1659 6 7
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Except where its waves break gently,/
white frothed and reassuring along the shore,
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165975
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The Devil and the Holy Ghost played Euchre on Friday nights. The Devil drank rock and rye and the Holy Ghost went for Miller Lite. What just irks hell out of me, pardon my French, the Ghost began, is that nobody knows who the fuck I am.
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165900
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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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1659128
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165962
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Chubby. Plump. Pudgy. Portly. Bulky. Buxom. Rotund. Ample. Hefty. Corpulent. Zaftig.
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165891
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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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165800
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Everybody knew Billy Miller. He had messy hair and crooked teeth that he hid behind a thin-lipped smile. He and his friend Jimmy Rodgers, who everyone called Cock on account of his red hair that stuck up like a comb, were inseparable. They liked to ste
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1658106
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She is face down in the snow
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1658158
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Susan said since her divorce three years ago there have been too many Jacks in her life. Seven, if she counted that older guy. She knew that now. Too many. It was the name and little else that drew her to men. She told me the name alone was like Pavlov's bell. It…
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165863
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someone left graffiti on the billboard
over: "God's a hard
act to follow"; the one that made the news
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165800
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Jumping from roof to roof, Keiko and Rumiko remained quiet after hearing Mayumi’s story. They saw the shrine ahead but they knew they were going to run out of buildings to stay above.
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165813
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After he got on one knee, and she said, I do. After they watched the televised bombs disappear the city. After everyone fell asleep. After shock and awe, him and her making love…
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165896
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I tell myself I should have known. You were always absence.
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165800
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Tadd Dameron once described himself as “the most misplaced musician in the business,” and one needn’t call the missing persons bureau to determine that he may have been right.
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165800
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THE LAST THING I WANTED, expected, or needed was to be standing in the doorway of Carly Ray's room, watching her clutch a picture of her father, my old friend Beryl, up to her face. She is so tiny, but at the same time there is something very adult about the way she looks.…
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165833
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A small bar of glycerin soap floated in the sink full of bloody water . . .
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165831
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My mind raced at the endless possibilities one could die while driving to get a pizza.
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165800
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Ever since they switched from paper scripts to the little rubber balls branded with code I have been inundated with sickness.
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165856
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IN nature, it's hard to find a straight line. Stand on a beach. Look out to sea. There out far you might think you see a line where the sky comes down to join. Where two fields of blue meet. But where you're not quite sure for the line is a blur there. You…
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165877
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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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16572014
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I become the accumulation/
of appetites
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165763
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It was only a dream. No one died, nor were they even harmed. So horrifying!
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165776
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Regime is elected officials ignoring constituents, ignoring protestors, ignoring history
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1657148
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His wife had just come from the gynecologist and was toying with her French fries.
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165762
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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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16571414
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I realize the kid is still smoking. Shocked, I tear the cigarette from his mouth, throw it to the earth, and grind it to death with the heel of my boot.
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165720
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She dips a toothpick in ink, running prick over paper, simply to prove herself wrong.
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1657127
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1657117
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I saw it coming from five feet
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165711
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“We know you’re in there, motherfucker. Step out, slowly, and we might keep you fit for an open casket funeral."
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