1510 3 3
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eleven o'clock spills
despair all over
our bedspread
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1510 2 1
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The car has been parked there for slightly more than a day now, and nothing has occurred—there’s nothing “unusual,” nothing “amiss.” Except that it’s there, still, as he follows his boys to school.
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1510 21 12
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It chases other newborns down and eats them.
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1510 1 0
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Dana Weinstein, whose pet dog died last year, has spent nearly $50,000 over the last six months to clone her precious Chinese pug, Yu, so she could have 'Yu Too'."It's definitely not for most people," said Dana about her extreme measures to recreate her pet. "No other dog…
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1510 9 7
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In half-dreams she saw a pale alchemist kneeling before a stitched together abomination, witchcraft and science merged, mocking God’s fire.
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1510 1 0
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He was almost dying when I reached the hospital. I walked past the open automatic sliding doors into the lobby, almost vacant except a few people milling around, the nurses fighting sleep behind the desks while waiting for their shift to end.
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1509 8 3
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"She began singing The Police song, 'Roxanne' in a falsetto voice, just like Sting."
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1509 9 6
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Hey, how are you? she squeaked.
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1509 14 8
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In the gutter, the paper signs turned back to pulp.
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1509 4 1
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When his brown eyes met the lapis colored stones representing hers, she leaned forward from her exalted position and whispered to him, “Save me.”
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1509 5 3
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She came to my house late that last night and shucked off her things and we slow-danced to Cruisin' as beaded rainwater slid off her black hair to the floor. She smiled an almost quizzical smile as she drank me there with her eyes, as if I was some…
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1509 4 4
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When I got that brain tumor I hallucinated this crazy doctor. Dr. Doug. He came into my…
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1509 1 2
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It distresses me that you will never lust after me /
the way you did for that girl /
who had her hands around your belt
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1509 2 0
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Joseph K. ran a publishing house in the shadow of the Castle.
Perhaps “publishing house” is too grand a title. Joseph K. kept a battery of six or seven (depending on repairs) manual typewriters, a crate of carbon paper, and a large stapling machine
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1509 6 4
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It’s all a matter of warped mirrors. As in the multi-mirrored passage I stood before as a boy
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1509 2 1
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I knew nothing about the letter at first. When I came in that morning and smiled and said good morning, it was a genuine smile and a heartfelt good morning. But the letter, which had arrived the previous afternoon, was already doing its corrosive work of
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1509 1 0
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["LIKE SAND THROUGH THE HOURGLASS ... SO ... ARE THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES!"]
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1509 7 6
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1509 2 0
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Summer nights in Boston, old cast iron streetlights.
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1509 9 6
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I cannot begin to list all the ways this conversation can go downhill from here, so I hang up the phone quietly.
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1509 1 1
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We begged him to sell us some shade. Just enough for half an hour, until our bus would pick us up and drive us to our next destination, continuing what was turning out to be a purgatory tour of forgotten Mediterranean towns.
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1509 24 8
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On finding out that gonads are part of the female anatomy as well.
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1508 9 8
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... black holes suck in matter and supernovas explode.
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1508 15 7
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In one of the cartoons I watched as a child, Popeye the Sailor gives Olive Oyl a bouquet of flowers. She is thrilled, he walks on air, thinking they will marry. His one-eyed heroism is soon challenged by Bluto however, who pours cement into Popeye's bath. It goes…
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1508 12 9
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How to Boil Water
How to Cook an Egg
How to Eat
How to Think
How to Love
How to Die
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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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Devoid of flesh and muscle,
Composed of bone and air.
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The porous bear the anchorite’s vial
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