1547 7 10
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From room to room, neither closet nor drawer contained any remnant of pleasant memory.
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15471411
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Tender bodies sizzle on the grill.
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154764
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My mother moved her things out of my parents’ bedroom into the attic guest room. When I asked where guests would sleep, my father said, “Matthew, don’t be an asshole.”
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15471210
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1547143
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Of all the authors in the library, it was a wife from Maryland who called out from her marriage dormer I was not to read her.
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154742
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True facts about Redbeard the communist pirate.
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154700
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Caster had always imagined the Consensus as a big room, as big as the world, filled with white space and people with quantum wings, flitting about, creating information. There were tinted bubbles for people to share for privacy, and the lights never went
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154720
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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154732
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“Life is on life’s terms,” she told me once. Her arm, wrapped in clear cellophane, was freshly adorned with a green-pigmented sand-dollar: a living shell.
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15471814
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The phone rings. The oven beeps./
The locomotive whistles and howls.
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154730
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Blend the dog a drink and sit down beside him and draw straws for regrets.
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1547157
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Mark Reep is a faded Polaroid oracle taped to the only unbroken window of an abandoned house in Ithaca NY.
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1546148
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an undercurrent of fear is running through my community
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1546104
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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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154687
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I supposed reluctantly that Princeton is soft as Macalester College is soft. A person could die just for having attended U.W.-Madison or Yale.
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154611
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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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15461110
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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.
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1546104
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feet that would run until their soles were pages of Gideon’s Bibles, worn too thin to touch
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154651
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Juan’s tío, Richard, who works for the city and is the kind of Mexican who thinks he isn’t, took care of the lawyer. Juan checks himself in the mirror, didn’t know how good dressing fancy would feel.
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154661
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I do not know what zinzins is, what a zinzins is, who zinzins is.
I do not want to know
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154565
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faith in gravity/permitted them to extol/the guillotine's blade.
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154584
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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.
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154552
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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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154532
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I could smell a bold combination of cheap perfume, stale smoke, and sex excreting from her weathered pores. The bus engine hummed as we climbed a winding road. She scratched her neck and tried to finger comb through her knotted hair. I caught a glimpse of
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154520
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Some people hate Waikiki. Not me. Most hotels had lounges with live music, either inside or around the pool. Evenings were spent bar hopping up and down the strip, Kalakaua Avenue. The bars stayed open till 4:00 a.m. It was safe to walk…
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154511
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Her cash. It smelled like seven-dollar-a-quart gardenia perfume and cave aged cheese—like hope overgrown with mildew.
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Just beyond the tree, beyond the fence, close to the grey clouds that hung almost to the earth, a boy sat on another tree's stump. Beneath his crossed legs that he moved up and down rhythmically, under his bright red, Superman shorts, inscribed in the stump, a symbol which…
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154565
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Remember when we went to New York to take our test? We looked for cheap hotels near the test site, and there was the "Hotel Earle." Twelve bucks a night. The clerk behind bullet-proof glass, smiling a knowing smile. Pubes still on the sheets, but we couldn't sleep anyway,…
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1545105
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addict for validation and cat tongues
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If I seemed disappointed after our conversation,
then, for the record, that was never the case.
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