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Buyers of freelance writing have a well-deserved reputation for responding slowly, thereby increasing your pleasure in much the same way that the Pointer Sisters longed for a slow hand.
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121984
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The Houston police devised a punishment for the adulterous thespian that would not hurt the nights or household income of his French young wife.
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121932
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The elephant kept popping in and out of the savannah--which is to say, in and out of existence. It was an African bush elephant, which made this trick even more impressive.
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121971
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In a few brief moments the entire sky became full of this wetness and greyed to the point of almost blackening, and it was a Sunday morning, and the man thought that thoughts were strange things, because he had a piercing epiphany that there was no God..
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121934
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What I Love About HistoryMy roommate, Cara, wears all black, which she thinks scares me. I've never bothered to tell her I wore all black for two years, eighth and ninth grade, and I'm just over it, not that I think she's lame or passé, but there's nothing remotely…
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121962
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Sometimes one person's shelter is another person's storm.
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Now as my fearful hand goes unwittingly up I search the faraway trees for the closest possible answer I know I don't know. The clever waiting beast is looking my way with an intelligent roving eye that says he likes to hit. It doesn't matter. You're worse…
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121800
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Martin Heidegger wore hearing protection out on the tarmac at JFK. The runways were broad and he danced and leapt with the freedom of a Cats performer while he guided planes to the terminal.
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121874
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we're not at war / with the world. We have papers.
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121822
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you are the most uptight pansy I have ever met
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121831
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At a time when jazz had its share of royalty–kings, dukes, and counts–Young was democratically elected the President by an aristocratic vote of one; the best jazz singer alive, his sometime lover Billie Holiday.
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121871
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In 1978, a computer program became privy to my grandmother's most secret thoughts.
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121898
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When our kids were very young, my wife and I believed it was important to give our children traditions that they could grow up with. One such tradition that we shared each Thanksgiving was to walk down by the cliffs along the ocean. We'd all go, our kids…
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121821
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The logic of the impoverished was amazing. Like Rita telling me I owed her fifty cents for a token after she stole five million yen from me.
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121833
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his mother brought him to me/ when he was very young/ maybe a few months old,/ born in arizona july.
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121821
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She picked the fish out of the box leaving a pool of mucus and blood slowly congealing on the shelf and dripped it toward the kitchen table. Outside the wind lashed the tops of the poplar trees together and rain sprayed from the barn roof opposite.
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121876
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Regime is elected officials ignoring constituents, ignoring protestors, ignoring history
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121820
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Left, I see parkland and cyclists and sun. Right: picnic blankets, naked men and lunchtime assignations.
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121885
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On the river he rows a dory. It is filling with water. There is a rectangular hole in the bottom.
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He'd hung above her head for months.
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121820
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And now, the weather. The Cloud Wranglers have roped three solid clouds this morning, preventing the clouds from raining iron bars onto Human Brain Storage Center #17.
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121896
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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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121854
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Max is the color of burnt caramelized sugar
the sweet crust that decorates our bright enameled pots.
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121744
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A man jumped off the High Level Bridge this morning.
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121752
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I am not covetous for catnip,
Nor care where I sleep at night.
It irks me not who takes my
Favorite chair, or swats me off a table.
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121720
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No matter how you do it, forgetting something doesn’t mean as much once you’ve forgotten.
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121777
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yet fiction, despite contrary reports, from two ends of the American spectrum, does not mean lies, in my HUM
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He begins talking about string theory. He reels me back in, from the dinosaurs to the infinite, human evolution and alternate dimensions, until it makes so little sense that everything makes sense.
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