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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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16801210
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I avoid weddings like the plague.
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168000
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Some things you never forget, especially if they are repeated frequently. I cannot hear her voice saying those words, now, I have forgotten its timber, its pitch, but I remember the words.
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168051
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...was discovered today hanging from a shower outlet in his bathroom...
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168032
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Some claimed seeing him that first time in the grocery store staring in at the pints of Haagen-Dazs, his breath fogging the glass as his head rested against the heavy freezer doors, stinking in his Sasquatch suit. The second time he was…
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168078
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The bad optical, crossed or dead or lazy or stray
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16801912
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I was to limp with stunned, growing horror, as I navigated through the swirling smoke and maze of human corpses...
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168074
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Somebody needs to call Frank. The pediatrician who fixes cars on the side.
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167941
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I'm in our bed eating yesterday's pizza and chain-watching pirated foreign horror films
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167933
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It is another evening of ordinary sand. The moon worms, all mellow and white, glow shine over the laminated floor. Shay's bladder is full, and protesting with a thump of ache. Shay holds on nervously.Last time she pissed tiny silver fish that roiled in the froth of her…
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1679127
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The dog awakens at the sound of a petal falling, sure that barbarians are at the gate. She opens wide her yellow teeth.
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I knew a girl on Folly Island who took
showers in water so hot
her skin blushed pink rosettes.
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167921
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We received the news unexpectedly. The suspicion was true. The nausea and fatigue were caused by the honor of your presence in our lives. We had waited for you for years. We had prayed endlessly for the universe to bless us with your gift; with you as our gift. And…
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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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167997
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It's about dinner time. My neighborhood is in Sa-bur-bia. Driving my gold 2007 Malibu i pass Chick. She notices me and stares standing in front of her house. We were friends about ten years ago. Chick is still divorced. Tall skinny legs. Educated blu-ish eyes. Wet…
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167910
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I'm going up and down elevators all over the Financial District and I have no office.
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16791412
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She was sick and tired of marriage. She didn't want to be a mother, but now she was.
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16791510
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when the mirror cracks
my eyes won't cry
it's a perfectly
respectable (romance)
between her and i
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167952
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Does the stuff at the dollar store really work as well as the stuff at Calvin Klein?
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167855
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F.B.I. then or: "I said later 'for a boob job' and imagined her, a public lawyer, wandering Arizona on foot unable to hide a Playboy-Mansion style rack."
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I first met you in a February, but my best early memory is of your deep and sweaty tan. You'd been to Florida, I ran into you in the market, the sight of your tan made me hard for your pale parts. It was summer, you were dressed all in white, I invited you…
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the smell of the small cedar chips burning in the fireplace
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Now his daughter was an American citizen and Max wanted only the chance to board the SS Maua and disembark in New York.
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167844
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I call him a Staffordshire terrier. You call him a pit bull. Some people say he's lovable. Other people say he'll bite your face off without thinking too hard.
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167864
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Here are some ideas for stories I have had. 1. A captain of a whaling ship loses his leg to a whale, and makes it is life's mission to find this beast and kill it, and make a pair of boots, belt, and wallet out of its skin. 2. Ten people are invited to stay the weekend at a…
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I am reintroducing myself.
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16781412
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Usually I’m the only guy in a roomful of women. Some of them are foxy, too.
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167852
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I am getting twisted like a cruller into the mess I have made of this morning and I am stretching the meaning of morning to way past its boundaries.
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