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The moon poured more/
light into the sky/
yet we kept on talking
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149630
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It's cheap beer, but cold
you welcome that rushing hiss and the following
long drink of chilly wetness washing away
the parched, dust dry, cotton mouth
of grave-digging in the desert sun
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149664
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“What took you so long?” she asks. She seldom asks me that when we’re done, but today I feel ready to protract the glory, to tease out its rise and fall like the lingering chords of a Debussy pastorale.
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149652
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Your stepsisters send their love. All three are still on the wagon.
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149653
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Benjamin stands beside his bed and unpacks his few things – wire cutters, knife, tape, line, two blocks of C-4, wallet, brush, and a small stuffed animal – a monkey.
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149500
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There were security guards running all over the place. Campus police cars, with lights flashing, at various locations in the distance. Sora gripped her books tight as they saw their dormitory building ahead.
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149521
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Welcome to OTHERS. A place where I hope you will experience the enchantment of a time and place like no other
MATTITUCK 1971
LIKE YOU NEVER KNEW IT
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1495115
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In the darkness, as I awaken, an orange glowing 3:45 greets me . . .
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149593
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This is me pitching a recently completed screenplay to a film producer at lunch the other day:
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149566
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I hear
the shriek
of the Laughing Lady
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149553
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In his dreamlike state the pianist turned into a preying mantis.
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14951110
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Almost every weekend I'd ask Henry to go out with me and Marge, telling him we could double and, hey, maybe he could bring Ellen, who he dated a while back, who still asked about him. I'd suggest such things as going to a movie or out for a few drinks to reminisce about our…
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149500
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Emi watched the Perez sisters show each other support. It brought back memories of Mayumi giving her support, even fighting for her.
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149521
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I'll strip off the skin down to the begin again.
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1494107
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Contention over market share/
is bred in them and we are cousins
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149433
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I know who done it. Them goddamn taters. I walked around the yard and started picking up pieces of the camaro, wondering if, from above, they’d laid the parts out into some kinda cult symbols or something.
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149400
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In our first conversation, she tells me love is a dragon: she has come across it’s destruction, hears of it’s size, mythology, of it’s immorality. I sip my hot cocoa (God, I pray she thinks it is coffee)...
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149421
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His voice isn't familiar but his words are. He says he knows we haven't spoken in years and apologizes for it. I can hear him pacing on the other end of the line, tapping things and then a shriek of glass shattering. Really, I tell him, no need to…
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1494910
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149465
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Do you want this, you ask, and hand me a blue silk shirt of hers
with small yellow flowers. I'm afraid to say no,
in case it makes you remember all over again.
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1494127
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no need to write it if you/
live it, conscious of the light, the/
shape, the sound, the taste, and shadow.
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149433
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The hotel sits on the highest point in Shimla: a place of cedar-scented air, an aggressive monkey population, and summer houses left by the British Raj.
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149463
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". . those incandescent secrets she would
pepper in. The sister who ran away."
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149300
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Tent City has gone quiet. There is a deadline. I heard it on the news. I’ve never thought about the word before. How in this place it means what it means.
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149354
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vampires seem not to be victims of drought . . .
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149342
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theme songs for concentration camps!?
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1493810
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Life is not always quixotic.
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149340
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He saw his mother standing over him, and he called out to her for help, but she only laughed and faded into the paper towel dispenser.
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149322
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Someone set a pig aflame.
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