother.
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The serious writer looks back on a long and distinguished career as an herbologist.
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Our Core Values define evil as the concealment of information. And those who conceal information are evil.
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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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I was sitting on the steps in the entryway to our apartment building taking off my running shoes when I spotted a paperclip on the floor. I assumed it had fallen from the mail that my wife had just taken from our mailbox. Once my shoes were removed, I went down to pick…
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He took off his sombrero and playfully placed it on my head. “And really, don’t be upset. You’re fine. There’s nothing wrong with loving your cat.”
He was right, there is nothing wrong with loving your cat. But there is something wrong with owning a di
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Dr. van Roos reminded the group that trauma is trauma...
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After Jonesy entered the bear habitat, he walked up to the biggest bear in the group and punched it square in the nose. The bear was visibly startled. I mean, bears don’t get punched that often. And there’s a reason: bears are ferocious animals.
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The place is buzzing with little women, all clad in black smocks.
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"Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut."
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When her husband left she was not yet thirty
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