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The Judge waited for the perfect wave.
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162992
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Dear Sir/ Madam I wish to apply for the position you advertised in the Daily Sun. Although my expertise is in self-obliteration and self-worth (or lack of), and my work mainly in disappointment, I do have much experience in failure, which this letter will…
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162997
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Even word dancers need rest.
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16291614
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“Easter’s coming,” my wife says. “Should I dress as a bunny or a chicken?” she asks. She means for the costume party.
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1629116
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The days cut off by damp chill with every thought a different variety of protection.
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162900
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You’re never really asleep. I am never awake. But as the darkness fades, I read. Your body tells my story.
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162811
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Surrounded by a stressfull sense of trying to understand the human condition. The flawed characters in the story speak of past violence and conflict. It is about a boy who is dealing with a recent suicide attempt on his own life & the regrets that come wi
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16281511
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Poor, pocked Ceres- dwarf planet/
trapped among mere asteroids-
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162820
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A shot in the dark and everything goes black. It's as if the story never happened.
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162833
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You compare the brightly-colored wires sprouting from the bandage wrapped around your stepson's head to a bouquet of flowers. The tech sits in a chair next to Brett's hospital bed and holds up line drawings of common objects: cats, boats, skyscrapers,…
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162800
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When we talked about the lasagna, we were, I see now, talking about different things. I.e., I was talking about lasagna, and you were talking about almost everything but. You weren't talking about the dry, burnt noodles or…
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162895
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My body feels chilly but it's not from the outside temps. It seems to me it's the opposite of a fever.
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162884
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I remember having a beer once
And feeling like a minor god
And I know in some lie you told
Your life began making sense
And I also know that the mind likes logic
But the heart loves chaos
I just hope flies land on the butter of your soul
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162833
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A small bar of glycerin soap floated in the sink full of bloody water . . .
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1628107
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For you have waited. And waited and waited. And soon your slice of bread will be ready.
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162823
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["Mea Culpa" means: I don't care what you think, sorry is when I feel like making you hear me say it.]
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162877
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I spent most of those days in my car. Stashed in the trunk was a cache of precious stones, neatly sorted and separated, bound in smooth black velvet inside a smooth black briefcase.
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1627178
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When I was young and self-born in religion my aunts, uninterested in being washed in the Blood of Christ, called me Preacher Boy. I didn't pay them any attention. It was fine by me, I said, if they wanted to sit around and paint their toenails . . .
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1627146
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She drinks a chocolate martini. I fold myself up and slide into her pocket.
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1627169
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Have you ever spent twilight in a old pasture?
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162743
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We decide not to go to the emergency room
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162700
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“Do we really want to treat her? Is she even really sick, or does she live in a country as real as ours, but one we can never visit?”
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162721
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Allie didn't share that moment with Jim. That moment he spoke about whenever they made new friends as a couple— that moment he planned to recount at their engagement party.
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162776
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"I'm in a wrestling movie!" you shouted.
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162788
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His mother was a ballerina.
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162765
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When I first started out in my working career, I made it the habit of obtaining jobs with companies that were about to go under. (I wrote more books while on unemployment than by any other method.) I was a real bloodhound at sniffing out the pre-dawn od
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