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Most times a vertical word balloon floats before him.
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150765
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Infinity occurs as an afterthought, for discoverers like Columbus as for countries like America.
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150622
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Her memory was a faded pastiche of the past, and indeed the present sat uneasily in the middle of the dreams that governed her mind; so it was that often she would forget the day, the time, the year.
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150641
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Joe Don followed the route taken by an increasing number of Texas teenage jocks whose football glory days are prematurely cut short and joined his high school's Cowboy Poet Squad.
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150621
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Jill's number was flashing on Carol's caller ID. Jill, the baby sister she had practically raised after their mother died of a stroke when Carol was 12. It had been months since they'd talked. Jill had been avoiding Carol because Jill's idiot husband Mark…
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150644
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Francesca is a sweet girl and everything, but her incessant doting on Paolo is best left private . . .
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150642
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...it's about female needs, Rex.
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150643
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Until the ivy hides me in
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1506115
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His grandmother's recipe called for the pasta dough to be beaten with a bone--and not just any bone either. It had to be a human femur. This was his first hurdle. Where would he get such a thing at this hour in this part of town? Or, for that matter, at any…
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150641
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Motionless seconds turned
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150632
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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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150644
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This story* is brought to you by
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The room turns red and I start screaming and ejaculating. The whole class is watching as Mr.Smith slams down my copy of the test with his right hand and swiftly tears off my penis with his left.
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150632
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They watched the seven o'clock news.
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150684
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—Well, are you having an affair with Jack Mahler?
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150631
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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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150631
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150611
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children love to push the gas up and down my limbs
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150655
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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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15061510
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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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1506119
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For Sale: Clean Depends, Never Worn
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150542
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Stars fat as the stars that Van Gogh painted on his easel in Arles, a ring of candles burning on the brim of his hat. Stars that fill the night with delirium.
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1505109
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Only last Friday, he was introduced/
around, smiling, healthy,/
a fine young man.
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150562
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Your usage of the English language / is awkward and passé—
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1505128
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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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150551
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She wasn't even trying to live.
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150553
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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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150595
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My life was growing on me like a soft Scottish moss
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1504107
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I have known a head become / a callus, matriculate, stop / shaving, move to Vegas
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—So much for a cocktail at the tender hour of twilight, he told the empty beer bottle.
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