1508 11 8
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“Just how many different animals try to hide their nakedness?” “Only one. And that'd be us, idiot.”, Twinkle responded. “Then, why don't we mind sometimes showing our bodies?”, she then asked. Twinkle could see it was going to be another…
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1508 15 10
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in which a man who is bored with years of retirement poses a threat to himself and others
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1508 5 4
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this is where we end --
the exorbitant eye of forgotten days.
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1508 6 4
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In a field of barley, I see you, ...
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1508 0 0
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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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1508 7 8
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In and out of morphine dreams, he flies through the unfinished roof of Illinois sky. Below, matchbox-sized farm machines. A silo becomes his father's thermos, the silver-capped tower from which he stole sips at ten, his first secret. Back …
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1508 10 8
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The first night I met her we slow danced to George Strait songs for most of the evening and when we took a break, our talking went warm and well as we sat eating hot dogs and sipping beers until she dropped a couple of bombs, first, telling me she was married and then, that…
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1508 3 2
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I am useless. A freak. Different. They all hate me now. All except you, of course. You will never leave me. Never. I'd kill them all if I could. Every single one. But twenty-four, that's a lot even for me. I'm so sick of the cliques; the special groups and hastily strung…
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1508 4 1
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Zusman snored on the sofa as Motel gathered his belongings in the dark. He moved quietly as had become his custom in the mornings. Initially he had tried not to wake his nephew on his way to work in the…
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1508 4 1
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To rival the professor in his knowledge of various body parts is impossible ...
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1507 2 1
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The Gropers of Prague were there, all around us, in spirit if not in fact. Was it KGB? Was it a ghost from my past? Or my own hand?
Stop guessing. It was Einstein himself. The KGB had taken him into custody somehow, though by what authority? All the
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1507 0 0
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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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1507 5 0
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"And then I, and I believe,
I alone, saw
this small child
run..."
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1507 3 1
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1507 16 9
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The blood is memorable/
as is the copper taste of that/
momentary certainty of lockjaw.
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1507 9 7
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Jeanne and I were married for eight years. I never knew her.
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1507 2 1
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Vietnam, Tet, and beaucoup Charlie
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1507 15 7
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Her voice gets screechy as she talks of the boy he was caught fondling in the bathroom of a bowling alley. The worst part: the dumb schmuck doesn’t even bowl.
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1507 25 12
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1507 3 1
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I want to read a story that ends unhappily ever after: one where the bad guy wins and no one gets the girl.
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1507 6 0
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The Star Trek marathon ends, and he flips channels. An episode of Full House is on. The cheesy plot lines and attractive women (specifically, DJ Tanner in the late seasons) have become a freakish comfort.
In today's episode, the Tanners are baby sitt
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1507 0 0
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My eyes don’t close but hers are shut tight, and something inside tells me that to this girl, I could be absolutely anyone.
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1507 5 1
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It’s as she reaches into the fridge for the carton of half-and-half with the grainy waxy photo of the little girl—Last Seen 10/2/06—that the memory surfaces:
“Hey. That’s mine.”
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1506 1 1
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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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1506 10 5
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an engine stalls out
in the parking lot
the driver
tears her skirt
coming through the door
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1506 10 7
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My blood has turned to flour I've been in Babylon too long My heart was singed by fire But it's drowning in my song We raised a prayer to Mary We had to take our share We took our places in the ferry But we didn't pay the fare And we don't know…
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1506 5 2
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We talk of his time in the jungle.
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1506 13 12
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My wife, Sheila, inadvertently clicked my e-mail address, too, when she sent her reply back to him and I read her poet friend's message that her love opened the window of his heart and she replied that his words were knocks that opened the door to her being, then I stood…
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1506 3 3
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“Sandy likes the way Bob spanks, when he’s done she gives him thanks."
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1506 6 4
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She stiffens and blusters and roars
Not like a storm,
Not like a lion.
Like a badger, caught in the steel jaws of a trap.
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