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Not long ago, Owen the Second showed her a skull. He kept it in a brown cardboard box in the top of the closet. "My first wife," he said, and sneered, his lip bunching up around a scar just under his nose.
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"I think you're a great candidate for a sentinel node biopsy," said Dr. Kartes.
They sat in the small, dark office. On the sofa, not touching. She still wouldn't take his hand.
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The ghosts run before/
attacking horsemen. A heart/
is ruptured by a spear.
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Do I feel good about any of that? Not really. But I seem to find myself asking over and over again, why should I care? That's something that's never happened before. But I'd be lying if I didn't say I kind of liked it.
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It was a lover’s dark. They had been talking for hours when daylight lost interest and had gone elsewhere for sport.
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You're stupid drunk. And not feeling so good. You know you should stop doing this. But what else is there to do, especially since your brother went in? And now Roberto's gone to pick up his lady and left you alone, empty. Couldn't even drive you home. You don't…
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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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Their specialty is the roasted Australian hare, long ears intact, arranged on a bed of sassafras.
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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Everyone was shocked when they heard Tinkerbelle was six days gone and had got so heavy she couldn't fly. Who could have done it, everyone asked, but Tinkerbelle wasn't telling. So no one knew. That isn't true. I knew, and in this Declaration I swear I will tell…
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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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On Saturdays, we pull out big white poster boards, magic markers, and draw babies.
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Sharpie marked, Free Still Works
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Throw them up there but try to make it look tidy. Try to become a little bit paranoid, just enough that you slightly overestimate how much they think of you at all.
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As it turns out, hypertravel is surprisingly slimming.
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Just take the mountain curves
as tightly to the inside and
as fast as surface conditions permit
and the road’s edge
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If you were the ozone,
I’d want to leave you gaping.
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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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The next thing we knew, the KGB started tailing us everywhere we went. They must have heard about Lenin’s Paintings, was all we could figure. Because, what if they were real?
That night we went out to a pizza place where we saw the worst graffiti in t
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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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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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What she didn't tell me was that her brother Carl got fried during an electrical storm.
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The Black Thing spread over the room, eating away his mother's face as well as the doctors and nurses who dashed in a frenzy around him until they too were swallowed in the black singing cloud.
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Hollywood is the land of the slow no.
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The serious writer looks back on a long and distinguished career as an herbologist.
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The sun is going to slice your goddamn face open.
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The white faces of the train look up in an attempt to satisfy presumption, smoothing out any interest into glassy eyed gestures toward looking but lacking the very important quality of sight.
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Kitchen.
sandwich.
wife.
daughter.
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Lucy looked up, smiled and said mine had a head that looked like a mushroom. I suppose she was right. We were sitting on the floor drawing naked bodies for our anatomy lesson and teasing each other about our lack of drawing talent. We were new friends, having met when…
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