1724 9 6
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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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17234520
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This is a lady who never got a break.
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1723102
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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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172398
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I think I remember now why people write poetry.
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172383
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At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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172333
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Nearly everyone knows of that celebrated poet’s story coming down to us from classical Greek mythology: the tragic tale of Orpheus and his descent into the underworld to rescue his beloved Eurydice. Well, there’s a much lesser known story of a legendary 7
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172364
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This year I did not markthe day of your death.I let it slip by in an afternoonfilled with music you'll never hear,words you'll never read,a chorus of voices raised in protestat the unwavering passage of time.I don't need a numberto know that you are gone.Since you went…
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published in The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review.
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172300
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If you were the ozone,
I’d want to leave you gaping.
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172342
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In a small, cozy diner lived a homemade meatloaf. The meatloaf spent its days lounging on a warm plate with some mashed potatoes and sweet corn. Together they watched television, argued about sports, and ate blueberry pie...
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172222
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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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172200
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Sofia looked around and found herself at a boulevard. She could see the town exit ahead of her. The bike still lied on the ground.
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1722139
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Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
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172243
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"Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut."
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172230
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He did it in front of the waiter and everything.
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172220
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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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Not long ago, Owen the Second showed her a skull. He kept it in a brown cardboard box in the top of the closet. "My first wife," he said, and sneered, his lip bunching up around a scar just under his nose.
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172275
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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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17221012
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A cult is one thing; it defies common sense that a commonly educated person cannot escape cultist thinking and belonging. That cult, A.A., is girded by police, fire, therapy, hospitals, insurance companies, and courts.
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Quail looked up at her. Unsmiling, challenging.
Lemme just go wash my hands, he said.
She closed the door, bolted it. You won’t need your hands.
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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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And she warms her hands on fresh-cut gizzards, And he forgets the taste of honeyed peaches
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I know this is going to sound crazy, possibly because it is crazy, but still, please hear me out. I'm a relatively sane person. Sane as any of you, or I was. Just, what I'm saying is that anything that happened to me could happen to you, and you might do the same things I…
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I took Annie to the zoo, and the tigers got out. The little tigers, that is. Cubs. Two of them. The zoo employees scurried about, peeking into nooks and crannies.
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watch/
the second hand sweep
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172131
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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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Requires one of those leaps.
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It’s been a series of bad clams
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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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172110
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Lu peeked at his cards again. They were still jacks, and they still looked mighty nice.
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