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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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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?
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I knew nothing about the letter at first. When I came in that morning and smiled and said good morning, it was a genuine smile and a heartfelt good morning. But the letter, which had arrived the previous afternoon, was already doing its corrosive work of
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Just take the mountain curves
as tightly to the inside and
as fast as surface conditions permit
and the road’s edge
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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Long, elegant, with a touch of arch,
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Is it you with that fucking gold and platinum yacht?!?
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My wife is making lunch. I suggest leftover pizza. We are going over to the neighbor’s house for pizza tonight, my wife says. I tell her that’s okay. I like pizza.
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Taken by agents of the United States of America, Felix Six-Killer grows up at the Carlisle Indian School near Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. His hair is cut and oiled. His shirts are starched and creased. For months he is startled to find himself seated for…
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Entering that darkroom is like slipping through the barrel of a rifle.
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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But I still don't have my underwear in the right place.
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What she didn't tell me was that her brother Carl got fried during an electrical storm.
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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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Why is the sky grey he asked meI don't know, I saysudden flashes of light snowbloat the cloudssea gulls are squawkingexpect them to peck at my headI have nothing to feed them
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Sharpie marked, Free Still Works
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My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ...
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We liked the orderly Newtonian/
with its fundamentalist action/
and reaction, its rules
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Sweet Tooth needed a little snack, so he ambled on down the hall to the kitchen. He figured to make one of his patented peanut butter, potato chip, tangerine, raisin, and banana sandwiches because those things just always hit the spot. Unfortunately, when he tugged the…
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We lay in what we have made, minute fleshy bullets in the target we have made.
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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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Kitchen.
sandwich.
wife.
daughter.
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There are three ways I can love you, not even half of one more.
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"Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut."
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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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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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Back in the sixties, I chanced upon a list of books. That’s right. Sifting a black garbage bin, I found the long lost canon. Seizing the moment, I snatched the list, and cradled it in my palms. I felt proud and patriotic for saving such a noble list f
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