1561 9 4
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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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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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1560123
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I think we love sex because it brings us so close to the heat of creation that we can see the smoldering flames and the light rising from twigs being rubbed together between the legs. Okay – your turn!
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156064
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You’ll say you should have known. You’ll blame my music.
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1560115
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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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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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156000
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The cubs from every Clan shivered at his snarl. The Elder’s presence was overwhelming, and level of pressure pressing down upon them.
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156000
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Outside Natsume’s room, in the kitchen, Mrs. Saito and Emi prepared lunch. They were silent, but there were no feelings of negativity in the air.
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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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1560118
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They could occupy the space//
left by creatures larger and more/
evolved.
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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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156000
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Who is the torturer and who is the tortured?
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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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156055
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She thinks this is the place she dreamed
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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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The boy grew frightened when his grainy wooden skin began to melt, every fiber humming and softening.
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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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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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155921
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She also castrated her cat. All by herself...with her Swiss Army Knife. And not with the blade either.
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155922
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The streets downtown belong to the people. The people wanted greater transparency. They wanted Mayor Abok to be straight and narrow with them. They wanted their streets to be level and safe to drive their vehicles on. They wanted their streets to be usefu
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155943
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The shirts hanging by the back veranda serve as our memorial to them.
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155951
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They come in my room without knocking and I'm nekkid.
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155955
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155910
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[WARNING: DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 'R XMAS!]
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