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The last night, I shivered in bed until three a.m.,
the blankets wouldn’t work,
or the socks,
or my tears,
but I reassured my heart
that my next love would be warmer.
He was.
And our air conditioning bill was so high we could’t afford it.
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The army was bulldozing grandmother's house.
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1.As fast as that I wake to astonishing desire. I'd met you at my parents' house just the weekend before but for them (them the drained students trying to relax, refill before their afternoon sessions) you are the stranger in the room,…
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1494105
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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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149476
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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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149388
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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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149300
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Normally, Aidan looked like a guy. A highly feminine guy, but still a guy. He wore his hair in a buzz cut (a turn on of mine), wore tight clothes, worked out so he had a bit of muscle, but nothing over the top. And he was my guy.
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149322
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my mouth is open, ready to bite your tiny toes
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14932310
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If I should wake/
before I die,/
just shoot me through/
the one good eye.
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149322
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" I have no idea what's goin on out here, and I'm gonna find out one way or another."
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149343
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Unconsciously she shook her head at her own weakness in coming out to see Wayne when things were in shambles at home. Guilt had beat resolve in the cosmic game of rock paper scissors.
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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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149343
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“I want you to know that you are being watched,” Ernie said. “I have trained a camera on your work station.”
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149320
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The rocket shone in the distance. Cape Canaveral had never looked so pretty.
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1493129
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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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149366
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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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149375
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...the daffodils will fling/
their yellow petals, taunting winter
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149365
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They acquire him in a bar that is famous for its shipwrecks.
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149344
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She wakes up with rosemary.
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149355
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there should be a word for it.
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149330
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Chapter one I was sitting in the doctor's office. For weeks, my nerves had been on edge, and I had been feeling like he was going to have a nervous breakdown. I needed the help of a professional. It was hard for me to admit this. I was taught that a man handled…
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149332
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...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
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149287
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a mere forty years/and maybe you become twelve,/maybe sixty-three.
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149254
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“Sixty-seven responses!” Al Edelstein announces at the first meeting of the search committee. It has been just two weeks since Rabbi Feldman dropped dead of a heart attack and just a week since the congregation ran the ad: “Help Wanted: Orthodox Rabbi. Im
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149200
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The moon hung in the sky, round and pale, under cover of some wispy clouds.
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149276
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I pay for 3 Trump Troll Dolls and a package red licorice twizzlers and head back toward the door. Dancing Gnome Girl is there to greet me. I stick a twizzler in the teeth of the donation pail.
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149275
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If the Titanic rises from the bottom of the sea,
I will meet you on deck, in a deck chair.
Fully dressed for a change.
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-Love is a rushing
of blood
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