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"leaves &damage, &shifts of shape"
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125021
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Six thousand dollars was a small price for a man's life. Mario was in the back seat of the Honda with Johnny next to him handcuffed, all tense. Francisco had it on a rap station, the sort of music that gave Mario a headache.
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125031
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"I have a prehensile tongue," he said matter-of-factly. "I know how to make you feel good." Such confidence, I say. Prove it.We're sitting on the couch, watching a movie, but not paying attention to it. We sit side-by-side, my leaning into him, and his arm is around me,…
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1250136
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for he shall inherit your dream.
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125021
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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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125000
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June Day sprinted with urgency through the halls of the Armistice. Whenever she passed a window looking out into space, if it wasn't already covered, she didn't bother looking out, but not because of her hurry; no one did anymore. She was young, but the…
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1250112
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Although radiation and chemo rendered him a wraith...
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125011
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I like him. I really, really like him in a way that I don’t like guys, not anymore, not after all the dirty lies into get in my pants, the dirtier lies to get out of them later, the indignities and the humiliations and the disappointments.
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125099
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They sat before the fire and played cribbage. He was a good player, but not as good as she was.
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1250105
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Okay, it was a long shot but who in that room wasn’t desperate to shift that shit? All our jobs depended on it.
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125056
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In Your Absence the yard-cat, Flower, has started sleeping on top of the fridge
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125000
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This summer they had reached their fifth anniversary, the landmark they’d dubbed the Bacchanal year. Instead of exchanging gifts made of wood, they’d bought expensive wines and champagnes and emancipated their bodies of clothing for two straight days. The
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1249108
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I bit her ear and /
it was burnt toast
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124955
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beat them with fists and purses.
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124944
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The figure eight will fall on its side. Become infinity.
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124941
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I would ask for your name/if your tongue wasn’t in my mouth.
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1249121
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He extended his bent arm to its full length with a crack, straightened his hunched body and tried, and failed, to close his lips over his frightening grimace. Stone lips are not pliable.
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124964
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Everybody needs a flaw or two. It builds character.
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124976
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In the blacklight of the storm, mother would tremble, spit and sway as the shutters would clatter and she would give away her balance. It was more than my heart could bear. She would always center her accusation with, “your boyfriend is a rake and a flam.” That…
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1249105
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"Some Purgatory in order, innit?"
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124944
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The gaudy belt buckle I got you, which would have been well-received except that you hate gaudy belt buckles.The custom t-shirt I made for you using iron-on felt letters that generously enhanced the shape of your breasts in a way unfit for public display.The wedding…
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12491313
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Of course then I did it all over again. Got married, that is. Fortunately, this one worked out.
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124954
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We were wild, medieval magpies,
sweaty and sweet and selfish; and so much more
than we were before I lit that first stick of spice,
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124966
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It was always your body that told so much --
lips working some secret out
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124974
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It was impossible
that you wouldn't love me
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1248114
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He is leaning back against a pillar watching the dancing; a spectator to joy – both planned and spontaneous – that’s unfolding in bodies fourteen and fifteen years old in front of him.
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1248710
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From room to room, neither closet nor drawer contained any remnant of pleasant memory.
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124887
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Co-workers have started calling him Jesus, Manson, Foghat, Doobie Brother, hippie, hipster, Grizzly Adams, Dude Lebowski... there’s really no end to it.
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124862
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It was as if a car bomb went off in Beaver Cleaverville.
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