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If there was a single constant in the boy’s life, it was that he had always thrown knives. In his youth he had thrown them only in his mind . . .
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152132
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I climb up on the sofa and stand next to him. I smell something.
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152134
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Carl’s peculiarity of toilet paper rolls is not covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act – he’s looked it up.
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152163
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". . those incandescent secrets she would
pepper in. The sister who ran away."
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152144
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Feelin’, feelin’ good, down-fallin’ down/rain, rain, rain came today,/wet alfresco alchemy
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1520119
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All else is unmoved/
and relentless in its indifference.
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152042
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Light youth
that
barely touches the
ground
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152032
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When I rolled him under the bed, I thought I would sweep him out later with arms curled up like legs beneath the shells of cicadas I used to gather from the laundry porch and set on the kitchen counter to scare my roommates. At least, I did that until…
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152042
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Lorelei was bombarded constantly with it. She began to hate the city...
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152054
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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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152022
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The first days of October are ordinary in the way that milk just hours away from spoiling is ordinary milk. You can baptise your cornflakes with it, but part of you knows the whole thing is just shy of almost right.
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152093
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This is me pitching a recently completed screenplay to a film producer at lunch the other day:
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1520108
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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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152000
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When sixth-grade science teacher Pat Farrell assigns an earth-science lab on measuring crystals, the girls collect their materials, read the directions and follow the sequence from beginning to end. The first thing boys do is ask, “Can we eat this?"
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152098
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I don't think you understand. A sad boy doesn't just die inside, slowly, he becomes withdrawn from certain types of lovely youthful reasoning out loud, accustomed to feeling what is expected, graded, just to be allowed to survive another…
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1520127
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no need to write it if you/
live it, conscious of the light, the/
shape, the sound, the taste, and shadow.
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151997
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We didn't know him from Adam...
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1519911
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The brain taints everything it brings to us/
with its limited apparatus, its precepts,//
all the things it thinks it knows.
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151953
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The new king hunted often. We heard her whirring above, the terrible whirring a forest of—, and she drifted over our city half dangling from the chopper, rifle barrel glinting.
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1519127
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She has dwindled for the better part of a year, staved off her period, breasts and hips like a warrior. Chestnut strands that danced along candy apple cheeks now surrender to metal pins, her bun severe as an old maid's. Her prominent ears…
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1519118
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nothing suffices as harbor / but a permit to claw at every yawing chasm
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151900
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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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151964
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i dream a thousand interconnected pictures. i dream the future. i dream we are together. i dream i love you. i dream i am forgiven. i dream you care. i dream nice dreams. i go to the bank. i deposit my check. i pay the rent. i pet the cat. i…
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151963
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That is a pretty damning statement.
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151955
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151941
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You gather their faces in the palms of your hands and their purple eyes blink, blink, unseeing.
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151955
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151985
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—Jesus, that bastard has everyone in his pocket.
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151922
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Meet Carl. He's six-three, two hundred and thirty pounds. He has light-brown hair,…
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151942
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I am fair game that will be hunted and eaten, cutting its edge with Satan's tears from six eyes.
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