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Our Irish tradition is rich in Yeats, drenched in Bushmills.
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I brimmed with sexual energy and it flowed about me like a buttermilk, silk robe. Rich and thick, musk-laden and fortified with my own particular brand of woman.
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His note said: “I’m sick of low attendance.”
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Not many people like Geminis.
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When you encounter a body laying on the road, drive over it.
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Warning: reader beware, there's sex in the air.
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the steady, persistent work of beauty
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I'll never be a Republican Megadonor or a Doomed Aviatrix. But I'm okay with that.
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The time has come
to scrape the wax from my menorah.
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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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“It’s lost. Lost and gone. Forever. My love for you. I’m sorry.”
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War The once shining lake was busy draining itself. All the better cared for boats were looking like disjointed discarded single shoes in a messed up paint chipped closet. No one was thinking well okay a leaky sole is better than a wounded heel. You get the…
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They politely urged him not to get too involved with his creations.
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Robert Townsend had planned his suicide for ten years, and on July 10th, 2010 he took a long, hot shower to set the mood.
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death spoke in a swimming pool in late june:
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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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Penny followed the woman into the warm, dark interior of her home, which smelled strongly of cumin and other familiar spices she couldn’t name. Penny noted that the tia’s hair had turned almost completely white and had grown very long since Penny had last
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When he leaves herThe weather is glorious of courseUnblinking sunshineHe walks awayShe touches the edge of his sleeve I touch his sleeveBlack jacket flung over his shoulder Black jacket over his…
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The coffin-sized pit in his basement wasn’t freshly dug.
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The surroundings, he thought, are just as important as what's surrounded.
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If girls have keys for fingers then locks cannot hold them.
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"when I say bag, what I mean to say is…"
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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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that guy/ MOSTLY understood / endings
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I infuriate myself with this gift.
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It’s Sunday- no need to shave-/
but shave, I do. A little act//
of discipline in the discipline/
of routine.
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A rose and two dollars. Where did they come from? I didn't know anyone who had visited my parents' grave recently, yet that evening I saw a white rose on my mother's side and two bucks on my father's. I took the money and placed my own flowers with the rose. It had to have…
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He got tired of the pool party, the chit-chat, the suburban posturing, and he decided to swim home.
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