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The white space beckons-/
a blank wall in a decrepit neighborhood-/
wishing to be decorated or defiled
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152374
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My work is not that sexy and glamorous kind of time travel that you see in the movies with Deloreans and phone booths.
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152340
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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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152361
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Once was when we were in Vegas on layover from L.A., I told her I thought we should go to the Elvis Chapel and get remarried.
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152321
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He boasts of administering regular beatings to his wife and claims that she enjoyed it.
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152375
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He knows why I’m here, so he stalls, talking about the coffee, about how it’s a new dark blend from a little shop in The Village, about how he loves the flavor, so rich, but just because a coffee is dark doesn’t mean it’s stronger, that, in fact, it’s the
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152365
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"People are stupid. They've always been stupid. But these days...." His voice trailed off. "Dumb and dumber, huh?" the Boss asked. Peter nodded.
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152353
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At times we rarely desire to be where we are at home quite as much as we desire to be where we are no longer.
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152331
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The ticking must have gone on for an hour before Kathy realized it wasn't a clock. When the line finally moved, the rhythm changed. When the queue stopped again, she glanced behind her and noticed a woman in torn jeans and a filthy sweater tapping a heel on the…
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15231311
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I was always more comfortable with the ponies than you were / more comfortable with betting windows and two-dollar bills than you were
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152321
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My father had a terrific argument with his wife, my stepmother, a flaming harridan with a voice like hydrochloric acid, and insisted on driving me back home to California.
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152341
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It's come down to this: you're a grown man afraid to face his own son. For the past few years there has been tension;…
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152233
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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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152212
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In exactly 100 words, I review the cracks between my keyboard keys.
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152242
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Before I grew used to it
I would wake to the sound
of the Amtrak whistle
echoing down along the tracks
behind our trailer park
and wonder who was hurtling where
through the dark night and across
this wide Illinois prairie
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152222
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Sounds terrific, but are there any strings attached?
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152200
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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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152220
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The gentleman is discreet, but his eyes wander from his paper at intervals as we travel together from London to Manchester. We happen to be on the same train and he happens to be sitting opposite me. I happen to be a size 34C.
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152220
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There is no life here, only a bleak slab of frozen desert and a sorrowful wind that calls for me to venture out.
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152231
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Alcohol and American writers have always had a connection–about 70 percent of American winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature could be considered heavy drinkers if not more.
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1522121
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Henry Ground was a healthy and well adjusted English man who excelled at chess and folk dancing. One day, for no apparent reason, he decided to fill his guinea pig with helium. He carried the animal under the light of the stars into the shed at the bottom of his garden.…
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152221
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Everything seems still, but it's not.
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152276
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Only blood I got on me was pulling him over onto my seat when I got out.
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152288
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I caught her a-feasting with her eyes and smilin' at that Jesus- haired Waffle House cook, Dennis Roy, again and I said, “Merlene, my tiny kitty-kat, they's no reason to carry no torch for him ‘cause he may not be with us very long ‘cause, if you notice, they's no…
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152264
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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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1522138
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Treasure that first love. And that first heartbreak. Don’t let it be the last thing.
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152233
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I immediately felt anxious guilt, being the one responsible for opening the way for infection.
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152111
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1521810
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Life is not always quixotic.
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152100
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The temperature would drop rapidly once the sun hit the horizon. I had about an hour before this would happen. I stood and put on my coat. The fire had gone out. There was no smoke...
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