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Because he tells her to, she puts on a vintage Easter dress one size too small and sprawls in a circle of light on the dusty floor...
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160071
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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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160070
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He came running out of his narrow little shop, Berthillon
and chased me down the Ilse St. Louis street, saying,
“Monsieur, Monsieur, nous avon pamplemousse!
It’s ici, Monsieur. Your pamplemousse.
They just come in this matin, morning
and I’
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160000
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Crack open the roof-- raise the battery on a platform with chains
up into the lightning
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1600118
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“The beginning was good. That’s what he likes. The moment when you’re driving in the open air and your hair is flying and your skirt is whipping up around your knees, and he’s smoking, of all things, and happy and looking at you."
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1600107
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We are young
That’s all we’ve got
We take drugs
We smoke pot
You got mugged
And I got shot
We are young
That’s all we’ve got
I want you to love me like it’s midnight
Midnight, midnight
Yeah, your mama wants you home
But she knows
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1600108
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hookers are better educated these days
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160065
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He refuses to answer his phone, preferring the safe medium of email or his answering machine. He only eats pre-cooked, pre-packaged food, only drinks bottled waters, sodas and juices. He has cable, but only watches late-night infomercials and shopping cha
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160041
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"His middle name is Valentine, and when asked about it, he isn't sure why."
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159920
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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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159900
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The sun was at the edge of the earth. The shadows around Ayane and her friends brought the creature closer.
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159922
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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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159900
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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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1599266
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Closed gate without fences
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159920
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A shadowless torpedo shaped form plummeted from the grey, overcast skies upon the many unsuspecting. No remote pilot thousands of miles away guided this particular descent.
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159965
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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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159943
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“106 more miles,” she said.
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1599116
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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159952
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When a multinational big box furniture store opened just off the expressway outside the city selling all the same products at greatly reduced prices, they contemplated the possibility of closing their store.
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159996
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159998
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It turned out Eel’s brain corrects for imbalance, and he can only feel danger for a moment or two.
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159964
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I pull into the parking lot and see a group of roosters squawking and trying to overturn an ‘87 Pontiac Bonneville that's caught fire. They're pouring whiskey down their throats. They're weeping over a bag of economy sized frozen breast fillets.
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159930
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…she smelled of sunflowers.
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159900
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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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15991312
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Forty years later he was still her Romeo, she his Juliet.
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159965
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They acquire him in a bar that is famous for its shipwrecks.
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159912
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What a beautiful day it was, what a wonderful day to lose one's mind. This is what you think going into it, that it is all a wonderful dream come true, and sure I'll have my hands full, but at the end of the day it will be worth something. If I hang in long enough,…
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159900
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Can you see the rut? Can you dig your fingers into the flesh?
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159885
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Today clouds were dancing on the moon
Moon had a fit but drew in a breath
And let out a sigh
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159864
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His face was creased with sadness the first time in the room and he danced his tai chi like a young man half his age, and laughed, like headtrippers do, from the neck up.
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