1403 5 2
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Roy Carver owned a big tire retreading outfit over on the Mississippi.
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140331
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Warning: Open and read before making any dumb-ass New Year's resolutions.
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140377
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The light on his face from a lamp,
felt hat with a black band scrunched down,
the light on his face as though thrown there,
the nose creating a strong shadow,
with dark, straight eyebrows under the hat,
red and orange beard.
Leaning forwar
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140354
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It was uncomfortable to realize people had agendas. That there could be invisible realities.
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140331
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I am calling to tell you what’s going to happen tomorrow.
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140321
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They could cram Rob inside the trunk and then drop him somewhere in the dingles.
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140222
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There's a large tunnel that runs under my house. I can only estimate but it's not deep below the ground and that's what worries me.
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140255
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The first time I saw Little Man was on a bright, hot afternoon near the end of November, when the trains had just pulled into the fair grounds and the familiar smell of upturned turf and sun-basked animals returned to Sarasota.
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140231
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There was a hole in my tooth. It wouldn't let anything go.
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140232
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In retrospect, we should have been a cult.
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140255
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They were everywhere walking right above us or so it seemed, back and forth, back and forth with their lousy, crunching heels making hollow chewed up noises that took all the sweet sounds left on earth and had them march along…
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140230
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Naked American Apparel models romp with elk and antelope, and the Ghost of Richard Nixon directs traffic with the grace of a Wounded Hyena.
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140232
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The summer I turned fourteen I wanted a job so I could start saving for a car. Actually, I had a job, but it wasn't much. Seventy-five cents…
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140276
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Anyone thinking they aren’t alone on life’s journey has their head up their ass.
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14022112
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No twinkle- so, planet, not star./
And bright, so either Venus/
or Jupiter. I’m guessing, Jupiter.
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140294
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When it starts looking bad enough, I bundle up and head out the door.
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140262
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All I wanted to do was lay in his smell, I had missed him and didn’t know it before now. He got up to urinate at one point and his absence was obscene to me.
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14021410
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Microscopic purposes emerged//
with their combinations and permutations
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140251
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She wasn't even trying to live.
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140222
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Marilyn turned the kayak away from the target ship, barely visible after all these years, toward the shallow waters by the shore. She recalled her father holding her hand at low tide, as she looked up at him and he told her…
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140100
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1. HeWomen's heads turned when Remy stopped in the doorway — as they always did. He noticed — as he always did — but paid no attention as he scanned the room. Too nervy to care. No sign of Fiona. Good. It paid to be the one doing the…
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140120
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Time stole you from underneath the goldendock. Writhing there, slick as a flapping tongue;lips gored, red, whose gaping could embolden weak hands behind the blazing buck blade, long ago pierced in your summer quietus, beneath the soft shade of a tackle box, as the…
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140100
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Azure was overwhelmed by white everywhere. Her eyes lost focus when she looked at the colors of Miri’s outfit, even her clothes.
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140141
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Byron's achievement, certainly quite remarkable, is to have raised the drunken monologue to a literary form.
Edmund Wilson
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140174
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An old man in overalls with rags on his head known locally as Bo Peep made his way up from the black side of town to the white. After listening for a few moments, he shook his head in disgust. “Boy, you can’t play them blues.”
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140165
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While the head of the KKK stands by
for the next order, ready to mete out
punishment, and smoking a cigar.
They are so efficient, like ex-Nazis.
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140177
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I am my beloved’s Advil and
she is my Aleve
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1401116
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The question isn't whether we will survive-/
like rats, we are supremely adaptive-//
but whether we should survive.
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140164
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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror
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140184
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When the hay was ripe it stirred and rippled like water.
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