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Lying there, with the terrible screech emanating from his chest, blaring from his open mouth, he thinks about jet planes and jack hammers and nuclear explosions. He doesn't have quiet thoughts.
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The child began to think only of the reason for being there in the cave, summoned up patience and continued to wait...
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It rained on the morning of the party, and the weatherman promised it would continue throughout the day. But Marilyn didn't mind. She actually preferred entertaining in bad weather. Her rugs weren't valuable enough to worry about, and the gloomier the sky
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Novelist E.M. Forster said of Auden "Because he once wrote 'We must love one another or die' he can command me to follow him."
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"She gnawed her arm off in the morning, before he woke...."
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That was the night that everything began to happen. It must have been past 3:00 a.m. when Darrell came down from the attic right into our bedroom. I lay nearly paralyzed with guilt beside my wife, trying to get to sleep. Elizabeth had staggered to bed
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I put my mouth to it and said hello hello hello.
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The night she left she claimed she fucked Bukowski.
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He had been the innocent stooge for a young girl's selfish dreams. He vowed to be more careful. He would rather be lonely, if need be, than compromise himself with girls like that.
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a snowflake won’t settle on a smoking furnace;
the fathers were never restless, it was always the earth that moved.
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"Oh, abracadabra," she muttered.
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In some parts of town, people are not allowed to grow vegetables because of the plutonium used in the Lab. Three local parks were recently found to be contaminated.
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Many of you may think I can't talk but I do, excessively so and all jaws. I wonder if that's the reason I get burnt sometimes. And yes, I too have a life, hear me.I was born on a rainy day somewhere in Asia, when a stranger bought me on the antique Bird & Flower Market…
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The following day, I was so nervous that I decided to have a drink to keep a lid on my nerves. It wasn't even noon yet. They say that's when you know it's getting bad, and that drinking has become a problem. But I hadn't gone out with anyone in over fi
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The next winter the house burned down.
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Dear End of the World. We're having a party. Stop by if you're in the neighborhood.
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She wants to be an apple on a stick, a mop and handle, a brain attached to bones.
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Father makes sure the rum is safe, and still down, on his ass, he unscrews the top and takes a slug, and then a second one.
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tiny bits each one found meant something had blown apart. that someone was no longer with us. but somewhere that things were crawling towards unity again. another gun had been fired. would peace always start over? it's funny how it will. a hand…
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“Should I go over?” Ma asked, wishing she could freshen her lipstick while finger-combing her frosted hair.
“Sarah, fagodsake, let the man eat in peace. No one wants to have his picture made with food in their mouth,” said Pa.
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I’m practically naked; coral sundress, very damp panties, black with lace insets. I know I still smell like pussy.
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Larry's next book, A Fly in My Ointment, is due out this summer
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I looked at it awhile waiting for it to cool. She said, "Ahh, go on! - Go on, go on.”
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Acts have no meaning, but they do have / trajectory
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For twenty-eight years, Cochran Baines removed a tooth from the mouth of every dead child that spent time on his table.
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The doctor told me:
"You have 24 hours
to live.
no more, no less."
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I went with Dale Stack to drown a cat on a fading summer afternoon.
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I should have covered myself with leaves. I should have wandered farther from the path.
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In his dream, he was choking on an ice cube. He didn’t know what would happen first — if it would melt or he would die.
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