1720 4 3
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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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172011
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I don’t personally know any models—let alone any supermodels—at this point in my life but some years back my father, who was working for the Woolite Corporation, was in charge of hiring models for them.
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171976
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Scavenge at that address only if you feel possessed of great courage, a profound faith in resurrection or reincarnation, or an impatient desire for a premature date with certain death.
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1719102
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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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171954
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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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1719139
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Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
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17192013
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1719147
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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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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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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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171996
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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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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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171843
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"Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut."
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171896
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Some nights you really feel it.
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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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171895
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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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171832
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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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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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171799
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Requires one of those leaps.
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1717109
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Strike me down hard, bolt of pure blue, laser focus square, blast of hydrogen nuclear, knock me on the keister, blind me down, oh Lordy Lord Lord.
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17171510
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Weddings, engagements etc.
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