1621 6 5
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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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162121
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The man was happy, filled with it, the happiest he had ever been. He was so happy that he felt he did not deserve it and he deflated.
A woman with apples for shoulders and an eep for a laugh told him that he did deserve to be happy and the man thought
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162165
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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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162143
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Here’s the keys to the house
Here’s the keys to the car
I’m going out and I don’t care
I’m going out to buy a cigar
Don’t bother locking up after I leave
I’m not coming back anymore
I’m going to drink whiskey out of a jar
Go out and buy
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162133
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his mother brought him to me/ when he was very young/ maybe a few months old,/ born in arizona july.
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162144
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unwrapping
the gauze from her wrists....
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162112
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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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162100
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This is the most frustrating kind of amnesia.
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162166
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You might want to think twice before inviting Henry David Thoreau to your next dinner party...
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162165
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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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162174
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They were
obviously having
some secret
beach affair.
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162000
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I smoked my cigarro under his watchful eye. We were never able to make too much conversation even when I was teaching him at Educenter. Now that David had opened his own school, Evert had come to learn with him because it was much more affordable, but he
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162051
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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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162000
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The moon hung in the sky, round and pale, under cover of some wispy clouds.
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162021
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my maddening pyromaniac,/ you're burning up my heart/ so open up your broad-toothed mouth/ and let me pour the ashes in.
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162000
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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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1620105
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salmon sits gentler on my palate
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162071
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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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162094
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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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1620107
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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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1620114
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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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16201312
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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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162000
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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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162034
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What I Love About HistoryMy roommate, Cara, wears all black, which she thinks scares me. I've never bothered to tell her I wore all black for two years, eighth and ninth grade, and I'm just over it, not that I think she's lame or passé, but there's nothing remotely…
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162065
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Q: What's the best song to sing to your doc before cataract surgery?
A: I Only Have Eyes For You
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162000
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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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16191410
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The knees remind you: you are old,/
and broken, and unlikely to improve
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161952
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“I would like to keep my head, at least for a few more nights. Didn't you say we were gonna have sex one of these days? Isn't that in the manual?”
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161921
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The leaves were meaningless because they were no longer connected to the trees.
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161943
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We all need a place to stay.
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