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my mouth is open, ready to bite your tiny toes
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The war they wage fills everything with holes.
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it felt fucking awesome at that moment, in that way only little things can feel huge and life affirming
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Defy the impulse to grow beyond/
your means and the means of the/
place where you lie at night.
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The rocket shone in the distance. Cape Canaveral had never looked so pretty.
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Theresa Esposito woke to the smell of pignoli cookies baking. The sweet scent made her stomach rumble. She was ten-years-old today. And she felt ten. Her hair, her ears, her eyes, her toes — everything felt ten.
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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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There was an empty box on his facebook page asking to be filled in with, “What’s on your mind?” He thought. "Hair?"
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COLLEAGUES, ACQUAINTANCES SUSPECT MARK ZUCKERBERG IS A MASKED VIGILANTE
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It’s last call for the Class of 2001, their five-year reunion drawing to a close, and Brenner, in his standard t-shirt and holey jeans, has just arrived.
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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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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He was just walking along, making sure that no white, Hispanic, Native American or Asian people were doing anything illegal when he noticed the young black man walking down the street.
He hadn't meant to.
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On Martini Business Nights the rules of decorum were written by Esquire or Playboy.The red bar-side book divulges the secrets brewed with ice, libation and a sleek chrome shaker, because its all about the accoutrement, and technique. Mr Boston said that, NOT James Bond. If…
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Von Meckel had us all go out and paint this huge red square around the Red Diaper Baby factory. Then he held a big naming rally, at noon, during our lunch break. We weren’t allowed to eat our sandwiches. There was all this pomp and circumstance. We were
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Charles the Bold is holding a pen.
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She said, “I think I’m pregnant,” but I thought that the sidewalk looked cleaner than usual,
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Cat fight. I rush outside and swinging my trusty broom I charge the rolling yowling ball of black fur.
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In those years,
you and I were told to leap
for a world suffused with sound
and industry.
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They acquire him in a bar that is famous for its shipwrecks.
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Trigger warning: casualties of war.
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We cannot love the past...
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"Shit," said the Charge Nurse. "Not again."
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Have you ever spent twilight in a old pasture?
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I didn’t give her enough skin. The world will always hurt her.
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...That flash of horror as well as the lie that replaced it were mirrors of sorts and both told the truth.
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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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I dragged you that last half mile Me such a slip of a thing, one bite mark visible You the bear, your growl now only audible When you furred from kerb to road to kerb The December snow followed us Dragging Christmas red behind you As I ignored my…
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unwrapping
the gauze from her wrists....
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