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Creep up behind me one day and prick my skin. I promise you won’t draw blood – for it is ink that will spurt from my veins.
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He was instantly on her, pulling at her nightgown
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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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So few dreams are the doors they seem.
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Whenever you act as if you're one of themit makes perfectly sad sense tome; you are one of them; we're supposed to believe there areno shadows in that particular choice? When you areone of them, they say youfall asleep with a peaceful droopinglip to your smile. When…
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I was out of my element. I was on property that wasn't mine. In a woods with mansions tucked away among the trees.
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Shred the roses he posted, fling the petals like slideshows of storms.
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We mourn/
in perpetuity and are inured
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The pristine Hudson's/waters dance in the dark of/the East River's rinse.
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I'm in our bed eating yesterday's pizza and chain-watching pirated foreign horror films
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I'm old enough to be her father.
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I met Barry Hannah once in my life. I’d come to Oxford, MS, to meet an entirely different writer whom I thought then and think now very highly of. I’d also come to escape from another slew of regrets. Oxford is a great city to run away to.
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The poet said, ‘I feel the fell of dark, not day.” but day it always is. Bright! Bright!
the city claims its blue salutes; its stopping in mid-sentence at a name where fingers roam a stone.
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a little bitter for the better
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Sunday morning beginning with a bang. Accused, found wanting, sentenced.
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Come, bring your sadness
to the precipice of my body,
bury it within me like a tool
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I have never seen doubt on the face of a Roman general,' he said, ‘but when you looked at me and said “I know”…that was a certainty I'd never encontered. You have crossed the Acheron twice.'
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She knew there were a few rodeos in south Texas scheduled in the next two weeks. Mostly small-time stuff, but riders who hadn't had much luck might be inclined to improve their scores for the pro circuit. She guessed Lorenzo wasn't having much luck.
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Dinner conversation reminds me of the chatter of birds. Happy talk. Nothing real.
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severe snow storm coming. I'm looking for a parking spot and listening to Machito & Charlie Parker
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This cell the sole certainty,
all else steeped in mystery.
Why should we be here?
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I don’t remember much about kindergarten.... The teacher’s name was Mrs. Halverson. She was nice.
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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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KOSHER PORN is a new collection of funny pick-up lines just for Jews, written by humorist Sarah Rosen, and illustrated with photos by Tom Stokes. It's based on Rosen's popular dating blog, Porn4Jews. And it's hilarious. Rosen started her blog after a year and a…
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It’s like drawing with Cesium
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Abominables do roam the earth; I know it.
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A Texas man was recently arrested for failing to return a GED study guide to his local public library. He'd kept it out for three years. This is the kind of news story that brings joy to a librarian's heart.The library where I work just installed a…
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I'd have gone even if I got F's for the entire two weeks. The homeless would have homes, the sick, medicine; the hungry would eat. They could not wait for the generosity of Kurban Bayramı. Now was the hour of relief. The children's eyes. Lambs whose bl
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Every damned time we came back to Richland County, I told JuneBug to just do whatever she had to do but to leave me and Skeeter out of it. And every goddamned time, we ended up somewhere like this, the two sisters hook-armed and conspiratorial, and Skeete
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