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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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16671710
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Another new spring and the leaves
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Tender bodies sizzle on the grill.
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The next day I can’t recall at all, a waste, like the flash of twenty years of my life, faces that pass you like comets in some erogenous unnamed zone of night, but they got me in some isolation room with my wrists in leather restraints.
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166721
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Winter makes me reconsider.
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166754
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Dear Conrad,
If you cannot control your dog’s barking I’ll rig up a loud speaker facing the general direction of your house, and every time your mutt starts howling at the moon, I’ll start playing “It’s a Small World (After All)” at top volume on the p
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166700
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Takashi and Hideki stared at the pool of grey Mana. A scientist carefully contained some of the mist into a container.
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166721
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Looming ahead was another polite suburban party at which, after a couple of pops, I'd say something that embarrasses my wife in front of her girlfriends. Or so she claims.
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166720
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With a roar and short burst of flame, the dragon awoke, startled.
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166740
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When I heard that my brother was going to get married, I was more surprised than anything, but also awed by his courage. Our sister, named Baah Baah during a particularly bad recreational substance binge by our fun-loving, aristocratic parents, Nancy and
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166796
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The old lady from next door had been really quiet for the last few days.
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166733
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ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF ROBOTS!
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I hold them to the light...
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166720
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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166711
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There is no cement stronger than the one holding a miserable couple together.
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Its intelligence won’t be/
diminished when you take/
a bone saw to its cranium
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166722
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November 24th-- Subject began to chew the flesh of his forearms. Researchers considered interfering but decided against it because subject was only bleeding slightly.
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unwrapping
the gauze from her wrists....
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166700
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We knew this year would be different because we bought bikinis. We had never worn bikinis before. Our swimsuits had always been shiny one-pieces with stripes, or polka dots, or tiny yellow fish. Not this year. It was a hot summer and the department store was overly …
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It's good enough. Spacious. Then the cards but I am not for cards. Sasha directs the people, helping them, at ease and happy even. Strangers that have found a common denominator in games. A brotherhood and sisterhood I can't understand. I watch. I see green…
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1667168
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But his muscles fluttered and off he flew
leaving the stink of barnyard on the sheets.
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166644
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The man wore a bowler hat and stood on an open patch of grass, with a pyramid-shaped stack of baseballs at his feet.
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166610
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She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?
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166673
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I did do one nice thing for you
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166663
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N-n-never screamscold a cat.
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166610
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It was the middle of May when I found out my teacher was screwing my mother.
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166642
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The following is a true story, or rather it is a true experience from the story of my life. Some say that just because something happens doesn’t really make it “true”.
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166652
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Roy Carver owned a big tire retreading outfit over on the Mississippi.
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166600
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... and photos of friends from former lives: the Wolfman; Drac; the Mummy; my ungrateful Son; even my gold-digging, coat-tailer ex-wife.
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We cannot love the past...
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