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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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164852
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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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1648134
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the urgent, naked glow of opportunity
or
the dim fluorescent nuisance of an object out of reach
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1648103
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One afternoon the kids from next door come over. Marion is our age, Jimmy a year younger. Marion's pretty. I can't even look at her.
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16471210
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I avoid weddings like the plague.
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164700
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Sometimes he could feel so small he believed he could fit through the eye of a needle.
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16471913
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164752
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i built a house in the trees
before i lived in the sky
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164784
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I had to kill someone today. Do not be alarmed, she was only real to me.
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164700
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Ireland - her beauty is like a drug.
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164751
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...was discovered today hanging from a shower outlet in his bathroom...
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16472011
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Reality for us must be broken so we can fix the one small insect of it we can capture and pin, wriggling.
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1646147
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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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164686
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You lazy fuckwit! You half-assed shithead!
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16461913
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164663
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I infuriate myself with this gift.
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164611
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Somewhere, a mathematician is going mad in a box that decreases in size at the same speed it takes the mathematician to find a way to get out. At least he’ll die with an epiphany, which is more than we can say for you.
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164688
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164600
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A brief novel excerpt featuring two characters breaking out in song, with lines like 'Arabian knights dance sheikh to sheikh.'
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164675
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They politely urged him not to get too involved with his creations.
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164653
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And she tried to laugh, to justify her half evasion, to dismiss the memory of their vitriolic breakfast conversation.
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1646128
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He said his wife levitated.
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1646156
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It was not that he was boring – it’s just that he needed a lot of encouragement. When he came, he whispered to himself, ‘ohgodohgodohgod’ - like it was something to be ashamed of, to be sorry for. I wanted to hold him close against me but I also n
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164600
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Just as Megumi aimed her spell between Arturo and the shrine, a blast of white light fired like a cannon.
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1646134
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When he leaves herThe weather is glorious of courseUnblinking sunshineHe walks awayShe touches the edge of his sleeve I touch his sleeveBlack jacket flung over his shoulder Black jacket over his…
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164610
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They hovered and darted but, after a while, they seemed to be always around him. Lapping at him like the mellow waves that stroked the muddy bank.
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164610
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"Well if we break for lunch at the same time wanna sit with me? I got fruit roll-ups I'll share."
Cory looked up at the boy, removing her hand from the water only to brush a lock of dark hair from her eyes. He was still smirking, jaw crunching, saliva
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164622
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164550
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The light hurts my eyes, she says.She turns her back to me on the bed, and her shoulder blades shift and jut towards me with aerodynamic lift — nubbin wings so slim, so sharp, so beautiful, they would carry her airborne.She wanted to have our children in this…
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16451512
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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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