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They could occupy the space//
left by creatures larger and more/
evolved.
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156111
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"So, how did you know my name?"
"I read memories." i said
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156143
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The shirts hanging by the back veranda serve as our memorial to them.
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1561107
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and where have the years sped
how distant was your youth
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156154
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156185
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156100
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Who is the torturer and who is the tortured?
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156121
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In the house by a kidney-shaped lake, her grandfather was speaking to a stranger about a foreign war that had never ended, had spread close to home.
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156132
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Mother told me that I would go to the moon. But she did not tell me that on Diwali night, the moon hid himself on the other side of the sky.
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156154
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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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156155
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She thinks this is the place she dreamed
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156194
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Take no form or face beautiful enough to cause warfare, or that which would provoke inanimate objects to song. If a tree wishes to flower in your presence, request that this happen very slowly.
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156020
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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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156032
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I could feel myself slipping back into my old ways again and it always hurt like hell.
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156042
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Light youth
that
barely touches the
ground
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156021
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156021
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“Apollo twenty-two. Come in.”, the voice crackled through the speakers of the aircraft. There was only silence broken by a solitary meow and the slight whistle of oxygenated air through the ventilation system. “Captain Snuggles, now that you…
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156000
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156055
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I have a ninety two percent rejection rate.
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156032
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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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156000
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At night, he saw the commercial, the same one every time: the Watson’s girl, mascot for her father’s pool, spa, and billiards business. The Watson’s girl was a veteran at this, the same one from his youth, the one whose heart-shaped face and cleavage the
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156022
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"I have consulted the Internet," the man remarks, squatting low, sorting through a mountain of tablets. He snags two and stands slowly, confidently, and I realize suddenly that he is Moses. Two iPads, cradled surely in each wrist, glow with lists.
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1560105
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It's been twenty years since you left. I should call it a day.Even the Obeah woman said as much. But I don't listen. Instead I sit with old and proper ethnic widows in black, waiting for your return. One of them translates my story for the…
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156055
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156085
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1962, What I wanted was a Levittowner rancher like my best friend had,
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156056
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Sometimes I think living in a house with so many rooms /
you can get lost just making your way to the fridge /
should be enough. I chastise myself for wanting more.
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155900
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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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155920
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Each evening the man allowed himself an hour of fresh air. He and Prickles would situate themselves on the tiny balcony overlooking the same street, a blanket bundled around them both for warmth. These were the times he liked to talk to Prickles the most
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155920
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When they tell you to choose your last meal, it probably hasn't dawned on you yet.
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155911
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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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