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awoke in confusion, fear and hurt never seen before that day a year past
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She left knives and hot pots with handles akimbo. Like a guardian angel, he turned them in. Like an ungrateful Eve, she turned them back out.
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I hold them to the light...
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Theresa Esposito woke to the smell of pignoli cookies baking. The sweet scent made her stomach rumble. She was ten-years-old today. And she felt ten. Her hair, her ears, her eyes, her toes — everything felt ten.
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an EZ How to Guide in 50 simple steps
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Now you are a raving bare-forked fool madman with nothing.
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[B]y fleeing the city to live on the outskirts of nowhere—a place so far off the beaten path that even Duras’s aging Mr. Andesmas would have felt isolated—I was of course trying to escape from none other than myself.
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The door shuts slowly to something that’s allegedly mine
and it sits there and waits until I come home
just like you.
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The instant you remember
gratitude
with enough focus to spring free its power...
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there should be a word for it.
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Pholcidae...Daddy Long-Legs
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Mrs. L. was sitting on a love seat in her nightgown. She was sitting in a man’s lap....
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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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THIS is what happened — the dead went into remission. Dated may 10 2010. Or it could have been some other day. They were going to be restored later. That's what we were being told. The dead were being given stones to mark their remission. They were getting…
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1507 5 3
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It was midnight. I was outside the cottage, digging another row of star-shaped holes for the shrubbery.
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—It’s difficult to say, he said. I have mood swings. Women don’t like that. They become upset.
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-Love is a rushing
of blood
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There is nothing like your first time, and by that I am referring of course to the first time you purchased a 45.Going to a record store and buying a 45 is a uniquely Boomer experience. Because, alas, there are no more 45s. Or, for that matter, record stores. The…
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The rocket shone in the distance. Cape Canaveral had never looked so pretty.
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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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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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I’ve just moved to New York City and, somehow, Scarlett Johansson is at the same party I’m at.
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The Assistant is lost again in a grid city. Again she feels disconnected from the world. Where she is the sound has been switched off.
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Once upon a time in the days of old
There lived a poor tailor who- I am told-
Did brag that his daughter
Spun straw into gold!
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the beeps, rhythmic,
tell us that you're still with us
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