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It was 6 a.m. when the phone next to the bed awakened Francesco.
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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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Treasure that first love. And that first heartbreak. Don’t let it be the last thing.
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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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I remember one time when we played strip poker in the basement of your house on Euclid Avenue, me, Terry, you and Andy. And I remember drinking lots of wine and fixing the deck so that you kept losing and having to take off all your clothes, and still you
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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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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 machines are alive but she is not. The pads keep her face from being irritated but my mind isn't so lucky."Let me GO!" she cries....at least that's what I hear. They are waiting for permission for her to go. Eager hesitation best describes the tense…
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149254
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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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x ≥ ponds rise beyond where you & i have stood
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You may be wondering, as is only natural, about the designated husband of our dear Princess.
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The drop is like a hangman's drop, an executioner's, but farther and longer, perhaps three or four seconds.
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There is a whisper in the shadows
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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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I climb up on the sofa and stand next to him. I smell something.
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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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It's come down to this: you're a grown man afraid to face his own son. For the past few years there has been tension;…
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All else is unmoved/
and relentless in its indifference.
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Who hasn't got a scar...some flesh wound of memory.
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"It was John-Darren who once told me that he felt sorry for women."
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i hear the boom boom boom
in the room room room
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I remember the living room heater
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"But is it politically correct?" he asked. "Oh, yes," said Hank. "It's all the rage."
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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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Love is a strong word ... When you could have been enough.
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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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