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"Penning a slight of tongue well versed
or worse, a salacious lie..."
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167174
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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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167120
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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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167151
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Two summers later, the ritual began. Carol left her house at midnight, having served her husband and daughter a heavy dinner that left them caged in their sleep. She was like a thief working in reverse: she rose from bed with her husband’s first snore,
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What grabbed the mind when you heard about it was the way he did it.
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167163
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Another bird hits the large plate glass patio doors as I am sipping my morning coffee.
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167120
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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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167033
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By February, I had decided,
That you'd tear out my throat every morning
if it meant your favorite song would play from my neck.
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167089
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I’m deathly afraid of the pub crawls
of my ancestors, through Bohemia and Fitzrovia
because of the ghosts of alcohol already
etched inside my veins
and the headlong loss of oxygen
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167072
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I must have been six years old at that time, but the events of…
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166921
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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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166986
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Your laugh used to startle the nurses.
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1669105
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He was instantly on her, pulling at her nightgown
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166943
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Unconsciously she shook her head at her own weakness in coming out to see Wayne when things were in shambles at home. Guilt had beat resolve in the cosmic game of rock paper scissors.
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166983
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the sound of ashes/ being poured in the kitchen
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166955
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awoke in confusion, fear and hurt never seen before that day a year past
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166963
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A week ago, Lina had felt a pain crack over her right eyebrow. It was there every day, creeping from her ear to the middle of her forehead.
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166942
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166994
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William Shakespeare (a surname that meant "wanker" back in the day, by the way)
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166985
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Marv felt a stirring. Warmth in his gut. "Maybe we should get together," Marv said.
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166866
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some answers are enough to make you cry or laugh yourself to death
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166884
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We brought oxygen with us because we knew, everyone knows, there is no air on Mars. Everyone told us this as they waved goodbye back on Earth. Jay's mom even said, “Goodbye, honey, have a nice time and remember, there's no air on Mars. Are you aware of that?”…
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1668104
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I do this when I think of you. Today we took the first steps towards you're never here.
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Xanax, A hand gun, And the courage to pull the trigger
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166800
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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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166842
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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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166862
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I took a lover on Ibiza either because he was clean-smelling or because he had a hotel room and there were none to be had.
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166888
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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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166865
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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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