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Emi stood up and turned to Mayumi. She did not know what else to say. There was a sense of helplessness.
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152071
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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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15201911
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152000
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I'm a jogger of these parts, but I've yet to discover a dead body, or even dead body parts, or worse yet, discover that my parts will be discovered by some unfortunate jogger.
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152011
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Route 346 is the way Pop drove to Troy long after everybody else took Route 2. Today Charlie and I drive in the opposite direction. Back then, Pop drove us to Troy on Route 346 on Sunday afternoons with the car windows…
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152000
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Warranties are what made America great, although hers has expired and the mailbox will remain empty for another fifteen days.
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15201312
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My eyes hold my mother. It's not easy being human she tells me. She always told me. Sure, but the stories are lovely. We all know that. We generate the tales, tell the tales, kiss our children. Live on in their eyes, though, don't…
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152077
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152030
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Blend the dog a drink and sit down beside him and draw straws for regrets.
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1520140
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“I was just dreaming about you,” he said, sleepy-voiced. “What's for breakfast?”
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152075
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I am no different to her, living seven days ahead
of myself, looking forward to looking back,
as we Irish do so fondly
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152031
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I am calling to tell you what’s going to happen tomorrow.
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152031
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The blackout lasted longer than anyone thought. From my fifth story window, the whole city seemed to shut down. I heard noises above me. How could it be?
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15191212
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Not only half-full/
but stress-fractured
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1519111
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Eat me so I can sink in your mouth, my paper fraying along the sharp topography of your tongue, lodging in the holes where your teeth used to be. There, I will storm an infection until your mouth inks my words.
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1519104
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"Middle class workers and working class poor and the unemployed will soon be forming a revolutionary movement to break this stranglehold of corrupt elites."
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1519103
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Palms planted firmly against his temples, Travis paced the room like a caged animal. Giant black bats screeched in his brain, their pointy wings scraping at the edges of his cranium.
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151932
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Somniloquies rise like the drowned . . .
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151965
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Santa’s stuck/you say? In the chimney of course./The lard-arsed ol’bastard struggling
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151977
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To tell the truth, I can’t complain. Look, lots of people have it tough. I don’t have it tough...
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151921
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Father hands Billy a length of rope. Billy builds his resolve, fights back his tears, heads into the kitchen. It's time to become a man.
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151996
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I guess at the end you’re only
looking forward. Or upward actually,
since you can only lie there on your back
looking upward, straight ahead toward infinity,
your mouth in a grimace, with the ghostly
pink lips peeled back from the teeth.
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151996
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Erased. Like chalk across my body,
a fine powder of forgetfulness,
with a few swipes --- all those names
and faces, gone. The letters burned.
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151950
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The room smelled of an old rank basement. Boys and girls of all ages crowded the stage. The room was dark with only a few lights that hung from above keeping the crowd dark and silhouetting Chris on drums.
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151986
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Although I think we can easily work it out because we are not here in the Yale graduate school, and diction is the theme of the story. Diction is a choice in language.
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151986
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If I seemed disappointed after our conversation,
then, for the record, that was never the case.
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151821
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The elders of the town will tell you that as soon the prophet mill arrived everything went to Hell. Before the process was streamlined, prophets used to be grown organically in the community. They popped up only where the ground was tilled and a prayer was planted. They…
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15182112
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He would not take Prozac and talked Jesus to her as if from a bucket.
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151885
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It's all over now, Baby Blue...
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151842
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Anatoly Gringovitch was listening to the dress rehearsal of Hausenstockmann’s Constellations at Auditorium Rainier III in Monte Carlo.
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