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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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166385
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Marv felt a stirring. Warmth in his gut. "Maybe we should get together," Marv said.
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166270
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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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1662115
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If I felt like reading a book
then I would read a book
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166296
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I held her hand through two divorces, I warned her that gorgeous Geoffrey was homosexual when she was oblivious, and I fed her children when she was off at rehab (four times before it 'took').
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166244
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It was a dark and stormy night.
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166281
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The dowdy woman in fart nailed the vim.
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166221
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What was so bad about other religions that their followers were automatically condemned to eternal damnation? The priests were so convincing when they claimed Christ was the only true way.
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1662105
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He was instantly on her, pulling at her nightgown
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1662128
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fetal position can make a man seem small. harmless. like the child your womb won't carry...
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166221
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He repeated these six words like a prayer. His only confession.
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166242
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1662128
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Trigger warning: casualties of war.
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166265
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Cézanne sags during a moment of paint. There is an umbrella in the room whose surface collects his thoughts. Outside, in the rain, the grass and garden smell strongly of spring. Fruit litters the table. Light through the window writhes in conversation with shape and…
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166176
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In human rights, a man and a woman may marry and bring forth a family. It is a civil right in the U.S. but not a human right (as far as I know) to raise a child singly without the knowledge of the other parent.
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166100
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I figure maybe I’m mostly alone; they are all running down staircases or falling down fire escapes, some of them naked, some of them with towels, mostly probably naked though.
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166177
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I can barely pick out the numbers on the houses
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166100
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...the fatal bleeding-out of the love receptors. They call it “Juliet's Tears.”
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16611211
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The cataclysm of all those photons/
mad to be a part of you
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166172
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"Penning a slight of tongue well versed
or worse, a salacious lie..."
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166120
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Contemporary persecution of Christians takes on milder forms of torture like having to explain away something Pat Robertson said, or constantly having to hear about Fred Phelps picketing funerals because he happens to hate homosexuals.
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166100
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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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166100
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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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1661118
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He liked to take pictures of her, and she liked to pose. It made her horny, she said.
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166143
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166120
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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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166066
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some answers are enough to make you cry or laugh yourself to death
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1660147
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like the dome of an immense lamp
like blades of grass at the sweep of the scythe
like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide
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166086
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remembering Cahokia, a place we rent near the water's edge, for we dare not enter
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1660109
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Polylinguists lash me
with tongues I cannot conjugate
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