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N-n-never screamscold a cat.
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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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It was only a dream. No one died, nor were they even harmed. So horrifying!
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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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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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Each day, they trot the coiffed/
and painted cadavers across the stage.
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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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Billie Holiday and I want a cup of coffee and they tell us to go fuck ourselves.
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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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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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Today I'm feeling fertilized by an egg—
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He had a handsome dial tone, we called him every name but his.
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skin cancer
walks along Zuma beach
at noon
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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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As spilled on a sandy Corona del Mar beach/both in moonlight and starlight so lovely/and strangely sad as if receding still
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I wonder how many crumbs
he can drop to make a cookie,
whole, so I can relax a little
and throw out the self help books
about how I'm not right in
the motherfucking head,
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The next week, she sends a small white box in the mail / with tissue paper, a ceramic mold the color of bleached bone—
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We are/no more than heartbeats on repeat.
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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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Regime is elected officials ignoring constituents, ignoring protestors, ignoring history
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The waves assisted in pushing him forward, until he reached the dry sand. He saw a small resort town ahead. The lights were out in the businesses and homes.
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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 instant you remember
gratitude
with enough focus to spring free its power...
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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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—Frank, how is your sex life?
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In traffic I cry bloody murder, but my bloodlust subsides once I'm in Valhalla. Chip Whitehead wants to see me on the 22nd floor before I start my shift. Charlie and the other suits have been looking at me funny since I sent Chip a memo suggesting the recession…
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there should be a word for it.
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I can't take it bird by bird because I have neither.
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