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The Plaza had a chess-board floor, green wood booths, and the lights stayed up. I might be combining a memory of Fitzie's in Binghamton. The Plaza felt like a preppy soda fountain with beer.
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150265
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Infinity occurs as an afterthought, for discoverers like Columbus as for countries like America.
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1502219
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Polite society will cheer/
as another body is discovered//
and disposed of. The cheers/
will drown out the gasps
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150100
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Mayumi and Emi were in the spring’s together, center of the pool at shoulder depth. Emi stood in the center, letting its warm and clean air clear out her thoughts.
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150142
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...it's about female needs, Rex.
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150154
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This is why the earth revolves around the sun: refrigerator magnets.
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150163
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It is not unusual to see Göttwigg with his shirt on inside out.
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150132
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“There is no future in art,
you will not change lives
with flowery words.
Please don’t rock the boat”
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150132
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Momma pointed out our paintings on the walls, the signs we had learned, but when Daddy saw our friends, their wheelchairs, braces on their legs, he left...
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150100
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Even if you're doing it together, there's no unity when everyone's dancing to their own tune.
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1501116
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150121
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Well, yeah but no one that wasn't pointing a gun at me, mostly. I shot at a lot of people but there were only three times when I can honestly say I know that I blew someone away.
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150131
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Your Uncle Howard and I listened to Dutch Reagan re broadcast big league baseball on WHO Radio when we were little. He'd call the play action off the wire complete with sound effects. The son of a bitch turned out to be a Republican...
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150188
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I could hide away in this tower
But I am Rapunzel
And I will let down my hair
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150022
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I am a human resource, batteries not included
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150051
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Nicole knows that Deirdre is winding up for the weekly pitch, practicing the line in her mind.
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1500105
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Two types coexist- the sanguine/
and exsanguinated./
My skin is cool/
and pale as moonlight
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150000
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She didn't want to let go of the crumpled tissue she had been holding all this time, as it is wrong to litter, but she finally did, and felt free. Released. Bad. Naughty. Almost orgasmic.
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150066
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Divine guidance. That's why Dad used a blowtorch to set the jug on fire, its contents the “Devil's elixir.”
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150040
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“I’m making a dress,” she said, feeding the pages through the sewing machine.
He didn’t know how to answer. “Are those my books?”
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150042
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Downton Abbey and The Beverly Hillbillies. They're practically the same show.
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150032
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150074
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Bill Watterson isn't just the creator of the world's best comic strip. According to the book “Looking for Calvin and Hobbes,” a biography of the elusive and reclusive cartoonist, Watterson is also a world-class introvert. Watterson refuses to make…
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150065
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just another torn & burning journeyflag for the rebel heart. All we know forsure is that dancing among the toads andcrickets takes a bit of courage. Beauty takesreal living guts these days. Laughing takes guts,too. Living takes love. Love is feeling. What'dyou think I…
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1500128
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The slicing is easy. Blade barely touching skin, flesh separating into two clean parts. A breath, and blood fills in the space, an old friend materializing in the shadows. I am redolent with hope and desire. I can't stop thinking of how he excised himself from my…
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This story* is brought to you by
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What follows is one of those moments, though to some people, it would seem a fantasy, perhaps a "Wizard of Oz" era tale.
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149932
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To him the younger women, contemporaries of the bride, all sounded as if they were breathing helium.
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men sitting on stoops
women earning the rent
by working as servants
in the rich folks yard
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