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171777
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As spilled on a sandy Corona del Mar beach/both in moonlight and starlight so lovely/and strangely sad as if receding still
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171700
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“Imagine a Shakespearean scholar coming upon an undiscovered work by the Bard. That’s how thrilling this is."
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171763
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There’s an unending parade of drifters, outlaws and crazies and I always have to watch my back, but, then again, that’s nothing new.
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171711
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From above we see the trampled grass circling the house. Trampled grass from where half starved alligators circled the house, hissing and issuing low moans. Half starved alligators deranged by the red skies circled the house in the late August of the last year. Beginning in…
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171778
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“You should've let him drown,” she once told me. Doesn't she see that I did? I'll let her drown, too.
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17171412
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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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1717136
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She’s changed leaves to emeralds. Worn a shawl of inked birds’ wings.
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171744
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She wakes up with rosemary.
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171762
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Sometimes one person's shelter is another person's storm.
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17171711
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Pholcidae...Daddy Long-Legs
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17172012
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Our ironies don’t make us happy
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17162112
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We lie sleepless at night, enraged,/
and finger the keyboard
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171655
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You will never know how much it hurts
When someone else touches your face.
But I also know how much you count on others
To pull the slivers out of your heart.
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171600
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Scott was sure his father was reassured by the sticky stains in his Penthouse; Dad found them when Scott was thirteen. Dad had just one issue of that venerable porno, which Scott defiled with his joy. It was not the Penthouse models…
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171620
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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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1716116
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Even in the fading light, it looked big enough to disembowel a man.
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171600
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Ahead, she heard voices. She approached very slowly, as quiet as possible. She knelt behind a pair of shrubs and peeked through a small opening.
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171645
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. . . a visitor from the preceding century would have been aghast to the point of vomiting to behold the regard with which pandas were now held almost universally.
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171665
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When I got to Pete's house he was sitting on the curb smoking a cigarette, bruised and dirty, with a smoking pile of rubble behind him where his house used to be. I hadn't heard yet, but his ol' girl left him and blew up the house when she left.
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171631
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"On the podium at Pride, he owned that he'd loved taking his children to playgroup as he got to ogle all the breast-feeding mothers. "
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1716156
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Call it a spell or a prayer or a ritual; it worked.
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1716106
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The trees would answer with a creak and a crackle.
Fall was near, a rotten apple.
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17161112
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Tunnel hobos, all hootched up high, think a sign's all about super powers, mind reading, clairvoyance, dig?
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17151717
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Something about shadows and last time and driving.
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171545
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. . . it's all we ever want -- the holding.
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171553
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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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171532
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How does a mixed couple come together in the Troubles?
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171552
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Ben considered his options in the taxi to Charles De Gaulle airport.
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171551
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...was discovered today hanging from a shower outlet in his bathroom...
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