1404 4 3
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the start of what you predicted
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140355
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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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140355
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There was a certain romanticism in it, the salty old man sidling up to me at a bar, rhapsodizing in a slurred stream of conscious about the state of the world, the country, the state of his own heart. He didn't have an eye patch nor beard, nor was he…
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140332
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In retrospect, we should have been a cult.
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140355
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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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140321
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Ben was in no mood for games. His ribs hurt and his eye was painful. He would have to tell this girl, who had flicked her tongue in his ear and who did not sound like Sophie, to get lost
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140353
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The arrangements of lights on the cracking towers are a segment of Orion’s belt, the handle of the Big Dipper and a section of Andromeda’s spine.
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140300
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Mint upon my palate, I rub sleep infused eyes and crawl under the covers. Oh blessed sleep, please descend upon this body and transverse this fatigue. Eyes closed, bring a wavering blackness upon subtle lids. The conversation begins…
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140311
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There is no cement stronger than the one holding a miserable couple together.
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140394
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When it starts looking bad enough, I bundle up and head out the door.
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1403127
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Essences of bull and bison,//
stag and horse, illuminate/
the stony underground.
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140352
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Roy Carver owned a big tire retreading outfit over on the Mississippi.
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14031410
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Microscopic purposes emerged//
with their combinations and permutations
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140384
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When the hay was ripe it stirred and rippled like water.
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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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140231
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There was a hole in my tooth. It wouldn't let anything go.
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140200
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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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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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140244
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Betrayal of course is the great human crime. As I found out when . . . .
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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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140211
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Sleep left him like a fragmenting illusion. Suddenly, he was awake, like something pressing but fleeting had awoken him. Once awake, though, all he had was silence and stillness. His pulse quickened, his…
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140264
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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror
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140255
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Cockroaches in bed was the last straw. Alicia was sure she’d swallowed one in the middle of the night . . .
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140251
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She wasn't even trying to live.
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140253
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Dear Ray Bradbury, yesterday
was my thirteenth birthday, and I could not stop thinking of the
Mennonite girl in the milkwhite bonnet,
the squint of her eye, the twitch of her anxious finger on the trigger,
sudden holes bloomi
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140110
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When you see him, you'll know.That's what the prophecy was. Well, part of it, at least. The prophecy that Tabitha was to be the next Earth mother. That when she saw her partner, she would know. Keith, and his mission partner, and the elders, they had made it so. Made it…
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1401149
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Pain is the saddle which rides me
Pain is the cowboy's gun
More morphing, please!
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140140
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blueberry tea and vodka on a Friday night
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