1602 9 5
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A spire
that had stood one hundred and forty years
fell in
a single second of the blackest day.
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1602109
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...when they decided to teach her a lesson, it was with particular vigor and vitriol...
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160221
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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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160267
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1. Weeds of the World (Unite!) We invade the invaders and they invade us, these little Blooming weeds. They raise five flowers and let them blow Into the winds like sheets of stars. All of us Steer by their turning tide. All of us will eventually …
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160254
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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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1602116
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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160211
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Her mother sighed, fingering the faux-pearls around her neck. Barbara's neck tensed, almost as though the hair on the back of it would stand up: Here comes a platitude . . .
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160200
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Crack open the roof-- raise the battery on a platform with chains
up into the lightning
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160211
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There is no cement stronger than the one holding a miserable couple together.
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160201
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I followed the curve of the etched Koi, its filigree scales arcing across a taut midriff toward the indent of her pierced navel, where a collection of water lilies drifted on the surface of her skin.
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16021817
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They meant no harm when they flooded farms in its swirls and eddies
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160231
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On the news they said that there was a baby born in a stable. There are rumours that he may be the son of God but initial reports are unconfirmed.
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160231
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Your favorite nickname
existed only in the bright red
cherry smoldering
at the end of your smoke.
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1601215
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I didn’t give her enough skin. The world will always hurt her.
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160132
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"Why, before the summer has passed
You won’t remember her name. . ."
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160140
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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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160164
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When he smashed his plate in my lap, the dog hung around, licking my wrist and hoping that he would get some milk, too. With my luck, he'd jump in the pool, getting grass clippings all over the edge. My nails were sharp that day, I had to cut them, and I did while…
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160133
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ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF ROBOTS!
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160100
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The bullet split her head in half before she could finish her sentence. Her blood sprayed out onto my face and covered my lips. The taste of life as it suddenly ended.
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160122
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Beautiful boy! I am doomed / to have attended your presence; / time consumes us, but you / have changed so little...
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160198
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On my twenty-second birthday, in the spring of 1979, I had a crawfish boil, my first. Ninety pounds of red mudbugs on a picnic table spread with newspaper, my birthday cake sitting at the end of the table like an afterthought.I hadn't…
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160176
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I keep attempting to start a correspondence with people / but they end up not being interested in me, / either that or I scare them away / because I usually begin with: / “Well, my favorite philosopher is Hegel..."
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160153
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Rose lifted her 55-year-old legs until they were perpendicular to the bed and admired how girlish they looked. It gave her the sexy legs of a 20-year old, if the morning light was right and she squinted a bit.
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160110
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Three teeth. You can pick them out if you hit pause just right. Probably not a person in the entire valley who hasn’t seen that video from the Eastern Cheerleading Finals. They even showed the tape on the eleven o’clock news in Scranton, my face ci
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160142
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Our dinner was over and we regretfully had to leave the restaurant. She leaves with enough shopping money for a few weeks. He, getting the rough end of the deal, has charged more money to his credit card at 19% plus cash withdrawal fees. So I ask myself
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160100
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Part of me feels like a wounded animal surrounded by hungry cougars. Another part of me feels like being mauled by a cougar might not be that bad. A third part of me wishes he could punch the second part of me in the face.
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160186
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If I seemed disappointed after our conversation,
then, for the record, that was never the case.
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160021
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The supervisor, sensing the fear in me, pats my hand and says "Never you mind! This is normal in the tomato. Every few days we rile up, make sauce, and regrow again. Have you ever been in spaghetti sauce before?"
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160054
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The war they wage fills everything with holes.
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160021
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Forgetting her inhibitions, she dove for him.
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