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Many years ago I visited a nude beach. I undressed at the car and walked with my companions onto a California beach as naked as the day we were born.
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1579119
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skin cancer
walks along Zuma beach
at noon
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1579105
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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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157952
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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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1579148
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157840
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She wakes up sad. She can't shit. She spreads out the foil. no creases. folds it in half. She puts the stuff in the crease. holds a lighter under it. A zippo. then smokes it. Well smokes the smoke. It's like kissing god or the…
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157891
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Naked, we stood in my shower. When she kicked my tool, I noticed she had a toe ring.
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157853
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“You’ve put all my anorexic friends on the table nearest the buffet,” I say. “And all my bulimic friends on the other side of the room away from the buffet and the toilets.”
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1578126
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forced to submit/
to reasonableness//
and universal healthcare.
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157843
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We decide not to go to the emergency room
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157810
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I laughed maniacally in my head at the thought, but I kept picking at it all the same, the bunnies had plans for us.
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157855
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another way to play with all that is that doesn't involve killing for profit. I believe that, don't you? There is always a much kinder response to the failing dawn of secret night. Dancers know the power of this beautiful all encompassing …
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157800
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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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157871
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Emma Louise is walking over a concrete bridge when she spies, out of the corner of her eye, a man fishing, waist deep, in the river tumbling below. She is thinking that the water must be very cold on this autumn day, when she sees an extraordinary thing.
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157822
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He was just walking along, making sure that no white, Hispanic, Native American or Asian people were doing anything illegal when he noticed the young black man walking down the street.
He hadn't meant to.
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1578104
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I hold them to the light...
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1578138
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She bought a dog with short legs to make her own legs look longer.
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157862
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Living lower on the hog than anticipated
lower on the hog than previously expected
lower on the hog than desired
Living on the underside of the hog belly
pretty much bouncing on the ground
beneath the aforementioned hog belly
Living clos
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157892
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Cat's ass was on fire. The roof was scorching hot. Her clothes were in a pile by the door that led to the roof. She was sitting next to the ventilation duct, her hands outstretched behind her, her knees bent before her. Jim was standing in front of…
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157853
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“There’s no real freedom in this world. But a car and the open road is close enough for government work.”
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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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157843
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1578125
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Beneath their feet bedrock stretched a hundred miles
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157854
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Bill decided he hated his neighbors on a Sunday morning in June.
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157763
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"Thanks for the wild sex--let me know if you have any problems with the lint trap."
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157755
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I guess you’re gone now
That’s okay
I guess I can live with my own ghosts
I had no idea
What it meant
But now I do
It meant I was standing
At the end of everything
And did not know it
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She Waited for the other Shoe to Drop
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Her funeral was scheduled for the following Monday, and of course Claudia would attend. Trouble was, Monday was a workday for my parents. So when neither Mother nor Claudia could find somebody else on short notice to keep me, it was decided that I would a
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