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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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150210
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I was shooting baskets in the driveway when the Mexican kid delivered the groceries. He drove in fast and loud . . .
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15021512
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Soon enough, October’s ragged/
lawn will hide its deficiencies//
under withered leaves of oak,
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150221
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He finished the omelet and started in on the short stack. He drowned the cakes in syrup.
-Never can have enough syrup.
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150242
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Something was changing.
We could sense it in the circling air. A loss of stillness - and we'd been still for so long.
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150194
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Once upon a time there was a Vietnamese restaurant. And then there were two, and four, and eight...
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150155
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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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150194
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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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1501106
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They couldn’t have done it better if they’d waved guns around in the air.
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150153
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Sometime in the late 60s when I was thirteen I had this paper route for the San Mateo Times.
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150141
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I am reintroducing myself.
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150100
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Sora rubbed her neck as Azure gave her attention. She did not know where to begin, thinking about what to say first.
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150193
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You looked like someone I didn't want to know. I guess that's why I got in the car that night. My penchant for self-destruction was aroused by your black nail polish and the lavender circles under your eyes. You looked like someone that could hurt me, yeah, that's why I got…
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150144
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I considered kissing Christian. It wouldn’t be terrible. I mean, it might be terrible, but it wouldn’t be awful. His teeth were a little crooked but he didn’t smell or anything.
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150155
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It is said that lovers find lips in the dark through secret brain circuitry.
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150193
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“You have no idea what your lives will be like if you can get out of the ‘hood. You could be driving Volvos, eating Tuscan cuisine, getting MacArthur ‘genius’ grants!”
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15003723
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in a puddle of water, the butterfly rests on a stone
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150062
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Eddie meets Sarah Packard, a “college girl” played by Piper Laurie. She walks with a limp, a fact Eddie doesn’t notice at first because she’s sitting down at a diner table in a bus station. She’s alcoholic and writes poetry.
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1500116
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I might wish I was anything
including some dust on the shelf
where maybe I might blow away
unseen like the coming of rust
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150021
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"For several days thinking they had found a dead man’s boot beside the highway..."
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150054
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Everyone hoped to be assigned somewhere they could just drop in on their way home for Memorial Day weekend. Someone said, Blake, you’re single. You hate your family, don’t you?
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150063
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Let’s say you know so little about me. Like whose idea of a joke to name me Hideo for excellent male. Or why I hang out at triangle Park, ogling expatriates or crusty punks.
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1500148
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Little tech puppies, well compensated for code/
that outsourced laborers will realize in supercheap,/
superchipped gewgaws, sip artisan beers
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1500147
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15001716
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saw the world was a mess
I did nothing about it, poured myself some apple juice
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15001811
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"We gotta get out of here", you said
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150000
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At street level there is a small arrow on which is printed “Museum of Numbers” that points up a long narrow staircase. There is a restaurant on the first floor. All the way up the stairs, the air is permeated with smell of fried foods
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1500104
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"Nice one, sir," the toilet said.
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150031
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Let us be stranded in the Andes and have to eat human flesh or at least toothpaste to survive! Let there be an earthquake! Let there be a flood! Let there be a tornado, a new ice age, an invasion from Mars. Only: let me survive.
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149900
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The sound built up, louder and louder causing birds and insects to fly into the air. Then it stopped.
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