1683 8 1
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As I watched her sleep, I saw gentle frost and sun on crystal.
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168399
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I should have buried him on the saddleback and kept my mouth shut. I'll murder the bastard who did it.
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168345
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. . . a visitor from the preceding century would have been aghast to the point of vomiting to behold the regard with which pandas were now held almost universally.
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168376
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Perhaps nothing has never existed;/
perhaps something always has
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16831312
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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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1683128
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...ghosts still resentful, ghosts far from home...
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168300
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If you wanted to retain the ownership of said works, then you should not have died.
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168321
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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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168300
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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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16831714
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He was a liability. I knew I had to ditch him.
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168264
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She'd still rest her fingers on your back, and her smile still lit the lantern of your soul.
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168200
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Dreams will show you a life that might or might not be yours, but you better believe that they've got to serve when you're asked to come up with a story."--Frank Baron, the night he made bail and left town1. First Blood in Dreams Long Ago The…
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168211
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No, I’m not at the junior high bus stop. I’m at the dining room table with my parents.
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1682209
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feeling empty as the
bottom of a bottle
dry as a bone
in death valley alone
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16821812
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However did we make it this far/
without murdering one another
as the other sleeps
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16821512
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Effie reckons the river her sister keeps asking about, the Great Pee Dee, was named after some Indians.
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168222
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you are the most uptight pansy I have ever met
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1682105
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"Some Purgatory in order, innit?"
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168221
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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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168221
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Lake Berryessa, CALIFORNIA It was dusk on the 27th of September when the Stocky Man finished his work and trudged casually back across the…
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168299
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Some life in Rosco's walls. He listened with his dead wife Sonya's stethoscope: rustles and scratching, a collective heartbeat.“Vermin”, said Vlad, Rosco's neighbor. “Will take over if no kill.” He smiled with one tooth, urped some vodka. “I…
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168294
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Oh, what jealousy does to us! What love does to the living!
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168222
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168220
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A large crowd of students began to gather around the base of the building that housed the administrative offices, where my hearing was being held. The meeting room was up on the second floor.
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168110
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On beach trips with our families,
there were bumper cars, jet skis;
flash enjoyments,
beach-themed distractions.
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168112
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["GET UP, GET GET, GET DOWN ... 9-11'S A JOKE IN *your* TOWN!"]
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16811913
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168101
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Be it a moment of zen, an epiphany, a vision, or even an ill-tempered chinese food inflicted dream, I've seen what's been shrouded carefully behind you… ahead of me.
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I tried to talk, but only / whispers slithered out.
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