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The women were increasing their writing in the restroom. I asked you later why women only talk on restroom walls, and you said, why do men only talk on restroom walls? I told you as much as I could remember of what had been written.
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144342
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There was this old guy named Ned. He swept floors. No one knew much about him. He'd been around for years sweeping the concrete floors of the hangar-sized buildings that housed the major mechanical service departments at an old amusement park.
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1443810
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Life is not always quixotic.
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144340
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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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144321
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Up top, the sky is like a fist fight-
fat lip purple and bitchslap pinks get wilder as the tabs kick in.
Those hovering lights are aliens!
we assert with insistent like-mindedness
from where we sit directly beneath the airport flight path.
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144361
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money ain't nothin next to lovin.
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144300
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She wheeled more deeply into the office towards Mason’s desk. Keith hurried to the desk and pulled the chair out of the way for her and a sat down next to her. She was blue-eyed, pale and completely hairless, which made it difficult to guess her age.
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144311
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“...you should have something moving around here.” Tracey looked around, then said, “Paul, you should get a cat.”
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144354
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“You haven’t been listening, have you.”
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144372
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This is what it is to feel yourself forget.
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14431811
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144352
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144378
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Reprisal The bomb blew away hubris, shocked the arrogant bastards into humiliated silence. None of them had experienced hunger and they'd misjudged its effect. In the lobby of the palace, dirt, plaster, glass shifted, rumbled,…
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144365
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I was low on carburetor / oxygen and my fraud protection / had just expired.
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144254
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what lion lies/ o king of flame/ upon your golden crown?
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144234
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Wednesdays were humiliating. Third graders had to bring in twenty-five cents for class dues. If you forgot, the teacher would write your name on the board and it would stay there until you settled your debt. My family could afford the weekly quarter; the problem was…
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144253
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Don reports everything to Uzma and Rasheed, I'm aware of that. It doesn't bother me. I'm not hiding anything from them or anyone else.
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144200
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Outside Natsume’s room, in the kitchen, Mrs. Saito and Emi prepared lunch. They were silent, but there were no feelings of negativity in the air.
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144200
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I hauled out my Norton Anthology and threw caution to the wind.
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144221
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Everything seems still, but it's not.
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144275
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And right there beside me
That single wobbling
Snail-like trail of my heavy
French Horn case
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1442125
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The moon poured more/
light into the sky/
yet we kept on talking
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144266
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He thought she should have come with an owner’s manual
So he would know how to operate the equipment
It was definitely more than he bargained for
Or knew how to handle
She was too hot
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144231
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It worked for a short time and their next album, "The Hirsute Agenda" became an underdog success.
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144272
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Love is a strong word ... When you could have been enough.
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144276
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Lonely kids only want this thing to go away and stay away. To not be lonely anymore. The lonely, uncool Kids have learned to be absolutely Still in the moment. Who does this fall to? They Haven't read enough Vonnegut for your liking? David Foster…
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144261
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The old man is dead,
body propped in its cart
like the dead El Cid
strapped on his horse by Jimena
to save Valencia,
and yet...
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144198
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drunkards indulge, addicts abuse
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144100
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The summer was announcing itself in thick waves of heat that rolled like a slow motion hurricane inside Mark Keeler's 1971 Mercury Montego. The car baked in a…
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14411610
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He trembled as she splayed open his palm...
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