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The moon poured more/
light into the sky/
yet we kept on talking
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149254
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149264
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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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149232
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It was the coward's way out, to commit suicide. And yet, one had to be brave to attempt it.
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149200
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We looked out into the darkness and then at our children. The dark of the forest was feeding them with ideas, filling their imaginations with things beautiful and things wicked.
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149100
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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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1491107
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Contention over market share/
is bred in them and we are cousins
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14911211
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I've got an appointment to see my shrink next Wednesday. She's pretty sharp. Not bad looking, either.
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149144
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"..squeezing her eyes and mouth tightly."
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149122
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Sounds terrific, but are there any strings attached?
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149100
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Chipmunk SongChipmunk workin' in the roadside weedsLookin' all around for nuts and seedsSmall bird callin' from a hickory treeAll's right with the world and all's right with meChipmunk searchin' for nuts and seedsLucky fellow finds all he needsAs for me all I desireIs a…
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149140
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Over the years, Morgana had grown. She was so much more than what Xavier remembered. So much different. She had an astute, almost shrewd air about her. She didn't seem nearly as fragile as he had left her. No, she had an eye out for herself now.…
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149153
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I remember a big Walgreen’s Drug store (maybe in Elmhurst, or Oakbrook Center?) and this shopping expedition we went on. That’s where you bought your first Dust Buster, I believe (or was this another man?) Anyway, you made me carry everything. We didn’t
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1491189
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The Street singer gathers up his coins
and counts to a hundred before
The last string stops vibrating
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149153
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In his dreamlike state the pianist turned into a preying mantis.
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149131
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While waiting for the water to boil she formulated an excuse that the Saitos would be forced to accept as to why she must drop Isuko as a student. Suddenly the kettle sung out like a soprano, desperate to be silenced.
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149164
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He injected her with a sedative to keep her still. He projected himself into her narcotic dream, a small bar with tango playing from a jukebox. They were dancing.
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14911110
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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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149165
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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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149133
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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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149000
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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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149054
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vampires seem not to be victims of drought . . .
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149087
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there’s more to life than poontang
but not when you’re sixteen and
your hands are full of heavy breasts
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149034
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She had a face like a frog: wide mouth, prominent eyes – and when she touched him, her fingers felt clammy on his skin.
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149042
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theme songs for concentration camps!?
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1490810
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Life is not always quixotic.
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149040
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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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149012
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In exactly 100 words, I review the cracks between my keyboard keys.
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149021
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149071
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I have the right to remain silent. If I waive that right everything I say can and will be used against me like a razor dragged across my neck.
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