1711 6 1
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You look at people
and despise them all.
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1711 4 5
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Paulette lived on the east side on Paulette Avenue. Mama dropped me off when we wanted to play Barbies. Her neighborhood was a little green lily pad in a swamp of blight and disrepair. A ghetto moat ringed around those three fancy blocks like a first line of defense,…
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1711 5 4
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facts are facets are / things in the act // the truth speaks softly // as time saying amber / to the enduring sap // words come and go / like leaves like men // we the tree remain ...
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1711 3 0
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But Jeffrey was flabbergasted and couldn’t explain to the officer why he was speeding. All he could manage to get out as an attack of Tourette syndrome hit were nasty, flamboyant obscenities. The Alabama state trooper wasn’t amused.
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1711 2 1
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He repeated these six words like a prayer. His only confession.
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1711 6 4
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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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1710 0 0
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The sound built up, louder and louder causing birds and insects to fly into the air. Then it stopped.
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1710 0 0
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Jaume jumped up from the bar, a wide smile across his face. He hugged his old friend and planted a kiss on his wife's cheeks. He was buzzing from the chance encounter, marveling how life had brought them together after all these years. There had to be a r
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1710 4 4
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It was a dark and stormy night.
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1710 2 1
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Tell them words are math counting forever four letters of truth
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1710 4 3
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Here’s the keys to the house
Here’s the keys to the car
I’m going out and I don’t care
I’m going out to buy a cigar
Don’t bother locking up after I leave
I’m not coming back anymore
I’m going to drink whiskey out of a jar
Go out and buy
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1710 2 2
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Light “I can escape the feeling of complicity in it only by speaking out.” The professor arrives on time, sockless. The former a sign of his polite upbringing. The latter, his lack of pretense and high …
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1710 2 1
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Slipshod shoes were the first sign of a meltdown. Sometimes she could see it coming. A prickly gentleman washing his clothes on a Thursday afternoon. One week he’s fine. Nothing wrong with owning a sour face. The next Thursday, his shoes don’t match.
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1710 3 3
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Things looked way too normal to be normal. The cold, gliding black eyed swans never once straying far from each other's wake, the cute blue jeaned lovers everyone secretly watched carefully picking their trickling way over small odd rocks and…
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1710 1 2
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I have no confidence that you'll complete the task. Shit, you probably don't even understand it in the slightest.
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1710 14 8
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His wife had just come from the gynecologist and was toying with her French fries.
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1710 2 2
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Not to sound too ridiculous, but Hurt was giving me the hurt, and it felt good.
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1710 13 12
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Today I'm feeling fertilized by an egg—
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1710 0 0
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Their faces covered in shadow, smiles so relaxing, a tall woman approached her, gently rubbing her face. Her lips moved with no sound, but Sora subconsciously understood what she said.
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1710 6 3
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Another bird hits the large plate glass patio doors as I am sipping my morning coffee.
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1710 2 0
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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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1709 1 0
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At last one of the men on the line bowed his head in a silent prayer for deliverance from what was about to come, then lifted his head and shouted loudly for his fellows to charge.
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1709 0 0
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You and I will never meet. You will never even know I existed. Even in dreams you will never imagine me. Someone told me once that your sleeping mind cannot conjure up new faces. It just spits out all the ones you’ve ever seen and that’s it. That’s it.
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1709 9 4
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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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1709 18 10
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At some point, indifference//
will swallow the small gasps./
The appalling will become the norm.
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1709 3 1
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Fat robins are chirping –
loudly – at 4 a.m.
They’re trying to delude
the worms into thinking it’s
dawn already
The worms get up underground
They’re grumpy, they
bump into things
They come up to the surface
and Wham! That
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1709 0 0
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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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1709 5 5
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This story is falling head-first into a mud-puddle.
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1709 7 7
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He laughs and runs just like the other boys even though he doesn’t have a father now, just his mom.
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1709 12 4
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Xanax, A hand gun, And the courage to pull the trigger
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