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Have you heard this yet? The daughter flew home to care for the mother, whose pump is still tick ticking—though now with aid—which means she leaves the kitchen when the microwave clicks on.
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146966
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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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146910
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Another noise, softer than the first: swish, thud. You are still. The house is very loud tonight.
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146953
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Any form of exertion would defile what we are trying to do
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1469118
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At the conference her boss showed off his knowledge of wines.
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146984
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It was cold and clammy, but then it got worse. Far worse. Any opportunity to celebrate the unity and harmony of tolerance was soon cancelled.
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146954
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We sat up in bed. It's two o'clock in the morning. Blinding circular flashlight beams probe through the half pulled shades. Magnified black silhouettes of men's torsos lumber back and forth in the yard. We are in a fishbowl and being invaded.
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146921
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—Can you handle a threesome? said Isabella.
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146944
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Lying on a high seat in the south study, this is what I see:
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146943
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Nights this husband returned home still hungry sometimes, even for her forearms against his own
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146900
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I'm getting self-righteous here, Dear Reader . . . [hey! wait a second! this is my diary! what are you doing, looking at it, dude! Hit the road! Scram! Vamoose!]
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146964
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I woke up to the humming
of an empty space in the shape of a sweatshirt,
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146942
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He brought me flowers once, three wilted carnations I put in water, though the sight of them made me uneasy. He brought me pictures once, too, of three sisters—ten, twelve, fourteen—straddling dirt bikes. He touched my shoulder once, as I edited pictures …
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146911
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It matters little who thought of it first, what mattered was the schism. Or, to be more accurate, those on the opposite sides of the schism. And, of course, you are a part of this, dear reader. You are of one side or the other.
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146931
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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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146801
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Galloping people, tangled in ballets of hot love, weaving in and out, making a canvas of it.
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146831
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No excerpts for you. Next!
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146886
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It was your present world that seemed more than mad to me. Your polished stiff brown shoes that always squeaked like mice, while the latest rude Bombers bubbled up in their comfortable Dart-board garages like apple pies…
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146830
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Connor didn't bother to wait in the line of busy professionals, opting to cut in front of the sign that announced "Line Forms At Other End."
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146855
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On the coldest day of the year, the weather man walks back from the measurement booth across a snowed-over plain, solid as cement and tinted with the pale yellow glow of the northern lights.
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146821
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She heard the quick footsteps and knew where they were headed. Running down the hall she knew she “only had 1 hour left and there was no time to waste”.
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146811
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He roared back at her, shaking his empty gun in his right hand, waving his left hand in the air. “I am George Burnett, esquire, late of Balliol College, Oxford! I am a hunter, a killer of pigs! I do not fear you, bear; take the pig and be content!”
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146854
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this is where we end --
the exorbitant eye of forgotten days.
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146873
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Sometimes you have to go wild; you have just to go fucking nuts. You do.
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1468103
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Words are looking ever so strange today
like a hole in space
a wind in a cloud
a face superimposed over a mountain
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1468116
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fanned lashes on rouged cheek
a glamorous sea creature
in violet perfume
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146872
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That streetcar named Desire, it don't hardly stop for me no more. Leastwise not while I'm awake, and I don't have to be telling no nosy aides why I make them noises in my sleep.
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146834
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Ascent/Assent
Together the horizon/
Catechism of love
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146841
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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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