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The stars align against us. Lines of force/
collaborate to push us off the edge/
into the dark abyss we’ve joked about.
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177700
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The words(worlds) have become abstracted through contempt?
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177676
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Revocable Love It was easy lying there with My head on her left breast Listening to the strong Business-like beating of Her heart. She looked down and said Quietly, I told you my love Was revocable. I give it To many men and then I take It back. …
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177632
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All I wanted was to love her.
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177621
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I knew I spoke out of turn when I asked my father's old friend Charlie Jobe what he thought would come of moving to the veterans' camp, or "Village of the Deranged", as the newspaper has since taken to calling it. That was their description after all the
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17761613
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There is no hate in his eyes...
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177632
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"Pull around," Rachel says. "Pull around him, dammit."
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177611
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i killed a poetic boy yesterday. the old ladies in theshadows swore at him when he was walking home proud ashell with a new pocketknife. they told him we dienext week so laugh like you got limes for balls. hecalled them drippy old vultures in his native tongue.they didn't…
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177620
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The more indifferent he had become towards life, the more she had become towards him.
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1776105
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"Some Purgatory in order, innit?"
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177652
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The last time I saw Jackson, I didn’t write down the set list. This time I didn’t write down the set list, either.
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177601
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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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177642
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He had thought of the walk down to Mrs Greensmith’s shop when he and all the men beside him reckoned they’d “had it” that time when II SS Panzer-Division had fought like gods for Hill 212.
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17761717
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I was out of my element. I was on property that wasn't mine. In a woods with mansions tucked away among the trees.
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17761711
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maybe a day in deep winter
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177622
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17761713
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This year we have no need of spring!
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1775169
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How a breeze feels evaporating sweat on neck and forearms.
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177542
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Take shelter from the rain inside the Museum of Sex.
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17751512
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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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177500
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I remember where I was when I heard the news. Across my computer screen: FDA demands recall for 2008 — all 365 days.
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1775137
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That year, if you asked Al, was truly the best of times, the worst of times.
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177541
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Andrew smiled at her while he pulled out his penis. He then held it between his fingers and tugged at it, stretching it much like a rubber band
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177576
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She crossed the room to a tub in the center, the great woman with flowing locks of bronze, turning the taps until a heatless white became warm enough to bathe in. She added soap of some kind and the light became the bubbles,…
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17752311
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177521
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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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177520
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The inhabitants of the surrounding neighborhood steered clear of the Lot, mindful of its existence, its countless drags of scrap, drenched with the fused association of many scenes and emotions from memory and experience. Left to its own devices, the place is now…
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1774147
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Bones consolidate with age. The fleshy/
bits of body follow by wrinkling and/
spreading outward, appearing to expand.
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177400
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She says he is not a real person. He says he doesn't understand. And that she should be with the dudes who want to be her boyfriend.
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177441
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When I bite into a York Peppermint Pattie, I get the sensation of being curled in a ball inside a cold, dark cave filled with my darkest, most paralyzing fears.
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