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She allowed him to wash her hair. Touching it in a wet state, running his hands through it in a soapy state, wringing the water out when he was finished—he was ecstatic.
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159751
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He was choking on the fumes.
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159733
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Or, today, when early summer sweated the long pants off every woman under the age of thirty. Did I notice the way you looked at them for one, two, three seconds; then didn't, partial to short-shorts. It was sly how you kept them in your line of sight, alm
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159700
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THE LAST THING I WANTED, expected, or needed was to be standing in the doorway of Carly Ray's room, watching her clutch a picture of her father, my old friend Beryl, up to her face. She is so tiny, but at the same time there is something very adult about the way she looks.…
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159665
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His looks were polished like his shoes, his hair as black. No one would have guessed he made his living as a thief.
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159685
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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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159674
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They found it naught however as it was lost at metro stops, canceled appointments and in ever dimming light that failed to reflect what was instead of what could have been.
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159697
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159610
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It was the middle of May when I found out my teacher was screwing my mother.
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159600
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The artist leans back in his chair, smoking a cigarette
after lunch, looking away from the table toward the right
He is dressed in white, and he's practically stretched out
his entire length, to relax after rowing the boat all
morning. Sunlight
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159611
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Zorro lived in his mother’s basement until he could get back on his feet.
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15961312
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The service was a disaster. The Protestants bobbed up and down. They didn't know when to stand, when to sit. I
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159671
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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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"His middle name is Valentine, and when asked about it, he isn't sure why."
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159643
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The Rapture comes and goes unannounced in carbonated soda bubbles spicing the air.
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159611
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“We know you’re in there, motherfucker. Step out, slowly, and we might keep you fit for an open casket funeral."
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159600
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She didn’t think of herself as an undesirable, no, she didn’t, but did find herself cowering in face of the presumed judgment of those around her. They had more money, more clout, more everything.
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159576
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I read it all wrong. In writing her novel, I thought Marilynne Robinson was writing about twins — writing, in some way, about me. Instead, these characters, Lucille and Ruthie, were standard sisters, one older than the other. In fact, Robinson explains th
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Everybody called her The Crier because from time to time we would hear her crying.
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159511
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The night is very clear and unusually cold. We are so near to the star that its light banishes the darkness that tries futilely to extinguish it. A small village twinkles in the foothills to our east. The cry of a lost sheep cuts the night like a blade
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159500
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Since when has it become a crime to walk about a neighbourhood? No one will ever convince me that it 's okay to follow, harass, or approach any unarmed person with a gun and shoot them.
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1595114
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The flash of love was real, the life within her was real, and the main thing now was to climb.
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159544
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unwrapping
the gauze from her wrists....
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15951410
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Microscopic purposes emerged//
with their combinations and permutations
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159577
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A new philosophy stirs in its surgery.
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159565
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They acquire him in a bar that is famous for its shipwrecks.
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159594
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In this lab, where I work 40 hours a week,
live the ghosts of questions asked.
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159531
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“Let me in,” I begged.
“No. Get back stinky feet.”
“I washed them.”
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159511
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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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