1693 7 6
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Perhaps nothing has never existed;/
perhaps something always has
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169321
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He leans against the truck, the sun sinking on the day, shadows inching down the side of the house, yawning towards the horizon.
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16931911
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Today the isobars are far apart.
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16921112
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The shop is swarming with little women.
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16922411
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169287
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1692148
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169275
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Biscuits and gravy. I'm off today, I'm lazy.
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169200
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Damien, my boyfriend, talks me back to sleep when I wake up in the middle of the night, he doesn't judge me for being afraid of the dark, or being lost at sea, he simply listens to me breathlessly explaining why I'm awake— again— at 3:32 in the…
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169230
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The others fell silent and cast glances back and forth to each other.
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169232
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They looked like girl’s jeans. Matt held them against himself in the mirror. Not that girl’s jeans were a mark against them. Usually, girls had better jeans anyway. Matt took two of the biggest pairs out of the big chest in his grandmother’s back closet.
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169276
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I ain’t your kissing cousin
That’s pretty plain to see
Baby, keep your pretty lips
Far away from me
I ain’t your kissing cousin
That’s pretty plain to see
You’re really very pretty
Come kiss me and we’ll see
We don’t live in a barnyard
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1692168
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Unapproachable... for all that.
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1692127
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“If they look that good in shorts.” I warned him once, in a candid, humorous moment, “Then they’re probably too young for you to look at.”
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169200
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“I feel like my bones are melting.” Her arms are wrapped around her body tightly, like she’s trying to hold herself together. She’s shaking; I can hear it with every breath she takes.
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169155
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He ran for home, screaming for help in the silent ravine.
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169195
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Burren-grey, the sky through sky lights
is cigarette ash smashed across July.
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169122
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you are the most uptight pansy I have ever met
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169132
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"Pull around," Rachel says. "Pull around him, dammit."
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169142
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I started walking around the Jube like any other sheep, lemming, or penguin: passing plate glass windows, one after another.
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169193
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There is only one other person in the pool, in the adjacent lane. I stop to adjust my goggles and notice his waterproof ear buds.
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16911311
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I tried to talk, but only / whispers slithered out.
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16911312
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Myrna came home from her new, midnight shift, waitressing job at the Waffle House saying she was sorry but she couldn't take any more gray-haired Jesus-types with their dollar bills held high, releasing a few so they would flutter, as if borne by wings, onto the tables as…
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169100
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You are like gasoline on the fire of my desire–you send me higher and higher into paroxysms of earth-shaking erotic explosions. Remember–the “light” catfood is the kind in the turquoise bag.
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169152
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Snow fell against the windows casting shadows that danced like fireflies or flame—he couldn’t make out which for sure. He’d tumbled and bounced from balcony to balcony, the snow calming with the winds and gently falling, now.
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169100
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It was where the “Suits” worked. I didn’t want to go there, I didn’t want to be there, but in those days one did what one was supposed to do.
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169155
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The first time Momma shows me a demon is during revival week at church.
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169100
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We all ran out of the house into the communal garden without fences. There stood Von Rotten with a smoking rifle in his hands, and our mascot Digger lying on his side, limp. We all looked at each other in disbelief.
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169021
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Justin comes out of the bathroom, finally erect, his hands glistening with K-Y jelly as he chucks the girlie mag into a corner. “I'm ready.” Through the afternoon's soft-filtered light, Kelly watches him climb on top of her and thinks of…
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1690115
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An anorexic middle-aged woman walked up and watched me..
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