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For reasons he couldn't fathom, his motorcycle only moved in reverse. He engaged the engine and lurched backward hard. He called a friend, a gear-head with perpetually dirty nails, asked him to look it over.
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172270
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On the way to the drinking fountain, Elysia Martin, a third grader at St. Michael's Parochial School, heard a voice calling her name. When she turned toward the white plaster statue of the Virgin Mary that sat between twin hedges in the rose garden, she
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172200
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The sound of the crowd’s excitement, their smiles, and laughter started to turn Mayumi’s thoughts about life in the Magi world.
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172253
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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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1722104
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"Nice one, sir," the toilet said.
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172294
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I It's been there all week, Nose tucked into tail Comfort found between impact and asphalt II I'm still here logged out, still here Had it with the billboards the check engine light milemarkers... Just…
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172194
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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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172166
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some answers are enough to make you cry or laugh yourself to death
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172132
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172165
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I reach into my pocket for my keys and discover the cough drops Iput there a week ago have melted. Now my fingers are sticky. And I don’t have my keys.
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17211716
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saw the world was a mess
I did nothing about it, poured myself some apple juice
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1721126
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In the summer that my mother returned from wherever she had gone after her divorce, she and I moved to a large, old farmhouse high on a hill, far from the town where I had grown up. The farmhouse was over a hundred years old and no one had lived in it for…
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172111
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The bathing suits are like Christmas dresses.
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172111
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...the dead have...communicated into the high tech microwave towers of modern Prague. And their messages now may mount to the stars, confusing millions.
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172100
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172176
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172131
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Warning: Open and read before making any dumb-ass New Year's resolutions.
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172100
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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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172142
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A is a hole in the series of letters, each of which is also a hole in the series of letters.
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172000
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Her fever spreads through lines of a plaid mini, over burnt milk, darkened to yellow. Fingers explore fabric folds up and into the lost dimensions of logic.
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172074
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God damn you women get me all /
twisted up thinking oohrahrah and lala
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172063
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“I mean it, Hanna. I don't want you to.” But his leg felt carved away where her head had lain. One stupid thing jostling another for attention. He was afraid that if she touched him again, he'd have her on the ground.
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1720198
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A proper study of human history should
lead the student to an inescapable desire
to commit suicide
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172022
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So it's me and two other girls...
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172011
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172011
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The crowd- which consisted of exclusively men with beards and djembe drums and women with hairly legs poking out of corduroy patchwork skirts- cowered and crawled in fear around the angry man-bomb, mortally frightened yet encouraged to shimmy because the
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172064
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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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171994
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don't look at me honey, I fell on the table,
my hair is on fire, my heart is unstable
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171987
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It doesn't take a genius to figure how he sank, in the drink, like Jeff Buckley. Like a stone.
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You can tend to recognise the difference between a good and mediocre mind by observing how each reacts to a misfired original idea.The mediocre mind will praise the merely meretricious, but ignore the more interesting bad art. The higher mind will value the misfired…
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