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Another bird hits the large plate glass patio doors as I am sipping my morning coffee.
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165620
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He gave her cancer. He gave her cancer.
Not what she said. She said her relationship gave her cancer. Her relationship with him. Gave her cancer.
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165564
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We became The World Famous Shadow Puppet Theater because we thought that the best way to become world famous was to act as though we already were.
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165551
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I have a tablet called, The Shit List...
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165582
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13 rooks on a lifeless tree
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165531
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165583
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the sound of ashes/ being poured in the kitchen
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165500
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...the fatal bleeding-out of the love receptors. They call it “Juliet's Tears.”
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16551412
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You call your wife. “Do you see what I see?” you ask.
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165521
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My wife storms into the kitchen with a pink mako shark slung over her shoulder, barking "Dinner!" towards me as I sit on the counter swishing my middle finger through a bowl of sand.
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16551513
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I asked the hospice nurse about maggots.
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16551112
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Regrets lined behind him like crossties on a railroad track.
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165421
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Ug seemed kinda down in the dumps so, uncharacteristically for a male hominid, I asked him why he looked so glum.
“Ug no find nice girl,” he said, poking a stick in the dirt.
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165486
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My wife tells me/your dog has vomited/
on the carpet AGAIN!
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165445
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Lawrence Light had two degrees: business and theology. I liked the clean font he chose for his resume. At the interview, his face was open. His eyes were bright.
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165400
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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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165431
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As a rule, she calls me whenever she’s waiting for her train or bus. ‘Hiya… How’s life-’ she starts off sweetly. Even though I should know better by now, I can only respond in the same old way. I’ll say: ‘Hi Kate!’. Next, I’ll try to te
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165472
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I must have been six years old at that time, but the events of…
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165420
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In traffic I cry bloody murder, but my bloodlust subsides once I'm in Valhalla. Chip Whitehead wants to see me on the 22nd floor before I start my shift. Charlie and the other suits have been looking at me funny since I sent Chip a memo suggesting the recession…
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165464
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It's that day in July when you feel really bummed because you can't find your favorite white sleeveless shirt that you wear on the hottest days of the yea
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165333
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two roses her eyes
aqua-blue
no, blue-green
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165361
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You look at people
and despise them all.
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165300
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"You've fallen out of love with me, is that it? That you'll leave me for another girl, who has bigger boobs and fucks you better than I do."
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165341
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In mid dream, mid journey, there's a barrier we must cross, flat and vast like an ocean. We're told the barrier is a monster. To cross the barrier we must maim one of its eyes. There, rising to the surface is half a large…
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16531716
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saw the world was a mess
I did nothing about it, poured myself some apple juice
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165353
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Twenty-two tornadoes tore through Toronto, spiraling steel and stone to the streets where she stood, texting her best friend.
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1653124
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Xanax, A hand gun, And the courage to pull the trigger
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165266
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some answers are enough to make you cry or laugh yourself to death
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I heard this story from my grandmother who heard it from her grandmother who heard it from an uncle, who was a monkey.
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