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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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142021
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Thirty years later – and all the years in between – Alan Walton would remember how insidious it was, the anger that started that night with Quinton Harris, fifteen years old and the undisputed leader of the troop, and spread like a virus to the other boys
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142022
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142032
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it felt fucking awesome at that moment, in that way only little things can feel huge and life affirming
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142021
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Forgetting her inhibitions, she dove for him.
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142086
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You left for the glittery wild of West Hollywood. I guess L.A.'s off-limits now. My heart goes fucking tachy when I drive over Kellogg Hill past Forest Lawn and see the skyline glowing through the rainbow haze of sunset. You're out there, out in the…
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142076
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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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142074
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Once again there's too much to handle and
no space to process
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142071
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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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142077
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I can barely pick out the numbers on the houses
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1420108
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142030
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142031
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Nothing is ever hoarded in our house, everything is eaten.
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142053
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Most times a vertical word balloon floats before him.
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142042
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You want to get laid talking socks
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1420120
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Jody wakes some days with pieces missing.
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142061
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When the sex that is new and promising in its awkward moments is over, you turn to him. You expect that he’s figuring out a way to leave; the parts of you that know wait for him to stand up and put his clothes back on, quicker and with more eagerness than
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142022
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When you're scared to write badly, that's when you write. You are probably trying to tell the truth.
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142030
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1419127
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This liberated you/
to grind me hard/
on the dance floor
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141933
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I said, “If this rose doesn't grow another petal in twenty minutes, I'm burning down the neighborhood.” “Just let it go,” said Paul. “No,” I said. “That's what's happening right here.” “You'll try again next…
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141932
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1419148
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Six months later, she was teaching theology / to refugees from est.
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141932
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I turned a maiden to a witch / and back again
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141965
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Ivan was used to explosions, but this was high in the sky. He was on his back between tall sunflowers that grew infinitely in all directions. The blast made the flowers bow their heads. Bits of debris fell from the blue sky, some shiny, trailing fire or smoke. The boy…
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141954
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The Zone is a garden of skyscrapers. Every building is a model.
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141956
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Wearing Land’s End clothes at life’s end
Driving around in circles in your Codgermobile
with 3 good hubcaps.
Who wouldn’t want to steal that?
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141986
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He fell through her scalp-crust
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141943
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Until the ivy hides me in
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141953
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Buyers of freelance writing have a well-deserved reputation for responding slowly, thereby increasing your pleasure in much the same way that the Pointer Sisters longed for a slow hand.
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