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The phone rings. The oven beeps./
The locomotive whistles and howls.
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1530104
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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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153000
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One minute Rudy was sitting up close to me, asking me how could Geppetto make a little boy out of a piece of wood, and the next, Steve was pounding up the stairs, yelling, "Carla, get blankets, warm clothes; we're leaving, we won't be back."
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153064
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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror
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1530117
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He flipped through a book of poems Ani’d given me. Nothing fell out so he tore it in two. I said his mama must notta read to this one and one of the older cops laughed and he hit me.
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153085
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We will collapse in a storm of images
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153086
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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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153000
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"Oh — what is this 'work' thing the philosophers speak of" sort of thing.
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152921
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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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15291210
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152942
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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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152932
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I turned a maiden to a witch / and back again
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152998
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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"
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152921
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On the other pillow is a ladybird which escaped from a dream. It reminds me of when I was a tiny red polka dot. And then bigger, and other colours. And then… I stare at the ceiling, searching its soul for little things. The ladybird touches my arm, whispers…
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152932
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When we arriveand are met by strange friendsstrange like the fog on the redreed mudflatsthat span the low tide around Incheon -When we arrivecarrying so much we will not needlike the bus they hire to take us through the darksix people to fill so much more space - When…
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152943
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You think about the first time you saw an axe
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152900
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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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15291110
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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.
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1529108
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1529109
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Margaret will take her seven away from his raging Irish hammers slurry Saturday night honks smashing red eyes. They'll board a secret train countryside bound where they sing the songs of her own dead Mam who lived poor in the world but…
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152900
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Megumi paused for a moment, understanding Mrs. Akamatsu’s concern, but looking back at the Society, she shook her head in rejection.
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152942
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The following is a true story, or rather it is a true experience from the story of my life. Some say that just because something happens doesn’t really make it “true”.
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152942
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You want to get laid talking socks
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1529140
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“I was just dreaming about you,” he said, sleepy-voiced. “What's for breakfast?”
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152911
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I have hired a relationship consultant. He helps me through conversations with my wife.
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152941
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On our back porch, the tiki torches are lit and so am I.
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152931
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I am calling to tell you what’s going to happen tomorrow.
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15282112
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He would not take Prozac and talked Jesus to her as if from a bucket.
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152841
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At a rest stop in Montpelier, they stopped to buy Cokes and gum from the vending machines. He was showing off, trying to jimmy one of the locks with a safety pin but it stayed locked and she laughed at him and he said goddamn, look at all a them Milkyways
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152800
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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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