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Getting answers felt like it was not enough. Madam Mayweather wanted more. She wanted to hurt someone.
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who can quite say/when careless talk & confidence/slips into that other charged thing/so minimal at first
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I haven’t read many of them, these poets
that they speak of – Whitman and his Leaves
Of Grass, Mary Oliver and her wild life
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Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
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The blood from my palm runs across the rocky surface of the shell. I push the knife into the crease again, searching for a weakness, the one space where the two sides will gasp and then separate. You tell me it doesn’t matter.
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The room smelled of an old rank basement. Boys and girls of all ages crowded the stage. The room was dark with only a few lights that hung from above keeping the crowd dark and silhouetting Chris on drums.
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Removing the deeply embedded jack-blade frommy naked side, like any slicked-upsplinter, was just a bit jarring on the first bite, on first try, I must admit. I freelydo so now to your frozen-over faces. You made your…
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The night I screamed you out of my life for good, I fed your confettied photo to swirling toilet, a ticker tape parade and dead fish burial rolled into one. Later I found the box, a jiffy…
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This is the most frustrating kind of amnesia.
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I recently discovered that the man I'd loved and trusted for twenty years had a secret girlfriend on the side for the past decade. We've parted ways and I'm trying to go on with my life. At about the same time, my friend Judy lost her beloved elderly dog after…
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Rothko and Stella loved the beach. To Jalapeno it was just one big litter box and for her it held no great appeal. She sprawled sunbathing on the dashboard lifting a lid occasionally to watch Lauren riding a wave. The dogs delirious with freedom romped and chased tight…
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His touch, even now, seemed to set off tremors inside her.
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Q:What made you want to be a person who rides a train?
A:As soon as I learned there was such a thing, I wanted to be one.
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Ever since they switched from paper scripts to the little rubber balls branded with code I have been inundated with sickness.
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The Traignarry Light Preservation Society meets monthly, and welcomes visitors.
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"the dark velvet slide of the tongue."
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In the words of that great philosopher Hunter S. Thompson, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
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He gave her everything she hoped for, with the exception of two things.
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There was a hole in my tooth. It wouldn't let anything go.
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"...she became aware of
her cold saliva
dripping slowly over her bare
arm muscle,..."
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our eyes misted white as goatskin
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I'm not dying. What is it called if you think you might have Hypochondria but you really don't? I'm worried that's what I have. Is it cold in here? Or is it me, dying?
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Sora and Ciel stood before Dean Morden inside his office. It felt weird to the girls looking at him sitting behind Madam Mayweather’s desk
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At night, he saw the commercial, the same one every time: the Watson’s girl, mascot for her father’s pool, spa, and billiards business. The Watson’s girl was a veteran at this, the same one from his youth, the one whose heart-shaped face and cleavage the
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We’re more into the punishment that works its way in through the skin and coats the heart anonymously.
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Tell you what, if people only knew what the buggo does to your insides before it shellacs your outsides they'd think twice before dancing. And guys like us, we'd get parades. Guys like us, oof-oof! Im-mune to romance.
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I’m up to my ass in social media.
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