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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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169123
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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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169198
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All were part of the household of Court Astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
who lost his nose in a duel as a student
and went through life thereafter wearing a gold prosthetic one instead
and who met and fell in love with a commoner who bore him eigh
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169110
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He lost his patience and began ranting and raving, angry that he had to come home every night and feel like he was being smothered by a pillow. “I can’t make it stop,” she said. “I can’t make myself stop feeling this way.”
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169131
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The man next to me on the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto makes me think of the smokers I’ve kissed.
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169042
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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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1690105
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Brazilian girls yammer
with their book bags
up against my leg.
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1690136
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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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169000
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After Jonesy entered the bear habitat, he walked up to the biggest bear in the group and punched it square in the nose. The bear was visibly startled. I mean, bears don’t get punched that often. And there’s a reason: bears are ferocious animals.
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169095
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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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169012
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“Why do you write filth?” they howl
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169064
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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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169030
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Talk To the Bionic Hand
“Scientists have discovered how to program intention into a bionic hand so that it will react to impulses from the brain like a normal hand”
Man found being choked by his own out-of-control bionic hand
after han
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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?
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16902015
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Falling Water almost fell./
12 million dollars later//
it will splay itself a little longer
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169074
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My mother's afraid the dog will drown. It's raining and our street is flooding and the dog is standing on top of his doghouse. My mother is pregnant. I can stand beneath her stomach and not even see her face. I watch her from the kitchen window. She's shoeless. She holds…
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She served him pie she knew was ruined.
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168965
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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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168953
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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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1689126
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The ghosts run before/
attacking horsemen. A heart/
is ruptured by a spear.
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1689125
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Can’t you do anything right?
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168970
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[TURN-ONS: willingness. TURN-OFFS: rejection.]
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168975
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Long, elegant, with a touch of arch,
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168900
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Frowning, loosening a purple tie, Tony pushed through the golden revolving doors of a skyscraper. He drifted into the crowded midtown street as if in a daze. He was roused to his senses as his cell phone sent out the melody of his wedding song.
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168822
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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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168889
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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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168831
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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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1688103
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Kitchen.
sandwich.
wife.
daughter.
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168898
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I think I remember now why people write poetry.
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168801
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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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