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149821
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As the jughead turned with a humph the old man muttered, "what a jerk." The jughead spun around and glared at the young black man and said, "Did you say that?" The old man laughed, raised his hand, looked up at the jughead and said, "I did." The jughead t
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149812
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...Truth is, it’s because of fabulously wealthy men and women like myself who long ago sucked all the cream out of the bottle, and now we’re coming back for whatever milk remains.
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149864
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x ≥ ponds rise beyond where you & i have stood
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149874
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The world is slick as alabaster, taking the guesswork out of the rain. Junction Road moves like thick grease under the tires of my '89 Skyhawk. The old car's making a clicking noise somewhere underneath the high-beam switch and the damn…
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149832
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She turned him down again. Said it was her insomnia. She was so tired, she said, she had to work in the morning, and why couldn't he understand that? She rolled over facing away from him. He sat up in bed, thinking. When was the last time? Three months ago? Four? He…
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149855
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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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1498106
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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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149825
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There is a whisper in the shadows
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149864
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It was 6 a.m. when the phone next to the bed awakened Francesco.
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149743
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149700
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One cold winter's day she met what she thought was the love of her life. He had everything going for him but his age. You see the sweet young thing was a lot younger than her. One might say that she had lived many lives before he had been born.
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149765
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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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1497115
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There are no inspirations./
There are only the things I like/
and the much more numerous//
things I do not like.
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1497129
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How could a leaf be an accident?
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149776
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"It was John-Darren who once told me that he felt sorry for women."
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1497146
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The white space beckons-/
a blank wall in a decrepit neighborhood-/
wishing to be decorated or defiled
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149774
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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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149745
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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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149765
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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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149735
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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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149732
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I climb up on the sofa and stand next to him. I smell something.
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149754
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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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149744
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Feelin’, feelin’ good, down-fallin’ down/rain, rain, rain came today,/wet alfresco alchemy
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149697
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We didn't know him from Adam...
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14961413
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Magdalena White Herrington praised the lucky stars who’d sent her the Klonakilty ghosts.
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149620
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The boy grew frightened when his grainy wooden skin began to melt, every fiber humming and softening.
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149661
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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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149611
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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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149600
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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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