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"It was John-Darren who once told me that he felt sorry for women."
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149631
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he wanders the house/ crying for the hairless tomcat/ (gone for the night/ on an overnight job).
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149674
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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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149654
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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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We deny one another, here,/
as long as it’s plausible.
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149665
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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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While waiting for the water to boil she formulated an excuse that the Saitos would be forced to accept as to why she must drop Isuko as a student. Suddenly the kettle sung out like a soprano, desperate to be silenced.
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1496106
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We bought a grand piano at Steinway Hall after 9/11, chased uptown by the dust of death and awakening from dreams of miniature jumpers stuck in the icing of white wedding cakes
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149654
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Swatches of Chinese silk in vivid red and lavender fly through the air. My granddaughter in her mid-thirties reaches for the cloth. I see in her mirror a shape forming; a slim, gray haired woman with a spring in her step. I pause to admire my reflection and pass over the…
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"Give it to me I said, you dip! Fork it over!"
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We're killing off the elephants. We're killing off the tigers. We're killing off monarch butterflies. We're wrecking the coral reefs. Big sad gorillas don't feel at home in their own homes. And all instead of learning to live in some…
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149585
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Stroman reached over and stroked the perimeter of Rouge's chin with his thumb. 'I am just joking. You are my soul-mate, you know that?'
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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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i hear the boom boom boom
in the room room room
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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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Randy stood in the alley behind Krasnowski Construction with a loaded gun shoved down the front of his pants. His friend Todd was inside, unloading the safe. And when Todd walked out the door, Randy was going to shoot him in the face.
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1495168
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Fear the air and fear the fire./
Fear the land and fear the water./
Creation is out to get you, speck,
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The stick had a head and a face and a swirling robe, all etched in wood.
It was the 14th Dalai Lama.
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149565
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I left the train, still going nowhere, but in a hurry.
Still a boy, but trapped in a suit.
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I remember the living room heater
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149555
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I think the Air Force Colonel must have known, from the flushed looks on our faces, that I had just fucked his daughter in a roadside patch of ragweed on the way to their house somewhere outside Danville. I remember looking back and forth between him and
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149525
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There is a whisper in the shadows
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149564
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It was 6 a.m. when the phone next to the bed awakened Francesco.
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1495103
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It ain't the steak, it's the sizzle.
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It's 2am. The wind is moving at speed, whipping gently the tree branches, and their leaves rustle simultaneously to create a audible sound, like hands flipping through sheets of paper, or that feeling you get on your fingertips when going across a textured surface. I'm…
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We didn't know him from Adam...
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