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I weighted her so she would be suspended in the water. Sometimes late at night I would go down to the edge and listen to her bump against the filtration system. The sound she made was soft and low like a strange drum.
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sorry I didn't inform you
(missing cap)
about my trip to Spain,
(comma splice)
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27942520
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The diagnosis was peculiar, the doctors agreed, / but so was the condition
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279011
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"Her actions in the city seemed invariably designed to destroy that person, which she’d worked so hard all her life to become."
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2787137
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Now Carver Smithton has a paunched belly as stout as the beer that fills it. His upper lip is thick, fat and flat like a caterpillar run over by a semi on Highway 17.
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278762
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The first time we fucked my face was squashed between a seatbelt buckle and the right-side door.
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It's so nice
to be under something else's power
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She slouched on one hip, scribbled on the order pad. “How do you like your eggs?”
“I like them very much.”
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And in the end, when there was nothing left and we all had come to look like whispers, we ate the sun.
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27792621
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They didn’t run out of each other’s ink.
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27793616
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I looked at it awhile waiting for it to cool. She said, "Ahh, go on! - Go on, go on.”
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2779309
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277821
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You find a wall to lie down against and focus your eyes on an orange light. You no longer hear any music. You are lying down at the bottom of a dark, green, filthy pool, holding your breath and looking up at the sun.
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27742615
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wear that short skirt and those high-heeled boots
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27742921
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Why was it so difficult to move / toward anything?
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2773227
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The first thing she remembers is sunshine, then her own dawning, and feeling the lumps on her head and bruises on her face and pain in her heart and aloness of her soul.
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27726634
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Co-workers come in to pee or brush their teeth and the pump squeaks and from the stall, Ling says sorry…I'm sorry.
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277076
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Many of you may think I can't talk but I do, excessively so and all jaws. I wonder if that's the reason I get burnt sometimes. And yes, I too have a life, hear me.I was born on a rainy day somewhere in Asia, when a stranger bought me on the antique Bird & Flower Market…
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277086
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I looked around the room at the shit, the dog bed, the dish. Lights burst behind my eyes, knees weak. “Fuck…” I bent over and puked.
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277022
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Planned developments have garages in the back, hasty retreat and advance protected by the Genie Automatic, come and go and go and come, waving is optional.
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276886
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Do I have grounds for inadequacy?
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27683314
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"My, aren't you queery looking? She says.
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2767137
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As soon as I pull into my father's driveway, a light goes on inside the condo. I don't have to wonder what he's doing up this time of the morning; he's always had a knack for knowing…
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27671711
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When the whistle drops, do not take any guff.
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276631
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“She’s in shock,” I heard my mom say, so I assume Jill must have asked how I was or why I wasn’t crying. I did not want to talk to anyone or have anyone talk about me, so I just watched the trees go by as we drove back home.
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At the time, we only knew that our guest had been lying on the carpet long enough for the coffee spilled on him to have coagulated and almost completely dried, and for the French Vanilla to achieve the consistency of glue. Or, at least, a thicker glue.
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2765227
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“Sorry, I farted,” Ted says after the nurse leaves. He squeezes my hand like he’s telling me grave news.
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He'll tell you if you listen long enough the words run together like the teeth of a zipper.
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...He steps back from the abyss,
inner eye envisioning the ink sip of a fountain pen,
the hard, hot brain frenzy that sends phrases marching
toward another bridge between oblivion and art.
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