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I saw it coming from five feet
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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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unwrapping
the gauze from her wrists....
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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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Bobby took one out and looked at the date. "July 1965. Does that mean anything to you, Ma? Carla, T.J.?" Bobby handed the paper to my mother. "Why don't you spread it out on the counter to see if you can find something that he might have wanted…
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The location : Vic's Seedy Space Bar. No, that's not just a description, that's the real name.
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I paid the doctor / You paid the doctor
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It was the middle of May when I found out my teacher was screwing my mother.
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If you work with the public, you're stressed. Unreasonable customers. Demanding bosses. Reduced staffing. I love my job, but the workload is tough and getting tougher. What can we do to keep our spirits up?Play Customer Appreciation! It's simple. Assign a point value…
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You should never have believed your daddy when he said a man with half a dog was better off than a man with no dog at all.
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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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Forty years later he was still her Romeo, she his Juliet.
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Out in the world again, pretending to belong.
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I break your flesh
and make music
on the harp of your bones.
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I wander toward the midnight dock
a neon sine curve stabs my eyes
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"Shit," said the Charge Nurse. "Not again."
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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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How long have you been waiting for me? How long?
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My ChurchThe white dressThe bridesmaidsThe friends, the familySadnessMy church knewno music
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There was a body in the backseat, and they drove through the highways at night to a late night radio show that played 80’s power ballads. He said: “I am really glad you’re here for me.”
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" I have no idea what's goin on out here, and I'm gonna find out one way or another."
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Things don't always go to plan. Gem knew what people would have said back then, of course. She wasn't stupid.
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This guy struts and never walks, and while doing so he reads and sends text messages and emails from his smart phone and so never walks in a straight line.
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Slipshod shoes were the first sign of a meltdown. Sometimes she could see it coming. A prickly gentleman washing his clothes on a Thursday afternoon. One week he’s fine. Nothing wrong with owning a sour face. The next Thursday, his shoes don’t match.
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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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Published in Exquisite CorpseI…
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the swarthy terror network
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