1719 14 7
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171943
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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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17191211
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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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1719138
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Every morning if I don't have to go potty....
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171953
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Henry and I had met at the hospital. He'd been forty years my senior, but we'd been in for precisely the same reason: kidney stones.
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171975
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Independence Day was a Thursday. Frank had been invited to join some Yale Art School classmates in Vermont for a three-day bacchanalia.
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17191414
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A wrinkled man lie atop an ivory-clad mattress, matched sheets covered his body, matched hair covered his head.
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171961
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In his mind, he could hear Eve’s voice, “We had some good times, didn’t we?”
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171943
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After dinner, I looked forward to taking a shower and cleansing myself of the day’s mishap. Cher had other plans.As I left the bathroom, Cher nipped me in the butt, taking my towel, skin, and blood with her. I remember writhing on the floor outside my sis
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171920
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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171822
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I remember thinking the seasons are arriving later every year,
as if the world has been slowed by the weight of graves.
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17181413
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Hunters took 925 bears in the 2020 season in Vermont
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17182520
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I read my book of names. Over and over again. Our name appeared in the newspaper 254,991 times between 1896 and 1944.
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171854
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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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171843
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"Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut."
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171895
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A little contempuous aside by the critical theorist guy, Frederick Jameson-- that it was logically absurd to call anything that human beings do, produce or effect “unnatural,”-- has brought forth the following. We are…
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171810
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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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171832
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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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171823
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Mr Robertson chuckled gently as he caught the aroma of freshly cooked cinnamon doughnuts and watched the oil leave its fingerprints.
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171811
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17174520
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This is a lady who never got a break.
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1717107
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Hurried, hassling suit in front of me is being awful to the barista. So she refuses to serve him, turning away.
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171722
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I built the fence myself, strong and high and aesthetically pleasing. It was high enough to provide privacy on both sides, but from my bedroom balcony I could see everything. More than I wanted to see.
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1717139
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Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
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171796
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Some nights you really feel it.
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17171510
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Weddings, engagements etc.
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171795
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The border crossing at El Paso will soon be arriving. I'm apprehensive about Mexico, all the violence.
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171771
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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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171700
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If you were the ozone,
I’d want to leave you gaping.
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171796
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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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