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an undercurrent of fear is running through my community
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1331105
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The washing machine at home was broken. It was an old leaky Maytag. A discouraging mess—twisted panties, sky-blue jeans, and an old lover or two or three floating downstream (the reverse of spawning salmon). Each man was slightly drowned,…
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133176
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My drunk friend is built like a hastily packed trash bag; full of lumps and portending very dark things.
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133100
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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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133120
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Christmas Muzak was piped through to every store in the shopping mall. Giant red velvet bows adorned reproduction Victorian gaslights. Yards of glittered cotton pretended to be snow. A Santa rang a brass bell.
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133100
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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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133196
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New waitress/bartender
draws my attention to
bare ankles and red hair
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133101
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Is any person is worthy of the kind of ache?
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133153
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Oh my god - A plagiarizing pony - I know someone must have said that before
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13312210
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Something about her eyes...
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133175
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... the CBO issued a concise and brilliant report demonstrating that the most cost-effective and permanent solution to the multiple problems presented by persistent poverty in the United States was the elimination of all those with prorated household or i
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133101
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133122
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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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133161
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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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1330107
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I have known a head become / a callus, matriculate, stop / shaving, move to Vegas
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1330148
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The alphabets will disappear.
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133033
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They look like giant golden raindrops, or flying saucers, or peculiar fish out of their element
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133074
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“Is truth real?”—what a time for such a question to emerge! Such an elementary question, too, a pity no one was asking it two days ago.
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133042
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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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1330810
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Life is not always quixotic.
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133054
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Christmas night was closing in at the Cantrips alehouse in Aberdeen, a firm favourite for riggers and other men and women who lived life close to the horizon. Sometimes, on a Saturday night, things might get a bit rowdy but Mother O'Grady would stand firm and bring out…
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133021
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It was a strange mood, unfamiliar, not one of her usual “I'm busy wrestling with my personal demons” type of moods. She'd been steeped in it all day and I, like a shipwrecked victim reaching out for any piece of flotsam…
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133062
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She is trying to quit—nasty habit this smoking. Still, this is the only time she lets herself smoke these days: Laundry day.
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1330134
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So I've got this head in a jar and I'm not sure who it belongs to.
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133061
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She burps in beauty, like a frog
Who sits on lily pad so green,
Resounding nightly in his bog
But to my eyes unseen.
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133011
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My grief is made up of
Demons fighting to
Claw their way first
Out of my eyes
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133061
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The lipstick on your collar walked up the steps and through the front door, without a key. Her smile was hypnotically red and bountiful. The guards standing around didn't dare frisk her for weapons, her lips were weapon enough.
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133085
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1962, What I wanted was a Levittowner rancher like my best friend had,
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133043
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The first of the fires that started by the river in the abandoned mills were so hot they burned white and pale blue
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