1507 9 6
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...when suddenly I was pushed from behind, smack into the deep end.
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150711
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Everybody knew the McDonald’s at the Waterfront was selling theraflu stamp bags, and I guess I’d heard how bad it was for you—they’d had reports of dumbasses ODing on channel 2, 4, and 11—but it was a lot stronger than regular heroin and a lot cheaper...
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15071311
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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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150755
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150700
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Josh was having a hard enough time getting through his final year of studies without having his sister point out his fledgling love life to his parents.
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1506119
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All else is unmoved/
and relentless in its indifference.
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150664
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We played synthetic derivative punk. We used Donald Trump tweets as lyrics.
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1506158
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i hear the boom boom boom
in the room room room
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150621
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150696
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150654
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My wife says you can tell the crooks from the cops from the cowboys at the taco truck across the street.
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1506108
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“I have a theory,” she said on their first date, which was at an Indian restaurant where the music was a lovely singsong but the chef seemed enraged as he clapped a ball of dough between his hands, then threw it into the flames. And her date, whom she…
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150665
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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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150685
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there's looks between the covers and shotguns in the drawer
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150696
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And soon you'll be walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
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150687
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I always thought I would feel your hand, always, Lay with you as we flew higher together, laugh with You in the little spaces left between certain trees, like tiny blue flowers that only appear suddenly, made secretly Of…
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150600
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“You. There,” said the fellow, pointing his gun like a dead finger. “You believe that water saves the soul, don’t you?” Thomas looked to the other boys for an answer, but they didn’t know any more than he did.
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150621
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Grady Quail wondered why God didn't just have another son
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150676
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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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150621
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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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150633
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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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150653
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Benjamin stands beside his bed and unpacks his few things – wire cutters, knife, tape, line, two blocks of C-4, wallet, brush, and a small stuffed animal – a monkey.
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1505129
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How could a leaf be an accident?
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150554
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He did not hear her enter the room...
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150551
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I lift up my sweatshirt and reach with a full fist into my belly button. This is where the fat comes out.
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150571
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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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150544
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I was so used to the silence of late summer afternoons, when I could roll my hoop through the empty, sunlit piazzas without meeting another shadow, that at first I mistook the footsteps for the beat of a metronome spilling through an open window.
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150535
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at nightthe mannequins leave their glass prisons and hunt owls in the forest***sometimes they dance a slo-mo tarantella in a clearingbone-white …
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150563
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". . those incandescent secrets she would
pepper in. The sister who ran away."
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150465
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We were offered mannequins that had pubic hair that grew and swirled, and could visit like a pet, and sit in your lap
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