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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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1720102
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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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1720107
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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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172054
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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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17202013
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17201211
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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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172095
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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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17201510
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Weddings, engagements etc.
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1720138
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Every morning if I don't have to go potty....
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172083
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At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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172020
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It takes almost an hour before I drift to sleep on the bus. When I wake up in Crescent City, I’m surprised. Maybe I was going somewhere else in my sleep. Walking out of the station, it feels like a strange place. Somewhere I’ve never been before. The
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172075
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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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172021
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Cammie Richard's house was just like all the others in Wilchester. The exterior was vaguely reminiscent of the Dutch style; gray stone with cross beams of dark wood, with two stories and a bay window. Her yard was fertilizer green, with a giant STRATFORD FOOTBALL…
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172061
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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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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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172096
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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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17191413
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Hunters took 925 bears in the 2020 season in Vermont
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1719139
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Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
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171943
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"Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut."
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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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171996
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Some nights you really feel it.
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171995
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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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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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171932
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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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171900
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If you were the ozone,
I’d want to leave you gaping.
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17191213
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The mulch vendor is a crook but we have no choice, not with the shortage of soil. Have to guard the stuff, put alarm wires around the garden, leave a friend in charge to spot the thieves if you go away overnight. If you…
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17184520
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This is a lady who never got a break.
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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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171896
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A horizon shrinks a burden until it’s a seagull getting fat off vinegar fries. I’m in love with the way your mouth moves when you aren’t talking. When it fills with salt.
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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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