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My twin sister Ilene has recently taken up with a man named “Darrell,” who is a member of the Shriner's Fun Korps, a motorized paramilitary group.
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155994
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The man's dog slipped away one night. He left soon after.
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155900
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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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155974
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I don’t know what to do with all this money flowing from my books.
It’s burning a hole in my literary pocket.
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155921
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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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155954
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I found the hand eight months ago, after I planned to grow a meadow of tiny yellow blossoms in my yard.
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155900
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Her shoes, left uninhibited below, seem sad but understanding, and she is so in love with something, which makes me so in love with the idea of her.
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155933
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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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155944
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I assume the shape of a pronoun.
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155954
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we gave divided houses / child stand up anyway
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155940
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The way each intersection in a city where you’ve lived a while becomes layered with personal archeology.
The cafe that replaced a liquor store you avoided, and the friend (or lover) you broke up with there,
and the way on the day of the big fire you
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155953
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155977
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A new philosophy stirs in its surgery.
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155900
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From Berlin to Arcturus. I squeeze Sevigny’s wrist, wish Izzy could be here, but she’s melting salt in Utah. We were on our way to Los Angeles. I’ve booked the horror room.
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155910
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[WARNING: DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 'R XMAS!]
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155975
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One day it was boring / to be alive.
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155832
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Remembering Ginsberg
who howled through just about everybody's idea of the real weirdo poet
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155821
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They were really big, a lot larger and taller and stronger than he was. Sometimes they were holding him, all of him, high up in the air. Sometimes they would have him crawl in front of them. Often they put him into some form of holding cell.
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155823
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The email landed in his inbox.He'd been staring at the empty screen for a while now even though, really, he hadn't been expecting anything to arrive, yet there it was.He sat and stared, not daring to click it. He knew he shouldn't have sent a mail in the first place. He…
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155810
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We're doomed as a species. The Zorks are coming to eat us. It all started when Joey Cacciatore, the dumbest crook in the history of the world, got Veetzers swarming like blowflies in 1972, and thereby ensured the upcoming…
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155800
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"You look awfully familiar," said one of the corrupt oil company execs to the dark-haired man with the sunglasses and big sideburns.
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155843
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We all need a place to stay.
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155865
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Santa’s stuck/you say? In the chimney of course./The lard-arsed ol’bastard struggling
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155821
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There is truth you can’t escape or say any other way and expect it still to be truth.
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155811
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I would open an eye, waiting for it to absorb the scant light in the room, and I would see her on the far edge of the bed, the topography of her hips now a battlement to keep me at bay.
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155821
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Ben was in no mood for games. His ribs hurt and his eye was painful. He would have to tell this girl, who had flicked her tongue in his ear and who did not sound like Sophie, to get lost
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155830
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The Snowman grinned malevolently as the Sugar Plum fairies shook in their tiny powdered boots."Santa has one more hour and then you're all marshmallow toasts!" the Snowman said. He laughed and he laughed. His evil plan? He wanted the key to time delivered to him personally…
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I wondered if Mr. Slane even knew/
how many dogs he owned
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I dreamt once
a child’s drawing of a house
all scribbly black crayon
swayback roof crooked
chimney. God, do you
remember how cold it was
that night?
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