1537 7 5
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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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1536111
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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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153631
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I’ve got a full day ahead of me; I have to write a brief in Lipshutz v. Fredbird, a property damage claim against the St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot for breaking a fan’s glasses as part of his routine.
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153611
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It was two days to town. His horse could only go one.
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15362112
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He would not take Prozac and talked Jesus to her as if from a bucket.
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153621
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the little crummy salon that churned out little fat women with pinked curly hair
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153622
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Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.
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153698
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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"
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153632
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She flew through the air, linen skirt billowing around her. Below, her buckled bicycle was taking a different route. Less aerodynamic than she, its trajectory was brief, crashing into the ditch. Elspeth kept on flying. Time slowed, and expanded
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153620
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You held my hand when I hit the ground and told me the shakes would start soon.
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15361110
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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.
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153622
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The next day we were sitting at that same outdoor café on the square, trying to savor a peaceful meal of duck plucked fresh from the Vltava River, when the very same waiter passed by and said, “Bet you wish you had some peeg now, no?” There were camer
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1536104
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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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153655
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153675
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TV and power cord valorized in dust,/
wires and digital guts unimpaired, I’d guess . . .
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153631
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The man had decided that this was going to be his last day. He’d find out one final thing and he’d be done. He had spent the last few years of his life unwinding things that had been wound and untying knots that had been tied.
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153621
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A person is entitled to what she thinks and feels. A person can have all the thoughts and feelings she wants.
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153664
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"You'll be alright! Just pinch your nose!"
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153631
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My mind raced at the endless possibilities one could die while driving to get a pizza.
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153622
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Suppose Eve, strolling through the sunlit Garden, had not stumbled on that particular Tree at all, the wily serpent twined in its lower branches?
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153662
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A year ago, my neighbor was a sexy graduate student in fashion design, sounds perhaps shabby, yet if it is, then we in the Middle West are all shabby. That girl's father graduated from high school with Bob Dylan in Hibbing, not entitling her to a child.
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153686
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...the scream and the face...
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153631
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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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153544
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The man wore a bowler hat and stood on an open patch of grass, with a pyramid-shaped stack of baseballs at his feet.
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153521
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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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153500
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The restaurant was not open yet, but Ayane stood behind the counter preparing tea for everyone. She was quiet as she saw Hideki and Mayumi alone in a booth talking.
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153532
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I turned a maiden to a witch / and back again
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153576
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Marie was on the roof. The deck, with its cool concrete pavers and faded cedar Adirondack chairs, was one of the reasons she and Harold had bought their condo in this building. The only ugly part of the roof was the chain-link fence along its edge; soon after they moved…
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153520
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This was just noise now – pure, raw noise, grabbed from their throats and flung high by some sharp claws of violence buried in their breasts. Even from his third floor apartment, they sounded like they were right outside his window now. It was if they h
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153543
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You think about the first time you saw an axe
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