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Jane knew what to do
when she heard murmurs in the ceiling,
knew what to do when she struck out on the moor.
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137730
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Every town has one. Or one at the very least...
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137752
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At 11 pm, it is 87 degrees and I sit in front of the air conditioner, eating oatmeal. The oats aren't soft enough, but it is sugary and fills me. Outside, the city hovers at the edge of a brown out, people sweating hopelessly inside small boxes. In Utah, it was cold…
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Marcy was not herself today, her mother said when the school called. She was under the weather and she could not play with the other children. Marcy's mother began to suspect that her daughter was not herself very early on that day. Walking up the stairs Dolores…
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137765
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I know someone in need of healing.
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137784
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Suddenly something clicked.
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137721
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At eight o' clock: as, drawn by many bells, The patchwork congregation lopes and stalks, To churches far from serenade of shells To storms, we leave behind the windblown walks, And sails of youth, to glide through liquid hells, A temporal…
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137755
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“If your work is good you will get published. Just keep at it."
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137765
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I left the train, still going nowhere, but in a hurry.
Still a boy, but trapped in a suit.
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137741
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But tonight
while your finger
glides across
the glossy pages
of Popular Science
I hold a séance
for the Holy Spirit
in utter seriousness
among the book clutter
and crumpled manifestos
in the basement
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137741
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I'm in the boardroom, downtown in San Francisco. I don't even remember showing up for work today. I hope they fire me, just like they fired Bill. Well not exactly like that, that was awful. He was caught downloading a phenomenal amount of…
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137754
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Uzma dashes up the stairs ahead of me . . .
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137700
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The first apartment Troy and Lynn lived in was managed by an alcoholic former army officer, who lived in the complex with his wife and teenage daughter. He was a lush who didn't do much in the way of management. Lynn had barely noticed him before Troy moved in with her.…
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137700
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Early in the morning
I wanted to send you something
for when you wake;
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I didn't feel when you cut out my spine I'd been throwing up all night couldn't even smell the rust …
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The Tea Party member was married but cuter. He worked as a caulker, a tub and basin man.
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137720
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Now it's late. I am hanging upside down from a rope coiled around my crushed left ankle, the pain too sharp to be really felt, as the excess blood to my head makes my thoughts fuzzy. I am almost two meters from the rock face, thirty-five hundred meters above sea-level, the…
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137763
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I looked down at Earth and imagined this porn star who’d asked for my help.
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1376109
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My student assistant was a comely young woman. A freckle faced blonde. She was from Ohio.
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137610
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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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137652
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Have you ever seen a body of words give birth to a paragraph? I won't lie. It's a little gross. But quite moving. First there is the biology of reproduction. A blackbird living in an electric guitar, for instance, and its inexplicable urge to mate with an elephant.…
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You stretch my heart / in sacred ways
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137621
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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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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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137686
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At some point we all reach the end point/
of something. Something important/
if only to our fragile self esteem.
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137600
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[WE'LL LET *YOU* BE THE JUDGE!]
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137666
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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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137664
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In a field of barley, I see you, ...
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137643
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And he was wearing a mask. Gorilla mask over his gorilla face.
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