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158365
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Say the world is a smudged charcoal drawing. Slit from its frame, smuggled out of the Vatican. Don't say it couldn't happen. Who would know.
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We became The World Famous Shadow Puppet Theater because we thought that the best way to become world famous was to act as though we already were.
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158276
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The note was a lie, multiplied through each member of its potential audience....
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158222
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my mouth is open, ready to bite your tiny toes
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158200
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A woman is fishing in the Seine at the far left
of the painting, while time is suspended and light
remains. One man plays a trumpet. A half dozen
people sit or walk under parasols. Couples stroll
and children run or sit or stand beside their
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Fat robins are chirping –
loudly – at 4 a.m.
They’re trying to delude
the worms into thinking it’s
dawn already
The worms get up underground
They’re grumpy, they
bump into things
They come up to the surface
and Wham! That
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With a roar and short burst of flame, the dragon awoke, startled.
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158211
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Zorro lived in his mother’s basement until he could get back on his feet.
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1582106
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Eight days before her 50th birthday they were married in their soft new pajamas, holding hands on his bed in the hospital. The pastor and witnesses wore protective hospital gowns and gloves; the patient was in isolation once again. A special dispensation from the head…
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158253
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I sat at the kitchen counter, aware of a heaviness, a numbness, in my flesh, my bones, my mind. My dancer's body -- short, trim and 108 pounds -- felt as huge and unmoving as the…
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158233
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The questions we ask ourselves define who we are as a culture. “What is the meaning of life?” “Is there a God?” “Does anybody really know what time it is?” “Where the hell did I put my car keys?” To see what…
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1582107
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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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158143
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It is within my nature, and many others I know, to cling to what’s consistent and certain: the battles fought in the war for survival and the organic camaraderie borne in the trenches. Sometimes the quest and the people we commiserate with along the way
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I enjoy launching words into space. Please dangle a moment here while I prepare the next sentence. Ok. You can come in now. Take boiling for instance. And hawsers. The sound of words on a sheet of paper. The manifesto for a roll of sleep. Sleep is oblivious to…
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158174
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The Judge waited for the perfect wave.
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He was losing his fight with
malaria, but you would never
know it from his dreams
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1581179
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Words darken with smut and irony over time.
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158085
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Snipers wear camouflage clothing to avoid being seen. It wouldn’t do for a sniper to be seen because then the sniper might become the snipee.
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158055
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beat them with fists and purses.
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1580169
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Have you ever spent twilight in a old pasture?
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158000
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The moon hung in the sky, round and pale, under cover of some wispy clouds.
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158063
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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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158000
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Mayumi and her friends arrived at the beach. The sun was near setting for the night, and a few stars began an early peek in the twilit sky.
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It was midnight. I was outside the cottage, digging another row of star-shaped holes for the shrubbery.
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158001
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As the four flew beside each other, they shared their stories and got to know one another. Soon they learned from the voice what was happening.
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His wife had just come from the gynecologist and was toying with her French fries.
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