1487 6 5
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I found a diseased fish / wedged between some boulders near the pier
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148744
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A rope is cleaner,
he explains with a straight face.
He's calmed by the visual.
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148600
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Mezereon’s giant dragon heart marveled at the girl’s revelations. First, he was heartsick for her and the sad state of things back where she had come to him from. Secondly, he was aghast to learn she was a princess; for even dragons know and respect r
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148611
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No chance for Hallo, we sank into an unlit station doorway and he fumbled through my shorts.
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148622
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The light of day is screaming,
shook by the calls of howler monkeys,
their low roar hanging in the salt,
in the black sand riding the wind,
as Playa Negra outstretches its infinite arms.
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148632
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I used to be a poet, you know. /
Better, in many respects, than you.
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148694
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He wasn't sure if I was joking.
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148652
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Once there was a man who wrote in code. He was comfortable among substitutions
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148600
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Meanwhile it was four o'clock in the morning, Pacific time. Seven o'clock eastern. The cat was busy chasing imaginary mice around the hammock—at least Manuel hoped the mice were imaginary. He loaded the next digital images onto the screen. It seemed to
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1486103
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I am going to quit clicking refresh, only because it is clear nothing is happening out there. After I click refresh just one more time, that is, and then I am closing the window. After clicking one more last time. …
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148676
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Get comfortable with criticism
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148600
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a dozen girls with Encarnación's face flit past, whispering kisses along the part of my hair, tickling their hems along the cuticles of my nails.
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148696
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As I walked down to the Subway, I thought to myself that now, after the horror in Boston, everybody looks like a terrorist.
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148600
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Sora and Ciel stood before Dean Morden inside his office. It felt weird to the girls looking at him sitting behind Madam Mayweather’s desk
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148634
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Ascent/Assent
Together the horizon/
Catechism of love
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148677
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Harvey C. Hamby was drunk. Usually he held his liquor well, but tonight he was off his form. Stumbling over an ottoman, he landed on the floor in a sodden sprawl. As he fell, his left foot shot out behind him and socked Glenda Steinberg in…
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148620
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“I do not know if you can hear me, or if you can talk to me. Some people do not believe in people like you, you know, spirits, ghosts or whatever you are. I do. I know you are here because of what happened here.” I could not speak. I did not feel I could.
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148622
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My Thursday head belonged to a former Miss Brazil named Rita.
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148611
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There was no need to drive. She could travel ten miles in ten minutes. She merely had to be careful not to step on any cars or trucks.
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1486116
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I suppose it was inevitable, This crashing of souls, This recognition of possibility to create. If we were younger, We would make a baby, The ultimate act of faith. Now it has to be something else, Nothing to force a track with night feedings, …
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148663
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I looked down at Earth and imagined this porn star who’d asked for my help.
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148521
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148521
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Sit down at night and stare into the fire. Consider if Cupid is just another liar.
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148554
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I got no good hubcaps
My van is up on bricks
It's held together with duct tape
And a couple of crummy sticks
I caught the guy who did this
And tied him to a tree
I kicked him in the windpipe
And kicked him in the knee
I'm a man witho
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148532
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Michiko stood in front of Steinway Hall on West 57th Street.
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148557
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It is claimed we choose/
conditions of our servitude.
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148565
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I know someone in need of healing.
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148522
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I do not know the species of birds here. /
The two I see playing on the balcony at night /
I can never call back.
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148554
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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
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148576
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Maybe it was a trick of the gloom.
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