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Surrounded by a stressfull sense of trying to understand the human condition. The flawed characters in the story speak of past violence and conflict. It is about a boy who is dealing with a recent suicide attempt on his own life & the regrets that come wi
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It is the first day of summer, a blue-green afternoon, and we sit beneath the English oak, Quercus robur. Everything has at least two names. It is the first day of summer, or the last day of something else.
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“There goes that slut Kerri Stanton,” the immense woman behind the counter chuckled to her patron. “Who the hell does she think she is?”
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Morning's first blush, their world in repose. Sated, drained, spent; …
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I'd never seen a dead person before, let alone one that was living just
seconds earlier.
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She stood there with her back to me and her dress around her ankles.
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Her smile dazzled me from across the room.
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The TV projects from an insect arm. It has the face of my ex-husband, smiling and void. I like to set small fires and inhale them.
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The cataclysm of all those photons/
mad to be a part of you
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My wife tells me/your dog has vomited/
on the carpet AGAIN!
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161177
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They blew in the doorway of the café at the French Hotel like two sparrows chasing each other. Their wings down in the dust, unheeding any danger in their hunger for each other. I knew the man who was about to become her husband, so maybe this was her las
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My mother was Irish as Paddy's pig. So all her family. Lovely people they were. Also, seldom seen among the Folk; stone cold sober. My father's family; Bavarian German. Bavaria's the wrong side of the German tracks. Frankfort people laugh at Bavarians as people in…
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“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”
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If I felt like reading a book
then I would read a book
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the beeps, rhythmic,
tell us that you're still with us
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Alysia tried to focus on what was important, but it was too much to bear. She was ready to dive down when a shot of wind blew past her, causing her and Megumi to lose control over their gliders.
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A pinprick breaks the black/
and pins the spin of constellations/
around its still point.
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We sat in silence, the entire train, the few other passengers in anxious wait to see if I would change my mind. We all flipped pages, glanced up at each other, looked away when noticed.
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Defy the impulse to grow beyond/
your means and the means of the/
place where you lie at night.
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A heart which is alive despite everything in the world that wants to deaden it.
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161000
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"One-upmanship" is a strategy for defeating an opponent somewhat unfairly without actually cheating.
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161021
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You were gone, long gone, and I could no longer smell your scent as I walked through the empty house. I couldn't bring myself to unpack the boxes, and they lurked like a forest of overgrown drab Legos.
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Essences of bull and bison,//
stag and horse, illuminate/
the stony underground.
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He plucks the feathers and winds thread to simulate an insect’s torso.
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“It felt like the space under my skin had been filled with desert sand. I did not open my eyes for my body was covered with the dust. A camel could have walked over me and not noticed. I needed to wipe my eyes before I could open them and my body was froz
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You've been given some really cruel thoughts that are not your own.You've been given some really stupid sets of rules which are impossibleto follow. You can learn to manage for yourself. Remember who youwere before they told you who you were. You've been trainedsince birth…
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“I’m tired, Art” The Virgin said. She was already curled up beside their dog,
Lance.
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I’m secretly hoping for a huge bouquet, a fruit basket, a pickle jar of urine in a lunch bag on my doorstep, even.
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Bill decided he hated his neighbors on a Sunday morning in June.
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as distant lights
all must shiver
before joining in
a Milky Way river
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