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17152015
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Falling Water almost fell./
12 million dollars later//
it will splay itself a little longer
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171543
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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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171580
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The serious writer looks back on a long and distinguished career as an herbologist.
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They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
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171523
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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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The ghosts run before/
attacking horsemen. A heart/
is ruptured by a spear.
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17141611
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I don't know how long I was down on the curb. When I came around it took several minutes to realize that it wasn't the moon overhead at all but a street light and the sticky feeling stuff I was lying in was, yeah, my blood. And the hand on my shoulder wasn't hers. I…
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171422
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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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171432
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Scientists have determined that a tiny freshwater organism known as the "bdelloid rotifer" gave up sex 40 million years ago. And you thought the spark had gone out of your marriage.
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171495
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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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Bert also said that somebody else at the meeting was complaining about his high blood pressure, and Bert repeated what Hank had said, that he was glad to have any blood pressure at all.
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Every morning if I don't have to go potty....
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17141811
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It could be fun,/
with the guns, explosives, Molotov/
Cocktails and all,
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171475
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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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171421
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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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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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171376
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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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I had no portent this would occur, /
Ne'er did I see this happening, /
Not days before, nor those coming;
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Looking with his ears, Hearing with his eyes, Not really mute, he simply didn't know how to speak.One word, then another string together,a crack spreads across an ice covered lake. Now there is an open channel, and his thoughts roil the…
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1713107
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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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17131413
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Hunters took 925 bears in the 2020 season in Vermont
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171365
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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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171354
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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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A blonde girl, her youth evident beneath a cosmetic mask of bruised eye shadow and plum lipstick, claims the seat beside me on a train. A radiant six month-old gazes out from her hip, awe-struck at life, as my own son must have been at that age. I never e
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171383
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At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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171395
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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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171371
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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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171321
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Five o’clock, and Madame choosing her evening legs. Elizabeth assisting. Elizabeth will continue to assist until midnight, despite the chaos, at which point the authorities will tell her such assistance is no longer necessary.
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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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