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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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168200
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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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168220
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She dips a toothpick in ink, running prick over paper, simply to prove herself wrong.
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168267
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Except where its waves break gently,/
white frothed and reassuring along the shore,
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168211
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He had a handsome dial tone, we called him every name but his.
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1682108
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Sunday morning beginning with a bang. Accused, found wanting, sentenced.
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168231
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On the news they said that there was a baby born in a stable. There are rumours that he may be the son of God but initial reports are unconfirmed.
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1682910
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For instance, my sister's husband. If I say brown socks, yellow boxer shorts, fishnet undershirt. If I say plastic bag and two tepid beers. And a voice that glides to falsetto when he: you're a tad too obscene for my taste, Julia, while he tries to light the filter end of…
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168244
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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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168112
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["GET UP, GET GET, GET DOWN ... 9-11'S A JOKE IN *your* TOWN!"]
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168100
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It was like Azure was dictating the tempo of a song. Fluid in motion, and a story told.
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168111
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Barbie wore only her clear pink heels...
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168100
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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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168165
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Ivan was used to explosions, but this was high in the sky. He was on his back between tall sunflowers that grew infinitely in all directions. The blast made the flowers bow their heads. Bits of debris fell from the blue sky, some shiny, trailing fire or smoke. The boy…
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168131
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"I have a prehensile tongue," he said matter-of-factly. "I know how to make you feel good." Such confidence, I say. Prove it.We're sitting on the couch, watching a movie, but not paying attention to it. We sit side-by-side, my leaning into him, and his arm is around me,…
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168189
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Mr. Blumberg and I sat side by side on a small couch in the family room. He was watching a football game on TV.
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16811210
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My little friend is no bigger than a minute. An even five feet tall, if that.
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16811410
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Microscopic purposes emerged//
with their combinations and permutations
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168154
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...listening to the ache of errs our mouths had become.
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168111
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Brian had spent the morning filling out applications all over Knox County, and by noon he was more than ready to call it a day. But apparently there was one last squirt of virtue in him, because heading home he saw a Help…
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168140
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A short triangular plastic shovels into the/White plastic container filled with topaz crystal-like/Salt granulars. Scratchy sandy sounds echo.
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168185
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collars of obedience /
discarded in the pyre /
with draft cards and bras
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168177
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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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168055
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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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16801212
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Not only half-full/
but stress-fractured
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168091
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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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1680179
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Shakespeare had red hair / Van Gogh never painted a nude
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168000
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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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168087
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The first thing I saw was a sandal, but it didn't exactly look priestly. It was golden and glowing, and the foot it was strapped to had red painted nails. The straps wrapped around her ankles, and up her slender leg, tied off in a bow below the knee.
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1680158
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I paid the doctor / You paid the doctor
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