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After the ship stopped shaking, the angry flashes of warning lights discontinued, a few people could be heard sobbing or whispering prayers.
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14172110
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The fly comes in against my will/
and hers. She would prefer/
the wider world with its piles of shit
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141762
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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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14171210
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When his wife left him, a friend told him that resentments were like canceled checks. You weren't going to get your money back.
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141722
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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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14171010
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I take her to the zoo, and the tigers get out. The little tigers, I mean. Cubs. Two of them.
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and watched you grinning from your opulent spinning cages and although you were never less than always remarkably perfumed, toappeal I'm guessing to the sniffing about masses, to me they've…
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141645
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His daddy died in his sleep. Went to bed one might and never got up.
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141620
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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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141621
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There is truth you can’t escape or say any other way and expect it still to be truth.
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14161211
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a human hand/
looks sadly/
naked now
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141642
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Downton Abbey and The Beverly Hillbillies. They're practically the same show.
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141660
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You're so insecure; you probably think this story is about you.Well, you would be right.
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141632
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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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Too many sparrows flit and twitter here./
Let’s go inside. The sky is far too big/
and the sun bears down on us like searchlights.
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Let's make a monetary enticement for writers who can revel in the magnitude of this tragedy...
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141686
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My uncle lived part-time in prison, in a cell with a blanket, pillow, and towel. The remainder of his days he lived in a small house on Prospect Street.
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141600
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They were working on the factory floor when they died, the auspices of mayhem filtering out to a host of ravens gleaning the neighboring fields. Clouds of them fled the scene around the time of the incident turning the day into twilight…
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My grandmother is magnificently breasted in her floor-length nightgown.
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Francesco needed a magnifying glass to read her little missives.
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One day it was boring / to be alive.
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There was a hole in my tooth. It wouldn't let anything go.
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141522
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Someone shoved over a table. A little girl started crying.
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141500
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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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Is this a place to show posterity and mortality?
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141532
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On shingle of seashells &
Bullet shells,
Ghosts drift along the shore
Of the Black Sea.
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141520
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perhaps because they were holding hands and sharing tears; perhaps because the moon shone so brightly; perhaps for no reason at all; but both the Coriander and Isabella felt a surge of hope so strongly that both smiled a genuine smile.
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141521
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"In the grave my lips will still be moving."
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141500
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This is the most frustrating kind of amnesia.
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I don't know where to start. We're gaining flight. Did you seeanybody we know? The trees are always a concern. I don't thinkI know how to stop this thing from crashing into parked cars,that is if we live. You can say it was all on a stupid dare. They don't have to know…
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