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169075
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The receipts all fell into the black leather valise he’d retrieved from storage that afternoon, except for the forty-eight cents, which wound up in the right front pocket of his jeans.
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169020
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She dips a toothpick in ink, running prick over paper, simply to prove herself wrong.
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169000
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He reached into the bag on the table and pulled out a ten inch record, sleeved in brown paper, with a circle cut out to display the label information. He handled it delicately, like a fresh egg.
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169077
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"We're practicing," she signs, "for an earthquake."
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16901410
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Microscopic purposes emerged//
with their combinations and permutations
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168900
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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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168933
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Trisha dreamed of being a Playboy Bunny since the days she still had buck-teeth and fried egg boobs. She blu-tacked page threes above her bed-head and had me snap topless Polaroids till they littered the floor. She told me to imagine she had 36DDs and per
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168932
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I cut myself. Often. The bloodslice like thin lips parted/in prayer.
life’s color drained to ashen/as the old world spins, pirouettes/like a circus dog on the back/of a galloping horse.
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168999
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True story, I swear to God.
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16891210
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My little friend is no bigger than a minute. An even five feet tall, if that.
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168921
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It was all things considered a particularly odd sight, which Annalise did not know how to handle.
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168940
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“Well, aren’t you the cutest thing?”
Shelly looked around for the source of the line and one of the better looking bar flies met her gaze. He wore a faded t-shirt with a swoosh graphic that read ‘Just Do Me‘. True to its mystical nature, her indefatigabl
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168970
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[TURN-ONS: willingness. TURN-OFFS: rejection.]
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168885
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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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168891
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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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168884
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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.
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168887
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You are an heiress to drunks.
The statues of your forefathers stagger,
memorialized by gravity, their faces
half-lit eternally, as they reach into refrigerators
for another something
to keep away the cold empty.
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168897
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in the much more terrorizing display/
of male pattern stupidity//
as seen so often on TV/
in the House and at Fox News.
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168821
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There is truth you can’t escape or say any other way and expect it still to be truth.
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168842
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How hard it is to pretend to be someone else. Alone, together, in the silence... I thought about how you must really like me to act quite like that. I wanted to hold your hand and read the unsent love letters.
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168882
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Running into the fire, the smoke and the chaos;
selfless first responders, innocent bystanders,
and dedicated runners
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16882114
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I don't believe in symbols
but there's a hole
in my living room window
in the shape of a bird
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1688117
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BECAUSE to fuck is an incidental REASON to be here
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168811
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The room turns red and I start screaming and ejaculating. The whole class is watching as Mr.Smith slams down my copy of the test with his right hand and swiftly tears off my penis with his left.
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168810
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Three teeth. You can pick them out if you hit pause just right. Probably not a person in the entire valley who hasn’t seen that video from the Eastern Cheerleading Finals. They even showed the tape on the eleven o’clock news in Scranton, my face ci
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168840
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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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168755
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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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168764
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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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Shakespeare had red hair / Van Gogh never painted a nude
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