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Sunday morning beginning with a bang. Accused, found wanting, sentenced.
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159965
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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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159956
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It's tough when muscle gets in the way of memory. The way pain is the only thing I can remember about certain things. Fifth grade, that's what I think of. I think of pain. Not just abstract pain, not some we'll get to it later adolescent angst or ennui.…
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159962
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Chubby. Plump. Pudgy. Portly. Bulky. Buxom. Rotund. Ample. Hefty. Corpulent. Zaftig.
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159964
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This Tippy’s name was Cheryl — something both of them were so far not committing to paper or saying. Unusual in a salesman, she thought. He is insincere and intends to sell her something.
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159988
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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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15981612
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A little poem about prison
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159874
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He calls it an owl glass: he’s allowed: he’s six.
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159898
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When our kids were very young, my wife and I believed it was important to give our children traditions that they could grow up with. One such tradition that we shared each Thanksgiving was to walk down by the cliffs along the ocean. We'd all go, our kids…
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159874
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Food is silly. Eating is silly. Yet the camaraderie of sharing a table is not silly. It is sacred. It becomes silly when the jello arrives.
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15981711
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Each little token is the world/
as you knew it at each time and place
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159800
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There were echoes all around them, their shadows delirious and only existed in short spurts under the breath of the streetlights. They danced as their cigarettes leaked calligraphy across the night sky and she tried to trace it with her finger. He asked her what it said…
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159872
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I must have been six years old at that time, but the events of…
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159811
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On an overcast and humid day in August, Jesus—with Dad’s permission, of course—decided to make his grand return.
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159733
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two roses her eyes
aqua-blue
no, blue-green
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159761
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You look at people
and despise them all.
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159750
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159700
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...the fatal bleeding-out of the love receptors. They call it “Juliet's Tears.”
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159744
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I try to enjoy my bookbut the mannequins keep tapping at the windowWhen I look up they vanish Outsidefibreglass clouds are kept in placeby invisible wires——Sometimes the mannequins …
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159711
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When we started plans for the party, none of us wanted Larry to die, most of all Larry himself.
Actually, when we first started plans for the party, Larry wasn’t dying.
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15972312
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We know them just enough/
to recognize them when we find them.
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159754
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an EZ How to Guide in 50 simple steps
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159777
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He laughs and runs just like the other boys even though he doesn’t have a father now, just his mom.
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159722
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...you should pick a VERY OLD millionaire. Very old, and NOT VERY WELL...
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159700
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Sir Reginald Lionel Windsworth described the match in Englishmen's Lahore Gazette as, "A plethora of mistakes and complete absence of human sense."
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159700
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I'm subconsciously a sucker for guys who are no good for my
self-esteem. Or waistline.
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159797
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a girl with wolves, dogs and a bear
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1597104
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"Nice one, sir," the toilet said.
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159732
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The night we broke into Bron-yr-Aur it was too cold to make love. I said I wasn't horny anyway. You put your hand on my forehead: Are you ill?
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