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Today clouds were dancing on the moon
Moon had a fit but drew in a breath
And let out a sigh
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169791
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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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169776
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The note was a lie, multiplied through each member of its potential audience....
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169700
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“A shibboleth is a test—a way to separate da wheat from da chaff that's as old as the Bible, but as new as the latest trend in men's fashions,” Gus says.
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169742
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True facts about Redbeard the communist pirate.
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169762
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It was only two days before Christmas. Jonathan remembered his mother crying.
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169795
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I fully intend to show Hamilton the delights of soft Oriental carpeting and a delicious new position I learned not long ago. It involves a silk scarf, a leather strap and some aromatic herbs.
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169731
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He came to a spot on the edge of the strawberry fields where he liked to sit with his brother and watch the turkey buzzards circle overhead
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169755
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I got an email notification that your relationship status had changed to Single...
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169720
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One day when they were sitting on the curb together at 4th Street and Mendocino Avenue in Santa Rosa and Joe was calling out to passers by in a singsong voice, “Spare change for cigs,” she had persuaded them that they should try to join the circus.
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169766
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israeli flares light gaza/ casting incandescent nudity/ upon jumbled puzzle piece buildings.
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169755
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It is said that lovers find lips in the dark through secret brain circuitry.
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1697108
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The best thing about being a cowboy is the cows.
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169777
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"We're practicing," she signs, "for an earthquake."
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169700
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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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169752
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That contraption he’d invited her to pedal, somebody oughta market one of those. The closer you got the harder it got, and her feet kept slipping off the pedals. It was maddening.
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169761
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I was quite alone in this small room with the tarp and the dying fire.
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1697116
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The days cut off by damp chill with every thought a different variety of protection.
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169763
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—Frank, how is your sex life?
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169755
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there should be a word for it.
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169763
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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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169744
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I imagine diving into a vat of dried fruit, enjoying the unmistakable sweetness in each shriveled morsel, until I find myself biting into an undetected metal shard.
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169663
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"Eye contact is essential as it shows confidence. I walk with purpose and hope that my skirt isn’t too short. "
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169601
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I have cherished the memory of that meal since and have sought out Indian restaurants all over the world. San later told me that the best Indian food was to be had in London
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1696136
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It wasn't so much the softness of the bed that kept her from sleep, or the pungent bleach-scent of the unfamiliar sheets, but the lack of her clock's familiar tick, tick, tick. Or was it a missing heartbeat? Awake, she watched his chest. On the table, an empty pill …
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16961410
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Microscopic purposes emerged//
with their combinations and permutations
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169665
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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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169555
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Innocent victims know their tonsils. Or know the sound of their forceful removal. Their mangled beauty is the grain that has gracefully substituted all the limb-hacking. The creature used to have a friend whose gestures were very harmless, …
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169564
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His face was creased with sadness the first time in the room and he danced his tai chi like a young man half his age, and laughed, like headtrippers do, from the neck up.
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1695108
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After his chemotherapy failed, he went water skiing.
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