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no more trying to keep / the peace, no more trying / to keep every person happy. / Just this: no more.
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148820
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With a roar and short burst of flame, the dragon awoke, startled.
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148864
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Everybody needs a flaw or two. It builds character.
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148820
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The rocket shone in the distance. Cape Canaveral had never looked so pretty.
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148866
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The Misses Moses by Brad Watson from Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives The Moses sisters lived together, alone, in the fine old brick house near downtown where they…
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1488128
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I was hope, and
you were what I can only call
consolation, as day after day you
remained a grief in my throat.
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1488148
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Yes, he'll be quiet. Very quiet. He rocks himself, the ark, suddenly imagining water underneath him, over head, all around. Water, water, water—
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148864
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We bobbed and weaved using our words like the sniffs of two unfamiliar dogs in a Wal-mart parking lot. Wary, but sensing we could be more than just polite neighbors, once we got past the normal darkness of strangers. There was no plot to our story yet, but we both seemed to…
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148876
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In the panic following news of my motorcycle crash, my honey fled the house without coat or wallet, and now, nearly midnight, we don’t even have cab fare home.
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148832
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...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
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148745
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the beeps, rhythmic,
tell us that you're still with us
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1487109
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Polylinguists lash me
with tongues I cannot conjugate
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148733
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148700
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That was the summer that Christine Nelson owned me.
It felt like catching the flu. I had it bad. I was about to turn seven, and it was my first time, and it was bad. A love like that, I don’t know, it’s not a love supreme. It wasn’t completely cru
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148740
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Little stuff at first: mistaking their dog for a cat, attempting to start the car with a bar of soap, or using a newspaper to dry the dishes. Lately, he’d been slipping: calling her by his mother’s name during sex, berating his boss for lackluster profit
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1487198
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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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1487129
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She said, “I think I’m pregnant,” but I thought that the sidewalk looked cleaner than usual,
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148722
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He just had to tell somebody. Anybody.
So he called up his publisher, L., who agreed to meet him at Oliveira’s for a drink. It only took about ten minutes to walk there from his big duplex in the Elmwood, where he was still living with his wife among
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14871510
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when the mirror cracks
my eyes won't cry
it's a perfectly
respectable (romance)
between her and i
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148785
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It's good enough. Spacious. Then the cards but I am not for cards. Sasha directs the people, helping them, at ease and happy even. Strangers that have found a common denominator in games. A brotherhood and sisterhood I can't understand. I watch. I see green…
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148711
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He had a handsome dial tone, we called him every name but his.
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148700
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Still as the knife on the counter there still. Like mothballs in a chest. One with clear bags and newspaper clippings and your scarf inside it. The baby girl could put a mothball in her mouth and suck it like a penny. The way too close to a light bulb bur
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148700
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"Look at the grime on those curtains. Not fit for an Emperor. Pull them down. Put up fresh new ones. Not a spot."
"Oh! Look at this throne. All uneven legs. The gems are not shining. The gold looks dull. Fix it, fix it, fix it!"
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1487117
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When I cook sausages, I am afraid I will not let them sit in the pan long enough, and they will be pink inside. Then, even if the pigs have been handled humanely, I and the person for whom I've prepared this meal will be at risk for some terrible stomach poisoning.Let's say…
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148763
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—Frank, how is your sex life?
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148744
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She wakes up with rosemary.
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148600
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The moon hung in the sky, round and pale, under cover of some wispy clouds.
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1486126
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forced to submit/
to reasonableness//
and universal healthcare.
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148641
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Infinite patience, tempered glass hearts—is this what it takes? /
Shatterproof backtrack, slow march through reversals—too, what it takes.
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148600
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Mayumi and her friends arrived at the beach. The sun was near setting for the night, and a few stars began an early peek in the twilit sky.
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