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The blood is memorable/
as is the copper taste of that/
momentary certainty of lockjaw.
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144253
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Oh my god - A plagiarizing pony - I know someone must have said that before
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144233
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Nearly everyone knows of that celebrated poet’s story coming down to us from classical Greek mythology: the tragic tale of Orpheus and his descent into the underworld to rescue his beloved Eurydice. Well, there’s a much lesser known story of a legendary 7
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144244
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We'll all face the raging river, some sooner than others.
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144295
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We got a sandwich at Mr. Pickle's, but they cut the sandwich in the plastic. Plastic wrap.
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144241
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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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144241
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Describe my origami, the shape of a gun or a limp dick, or maybe a flower.
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144254
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Last night as a duration spent hovering in electronic media-space.
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144233
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144221
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She continued to cooperate with a city council agenda dominated by globalized privatization
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144232
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Sebastian and Janice had been a natural match. They sought to deny this at first because a recovery assistance program was not a place to forge intimate relationships. It worked out wonderfully in Hollywood, but Hollywood, as everyone knew, was just a facade. So…
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144232
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...the relatives didn't seem nearly as fucked up as she thought they would be considering...
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1442108
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He knows I talk to angels, what he would call angels. I don’t talk to him.
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144121
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Anatoly Gringovitch sat in the police car returning him to the Opera House.
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144110
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The doctors said, when she was born, that the gills would eventually fade away on their own. Nothing to fear, they said; no more unusual than the rare child born with a tail, or a dense pelt of fur, or a single sharp tooth jutting from its new pink gums.
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144152
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She had just done it in the backseat with the man she decided would be her father. Or maybe it was the cast of his eyes under the dim bar lights. Maybe she insisted that this had to be done, to relive the night under the stars, under a dented roof of a station…
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144100
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Bruce Springsteen begins singing from the loud speaker he was bruised and battered and couldn’t tell what he felt.
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144142
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The rain is filling up my shoes,
I can’t see
through my glasses,
Rain all inside me.
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1441199
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One moustache hair at moustache level on a filmy bathroom mirror. A red velvet spread on a big round bed. Dear Ma: We saw a bearded lady.
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144100
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Oh, you aren't going to lecture us, for heaven's sake?
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144167
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I love you because your eyes are both crossed
When you do it, because you’re focused
On the inside of the universe
I love you because
You’re on a roller coaster
Through life
And I can ride along
For the thrill of it
I love you because
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1441118
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At the conference her boss showed off his knowledge of wines.
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144120
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I can’t deny you’re beautiful, though it’s unsure how many of your defects are fudged by my myopia.
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144134
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But the restaurants put pig in every little dish. You couldn't eat there without encountering some portion of pig. It was in everything, including the cabbage. Who puts pig in the cabbage? I'm asking you. And in the dumplings too. For God's sake, give it
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144100
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Even the old medicine woman seemed to grin with a perverted sort of understanding when she opened the door to find Lys waiting outside. She was comfortable nowhere and ready to flee at any moment.
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1441118
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He picked at his food. The teen-aged boys gnawed the bones. The conversation was nothing he was interested in. Chitchat and family jokes.
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144120
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He draped the sheet over her body. Blood spotted the fabric, rose petals on snow.He left the pistol, but pocketed the first edition she'd signed. Part of his fee.In the park, he ditched the glasses, fake mustache, and anorak before making the call.The publisher called an…
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