1611 4 3
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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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1611106
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Her smile dazzled me from across the room.
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161131
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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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161186
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My wife tells me/your dog has vomited/
on the carpet AGAIN!
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161111
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Later, your father stared, confused, at the empty spot where the wall paint layers ended in the shape of the old machines. He stopped coming in.
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1611128
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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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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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161131
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As a rule, she calls me whenever she’s waiting for her train or bus. ‘Hiya… How’s life-’ she starts off sweetly. Even though I should know better by now, I can only respond in the same old way. I’ll say: ‘Hi Kate!’. Next, I’ll try to te
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161144
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“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”
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161132
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Hope was beauty before I even knew what beauty was with her golden pigtails, brilliant blue eyes and an infectious smile — even after Jamie Delano flung his Frisbee, knocking out Hope’s two front teeth.
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161045
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the beeps, rhythmic,
tell us that you're still with us
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161000
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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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161065
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She stood there with her back to me and her dress around her ankles.
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1610126
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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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161041
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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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16101211
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The cataclysm of all those photons/
mad to be a part of you
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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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1610127
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Essences of bull and bison,//
stag and horse, illuminate/
the stony underground.
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161075
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He plucks the feathers and winds thread to simulate an insect’s torso.
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161011
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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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161077
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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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1610115
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“I’m tired, Art” The Virgin said. She was already curled up beside their dog,
Lance.
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161031
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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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161054
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Bill decided he hated his neighbors on a Sunday morning in June.
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1609115
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If I felt like reading a book
then I would read a book
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160931
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If this is trouble, please call someone else.
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160942
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Although badly educated, and although the Michoacána fought to deny it, she held the complex notion that borders are not abrupt lines, simple artifacts of geography and cartography.
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160974
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I was just sitting in the corner, stirring my stories with a straw that sucked characters out of bars.
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16091610
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A figure left the building.
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