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“I won't live here,” Beth said, waving her hand to indicate the small Southern town in which they were having dinner—the most delicious fried chicken either of them had ever tasted—in a restaurant located in an antebellum mansion. She looked…
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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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Something about shadows and last time and driving.
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it's time for the cold, antiseptic
cloth to briskly remove the evidence.
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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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I am reintroducing myself.
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The whole thing is broken. It's like an egg. I'm not saying this to get you to say something else in the sunny opposite direction of the tattooed scar upon my painted backyard scene. I don't really care. It's only on me. Not on you. I'm glad as…
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They had a deal, she reminded him. If he didn’t want to wear a condom all the time, he’d have to help with her birth control.
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It's just another night in the old city, perched in the skeletal radio tower with my collection of telescopes
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Bake sweet rolls and make love to your new wife, fall asleep for three years and grow a beard.
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“When I was six years old, Dad came home from Vietnam and picked me and Mama up from her sister's house in Boston. We packed a U-Haul with everything we owned from T.V. to toothbrush. Dad hitched the trailer to the Rambler and drove us South, back home to Carolina. A…
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“I honestly can't believe how much you eat, honey.”, Lenora said as I put down the fork after gorging myself on breakfast. Twelve pancakes, four eggs, two cups of coffee, a glass of milk, and half a pound of bacon had passed through my lips this morning. …
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I enjoyed the talking part though
rambling on and on for lord knows
why or how
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“Do we really want to treat her? Is she even really sick, or does she live in a country as real as ours, but one we can never visit?”
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The sound of the crowd’s excitement, their smiles, and laughter started to turn Mayumi’s thoughts about life in the Magi world.
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Some things are meant to be repeated
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I started walking around the Jube like any other sheep, lemming, or penguin: passing plate glass windows, one after another.
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Each little token is the world/
as you knew it at each time and place
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"Nice one, sir," the toilet said.
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A tough enough signal to read under the best of meteoric circumstances, this is one maybe I'll keep on thinking about. I might be able to make something everlasting out of this crazy price for love after all. I no longer…
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Although badly educated, and although the Michoacána fought to deny it, she held the complex notion that borders are not abrupt lines, simple artifacts of geography and cartography.
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This cell the sole certainty,
all else steeped in mystery.
Why should we be here?
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He does not read what he’s giving them permission to do to him, just signs the release.
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The clarinet and the accordion are brothers, I see. Big, fat men with curly, klezmer hair.
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What's that snitch doin' here?
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