1558 3 2
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I used to be a poet, you know. /
Better, in many respects, than you.
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155833
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For me, it was that kind of moment. I got to come back. I had been here before and now, well now, I could come back. I had a chance to do it all again, bigger, better and well, just better. I hoped I could remember all that I learned the first time.
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155873
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the sun is quiet like the mountains,
the birds except for their wings
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155822
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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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155831
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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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155800
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We trade broken phrases of English, Arabic...
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155866
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I feel his hand on my face, feel it brush past my lips, and I taste my sister's blood.
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15582110
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I approached him slowly. His voice was soft and raspy. He said, "Kneel down my son, I've been expecting you."
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1558128
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the two become one where/
all things end,
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155800
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Won't speak a word against 'em. Car trunk stunk like bad chicken long after, but I won't speak a word against 'em.
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155842
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I was in life, in my dream. I was feeling around underneath your clothing. My fingers were shining in the underwater afterlife of memory, searching for those lovely nipple-sized mollusks. I lived in a land somewhere between the past and the future. Now
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155833
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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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155821
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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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155712
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In today’s print-on-demand and digital world, there are unlimited avenues for aspiring writers to circulate their work, but deregulation and limitlessness often leads to chaos. Writers are more inclined to release unpolished work that fails to rise to the
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155741
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When I came back from California the second time, in the summer of 1965, I was the first around our town to wear my hair long, influenced by the Beatles. And I bought a bunch of blue caps that everyone in our gang wore, with the number “69” sown on
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1557105
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The washing machine at home was broken. It was an old leaky Maytag. A discouraging mess—twisted panties, sky-blue jeans, and an old lover or two or three floating downstream (the reverse of spawning salmon). Each man was slightly drowned,…
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155722
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Later, my daughter told me that she hadn't been scared because as I lay on the ground unconscious I continued to laugh, gradually relaxing into a big smile as I came around a minute later.
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155720
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The story of a second, a stone, and an android -- all curiously interrelated and all, coincidentally, named Gretchen
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155710
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Even before I tap on the door I know I am being watched with one eye. My footsteps have surely given me away. A swift tug on it reveals her to me—half of her, that is, and I slink past the threshold, to her. From her eyes I see that she has…
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155740
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Then it started extruding tendrils and tying them all into intricate knots.
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155700
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The streets were filled with animals of the forest. All in a panic trying to find a direction. Mixed among them were members of various Clans that lived in the forest.
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155751
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The clip-clopping of footsteps now echoes from the opposite end of the alleyway, and as you turn to face the figure who appears behind you, the figure wearing a fierce Noh-drama mask, you determine that this time you will enlist its aid in decoding this r
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155754
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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
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155721
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Naomi hadn't expected them to come in such a big box. When the UPS man tried to hand it to her, she told him there must be some mistake, but then he pointed to her name¾NAOMI BROWN¾right there on the top. When she finally got off all that tape, she had another…
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155765
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To listen is to feel embodied reason//
sing and dance with consummate grace
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155753
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He looked like a black paper doorway pasted onto a painting of summer.
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155764
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I woke up to the humming
of an empty space in the shape of a sweatshirt,
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1557117
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You are a warm winter
Despite the presence of snow
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155787
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155700
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It was unusual, a feeling of déjà vu waft in the air. However, this was completely new to them. Mayumi gripped her shoulders as Emi’s lips moved trying to ease her fear. Mayumi did not understand what this stuff was.
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