3075 25 21
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“Your sister is a slut,” said Ma to me over supper.
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3074 22 21
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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.
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3074 4 1
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Black Panther Founder Bobby Seale has come to Yellow Springs, Ohio—a leafy village east of Dayton-- to carry his message of "the continuing human liberation struggle" to the 2002 graduating class of Antioch College.
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3073 38 20
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One dinner party, two couples, three bottles of wine.
A moonbeam shone on the balcony. They felt a slight shifting under their chairs and heard a quiet scraping sound, then the apartment slid out from the building and lifted away.
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3073 35 25
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Their mother never teaches them to wipe front to back or to brush their teeth before bed.
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3071 15 6
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I had told myself that I would not cry. That I would hold on to my anger so tightly, there would be no space for pity.
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3071 10 1
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--New Patient: Pearl, 48, 15:00 PM
Pearl is not her real name. Her real name is Stella. Pearl used a fake name to get past the intake screeners. Pearl is my ex-wife.
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3069 26 22
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This test should not be a riddle, it's a simple yes/no. The answer should settle curiosity with an image. One line or two, plus or minus. I say something like this, and the customer service rep asks me to hold.Thing is, I know the answer. I'm moody. My breasts feel like…
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3069 40 20
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They lie down in the prairie grass and clutch each other, imagine dying under fat clouds.
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3065 36 24
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Dexter is a demon. He called me an over-accessorized hot spot yesterday evening and FYI: he didn’t even kiss me. I slammed the door and left my own apartment. I slept in my car.
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3064 6 2
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The stainless steel tiles are cool upon the soles of her feet. Attendants have arranged all of her equipment, both digital and mechanical, including ink and needles. An overhead screen snaps into view, and his young muscled body is revealed.
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3064 40 27
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And in the end, when there was nothing left and we all had come to look like whispers, we ate the sun.
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3062 62 19
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Should I have shooed the cats from my bed? Shaken awake the silky tangle of feline true love curled at my feet? Shut their bedroom door against them? Perhaps, maybe, I don’t know.
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3061 2 0
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Roger's assigned route had him picking up medical waste at most of the plastic surgery offices in town. He smelled it on his skin by the end of the day. The plastic surgery places were less of a hassle than the hospital and worlds away from the free c
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3059 9 10
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"This story isn’t about you, even if it seems as though it is."
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3055 30 15
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We met because I hate the actor Bruce Willis.
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3054 2 2
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Tonight is our last night to dream.
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3054 19 11
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Nobody has been able to use the washer and dryer for over a month now. Our neighbors have gone laundry crazy. They've become suds-a-holics. They wash everything. If it isn't nailed down, they wash it. Outboard engines, peculiar feelings, dominatrix boots, metaphors,…
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3053 20 15
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I tell my friend, the animal lover, not to get too near the panther's cage. "Why not?" she asks. "You'll see," I say.
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3052 2 2
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A solitary snake, his belly full, stretched out in the sun. His uncoiling swept sand and small rocks to the left and right. Ah, he thought, I have the power to move mountains from my path. See how the lowly earth makes way for my comfort.
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3050 39 26
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I lie here sleepless and wait for the moment when I will touch...
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3048 14 8
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Just stay at home woman, and do your job /
wash those dishes, mama, its what I pays you for
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3047 3 1
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“She’s in shock,” I heard my mom say, so I assume Jill must have asked how I was or why I wasn’t crying. I did not want to talk to anyone or have anyone talk about me, so I just watched the trees go by as we drove back home.
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I thought of driving over there across town, steering with buttered hands.
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3046 60 16
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I didn't really know her. Yet, to me, she and her friends epitomized the local hip scene.
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3041 3 2
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"...leafing through the
SEBRING 100 WALLAMATIC
record selector..."
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3039 5 2
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He had been the innocent stooge for a young girl's selfish dreams. He vowed to be more careful. He would rather be lonely, if need be, than compromise himself with girls like that.
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She slouched on one hip, scribbled on the order pad. “How do you like your eggs?”
“I like them very much.”
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"Did you see that?!" exclaimed Judy jerking suddenly from her weathered Adirondack chair.
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sorry I didn't inform you
(missing cap)
about my trip to Spain,
(comma splice)
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