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“The window is a much better place to read,” she said.I wasn't aware she was talking to me, at first. In my typical manner, I was thinking about far off possibilities and realities completely detached from my own. Yet, here she was, a far off…
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“Now,” my friend said. “Tell us about earthquakes. Can we expect one anytime soon?”
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135233
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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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135165
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Certain disorders lend themselves to poetics.
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1351107
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Dreams / of being a millionaire are replaced by dreams / of being a billionaire
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135131
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"Look Emily, I’m charging your solar powered calculator and helping you relieve your dependence on foreign oil."
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135100
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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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Five evangelists in bathing suits
baptize a man
while green chilies
roast on a Ferris wheel rotisserie
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135111
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Maybe our whole generation is going to hell, but I’m not getting any younger or better looking. Life’s too short for the missionary position.
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135121
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He boasts of administering regular beatings to his wife and claims that she enjoyed it.
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135164
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x ≥ ponds rise beyond where you & i have stood
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135188
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I caught her a-feasting with her eyes and smilin' at that Jesus- haired Waffle House cook, Dennis Roy, again and I said, “Merlene, my tiny kitty-kat, they's no reason to carry no torch for him ‘cause he may not be with us very long ‘cause, if you notice, they's no…
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A familiar ritual by now...
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135164
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He injected her with a sedative to keep her still. He projected himself into her narcotic dream, a small bar with tango playing from a jukebox. They were dancing.
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135121
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most interesting, i investigate all of this at 1:15 on a thursday morning and consistently contradict my assumptions while simultaneously validating them.
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135110
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It was an eagle in the waves
Those eyes make no mistake
Especially from a mile high
Blue fish and tuna
Too dumb to run
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135174
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It starts on the Fallopian Speedway
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135173
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Look around you, see what you have built.
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135120
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Overnight Robbie had lost his youth. But since he was still only nine and his arm looked like a nine-year-old's arm, people didn't notice much at first, until he tried running. Or if he was introduced, and they went to shake his hand. He immediately lea
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I have known a head become / a callus, matriculate, stop / shaving, move to Vegas
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135087
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Study decay, says the Queen of the Underground.
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135000
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The summer was announcing itself in thick waves of heat that rolled like a slow motion hurricane inside Mark Keeler's 1971 Mercury Montego. The car baked in a…
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Ty speed-walked down the long ass tunnel that connected his “A” train to the NJ Transit bus, which would take him across the bridge, where he'd splurge for a cab to take him home.
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If white t-shirts are only an SPF of 8, she couldn’t even imagine what a white nylon-mesh umbrella on this godforsaken beach might be in terms of protection.
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two pairs of arms and legs
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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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135021
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Smiling at stones and chunks of earth pounding in...
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135032
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I climb up on the sofa and stand next to him. I smell something.
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135000
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Over by the swimming pool singing - Hey hey it’s okay - A line from a song he heard - On the stereo when we were driving in the car - On the way to sign the papers to get - His grandfather released from the hospital
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"That zit on your forehead just won't go away, will it, sweetie?" she adds as she brushes her daughter's bangs downward.
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