1617 14 15
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The place is buzzing with little women, all clad in black smocks.
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16171516
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He didn't hide it. He told her he was a mortician when he called. He had responded to her ad in the Lonely Hearts section of the newspaper.
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161765
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52. they hate the word hate
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161700
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Mayra heard the bell ring and opened the door to her small home in downtown Havana. Mayra was in her 50's and had the beautiful dark olive skin of most Cuban people who have a mix of Caucasian and Negro in their blood.
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161764
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An action oriented solution for bovinity
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161731
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I almost forgot. Her nipples taste like that syrup from a can of peaches. The kind you aren’t supposed to eat if you are 18 or older. The kind that adds baggage to the hips and I’m certainly not about to take out an insurance policy on my ass.
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161796
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Every time she tries to sleep they come; legions of small armored things scuttle claws aloft across the purple sand as soon as she stops moving.
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161775
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Long, elegant, with a touch of arch,
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161753
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This woman is naked to the waist and then nakeder below that.
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161742
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I imagined the crystals in my mouth.
Salt flowers blooming on my tongue.
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161642
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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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161631
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It was a phone call we never expected. You were so full of life and joy and the sound of your laugh was pierced in our minds. Two strokes. That's what they said. No explanation, no back story. We worried we would lose you. Immediately, all of our memories with you started…
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161611
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You know moments like these. You know how your mother ruins them.
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1616103
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Kitchen.
sandwich.
wife.
daughter.
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161665
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There is an empty space,
between every note in rock 'n' roll,
where they have buried John Bonham,
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16161410
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One by one our friends are kicking the bucket. Let's get together. It's now or never, we figure.
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161666
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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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16161312
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161600
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“Monetising the mecosystem” Theobald blathered, “extend the value proposition, core competencies create cash rich commitment free conurbations…partnership models proliferate non essential services spawning new opportunity…” Peregrine tried to
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161664
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What in the name of God’s green earth does this say? “Chifferobe if you can of Aztec in coffee can”?
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16161617
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Sharpie marked, Free Still Works
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161663
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There was something about her eyes that he couldn't shake.
He stood in line, waiting for his chicken finger tenders and one large size 32 oz. cola. No salad (a childhood aversion he had never abandoned), and no mashed potatoes. Friday night and the eve
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161645
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. . . a visitor from the preceding century would have been aghast to the point of vomiting to behold the regard with which pandas were now held almost universally.
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161620
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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161620
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A large crowd of students began to gather around the base of the building that housed the administrative offices, where my hearing was being held. The meeting room was up on the second floor.
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161589
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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.
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161533
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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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161597
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It is a misdemeanor to fart in NYC churches.
In 1857, toilet paper was invented by a man living in NYC.
No one knows how long it took for the idea to fan out from there.
God only knows why it took so long,
or why NYC was at the epicenter of it all
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16151813
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One must be drenched in words.
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1615127
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Val walks through the world, absorbed in the day to day. A plainspoken narrator drones on in his mind. The nondescript voice marks time to the beat of Val's banal footfall, hums along with the whir of Val's modest, midsize sedan. The narration is loudest in the twilight…
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