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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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1559128
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Trigger warning: casualties of war.
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155933
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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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155910
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[WARNING: DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 'R XMAS!]
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155977
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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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155811
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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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155854
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“Sixty-seven responses!” Al Edelstein announces at the first meeting of the search committee. It has been just two weeks since Rabbi Feldman dropped dead of a heart attack and just a week since the congregation ran the ad: “Help Wanted: Orthodox Rabbi. Im
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155833
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I can't take it bird by bird because I have neither.
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1558108
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I bit her ear and /
it was burnt toast
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155821
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The next week, she sends a small white box in the mail / with tissue paper, a ceramic mold the color of bleached bone—
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155886
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Mrs. L. was sitting on a love seat in her nightgown. She was sitting in a man’s lap....
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155820
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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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1558148
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His wife had just come from the gynecologist and was toying with her French fries.
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155821
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The Mojave Desert remembers Ron Paul
With tattered billboards
Scraped and clawed by vehement dust
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155853
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155863
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—Frank, how is your sex life?
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1558107
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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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155852
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I’ve just moved to New York City and, somehow, Scarlett Johansson is at the same party I’m at.
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155711
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"Shit," said the Charge Nurse. "Not again."
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1557169
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Have you ever spent twilight in a old pasture?
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1557116
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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155742
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Charles the Bold is holding a pen.
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155744
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unwrapping
the gauze from her wrists....
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155765
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155795
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The instant you remember
gratitude
with enough focus to spring free its power...
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155741
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We cannot love the past...
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155655
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There was a certain romanticism in it, the salty old man sidling up to me at a bar, rhapsodizing in a slurred stream of conscious about the state of the world, the country, the state of his own heart. He didn't have an eye patch nor beard, nor was he…
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155633
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Her funeral was scheduled for the following Monday, and of course Claudia would attend. Trouble was, Monday was a workday for my parents. So when neither Mother nor Claudia could find somebody else on short notice to keep me, it was decided that I would a
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155654
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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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1556126
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My ChurchThe white dressThe bridesmaidsThe friends, the familySadnessMy church knewno music
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