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I have two of those hand exercisers jamming the
tray and keeping it locked in place
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16292010
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Practice has perfected disengagement.
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162951
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I sat on the corner of her desk ... Angela Merkel can be a sweetie when she wants to be.
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1629114
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I have an appointment set for the day after next; you said you thought you might be firing blanks and then I feel a kick into my chest—two kicks, three, seven at least—my cat is going crazy at the stinky tom outside the window and the birds are waking, sc
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Your mother is a great and dying bird. Once, she tended her grand feathered nest. Once, she preened.
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162921
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It happened right after I had taken my Uzi to work, retrieved it from my Brooks Brothers briefcase, and fired it upon my desk and its assorted discontents, their paper lives bunched together by clips and notary stamps of approval, now set flying and free. I then walked into…
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Afterward, at the motel, I asked her why she liked sex so much, and she said she liked the taste.
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Back in the Dark Ages, the Mongols invented the first hamburger pattie. They put slabs of beef under their horses' saddles and after a few miles of rough riding -- voila! a flattened piece of cow meat. They then proceeded t
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162900
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Every time Hector left his home he wondered if it was for the last time. It was Monday at 2:45, so he was standing in the bedroom near the tall mirror, staring into his dark eyes. In the past, she would lovingly help him dress with her tiny, perfect fingers. She…
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You are a space-walker and a time-traveler...
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162910
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You're stupid drunk. And not feeling so good. You know you should stop doing this. But what else is there to do, especially since your brother went in? And now Roberto's gone to pick up his lady and left you alone, empty. Couldn't even drive you home. You don't…
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1629109
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Now comfy is as comfy does, but when sleeping strange, please accept a wide range of cradle, crib, cave.
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162854
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Pombo had never exhibited such powers of concentration with elevators or with other escalators, the young girl confessed to the museum staff.
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He took off his sombrero and playfully placed it on my head. “And really, don’t be upset. You’re fine. There’s nothing wrong with loving your cat.”
He was right, there is nothing wrong with loving your cat. But there is something wrong with owning a di
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Dr. van Roos reminded the group that trauma is trauma...
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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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Lucy looked up, smiled and said mine had a head that looked like a mushroom. I suppose she was right. We were sitting on the floor drawing naked bodies for our anatomy lesson and teasing each other about our lack of drawing talent. We were new friends, having met when…
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I’m not the creative type like my friend Bosely, an Irish Setter. I’m a traditionalist. I like to eat exactly at 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. I take my bone with me everywhere I go. I will not carry the poop-bag.
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Still no rain. Eight months, says Hollister. More like nine, says James Earl. We stand in Hollister’s high meadow, what’s left of it.
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At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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death spoke in a swimming pool in late june:
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She parks the car and trudges insidefor her daily visithoping that the new rouge hidesthe old tears.Five years now she has been comingto see himHe looks nothing like the pictures toanyone but her.They say she should go homeand rest, relaxShe doesn't know how…
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"Sorry, I need to confirm the results." Sal turned to Paul. "Is it true that you got stood up?"
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A performance is a series of situations. Each situation defines the characters that are in it.
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The ghosts run before/
attacking horsemen. A heart/
is ruptured by a spear.
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I always sat in the backseat of the Dodge when my Dad drove, never in the front seat beside him. It was safer there when he ran over the dogs that wandered onto the road.
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At night, I wake up, and Daddy's in the bathroom with a hanger in his mouth....
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["Mea Culpa" means: I don't care what you think, sorry is when I feel like making you hear me say it.]
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