1503 2 1
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Sit down at night and stare into the fire. Consider if Cupid is just another liar.
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1503 4 3
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Last night, in a tavern called Wits End, we dropped quarters into a console, sized and shaped like an old TV.
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1503 5 0
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"And then I, and I believe,
I alone, saw
this small child
run..."
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1503 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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1503 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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1503 3 3
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Who hasn’t at some point of the day wanted to dredge up everything in your pocket just to see what it is.
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1503 5 1
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There was no provision for keeping the post on the door, but I did not have the fingernails to pry it off.
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1503 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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1503 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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1503 1 1
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The Bird King is trapped behind the mirrors. Sometimes you'll see a hand, a wing, fluttering in a dark space. You may even see his breath, a pulse of mist in a corner of the glass. But don't ever smash his silvered prison. Don't ever let him out and into the world.*****O…
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1503 1 1
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Where the skin had grazed, shredded by the coarse gravel to form scabs, fascinated Jack. It reminded him of his youth and his own grazes, scratches and stitches. As a boy he imagined scabs were rough foundations of igneous rock, blood like lava pouring th
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1503 5 3
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I'm gonna write about this after...It'll either be a tale of pain or pleasure hopefully the latterI don't understand how this workswhy sometimes I want to hide from myself other times I can just give in, fully,and everything isohsoheightenedI want it to be beautifuland…
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1503 10 8
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That TV you got me? Ruined. And the ionizer fan? Ruined too. All your clothes you left over here, all my work scrubs and weekend dresses too, soaked with that river stink water. I kept thinking bout all the dead creatures.
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1503 5 3
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And your daughter, Mrs. P, and your daughter Mrs. Q, underwater, underwater in the old swimming hole, in the backyard swimming pool. “They’ve all got children there.” La la.
Yet when I’m naked, when I enter with my own body the mirror, the small sha
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1502 6 4
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They made posters and hung them everywhere. With the passing days she became the photograph at its center: hair always in the same ponytail; always with the same smile
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1502 2 2
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You have such a complicated mind /
for refusing to believe in God /
just like any damned liberal /
whose fingerprints /
crowd the faces of a thousand /
dollar bills /
being passed around your great nation...
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1502 6 5
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I know someone in need of healing.
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1502 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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1502 6 4
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After the Tokyo experience, Frank and Michiko decided that when she went on extended tours, Frank would accompany her.
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1502 6 6
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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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1502 0 0
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The young man pulls out his wallet, grabs a couple of bills and stops short of handing them to the bedraggled man. “So how do I know you’re not going to go out and buy some crack with this money?”
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1502 0 0
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You shine brightest under a starlit skyThe moon reflects your beautyAs the wind sings your name sweetlyIt was under the heavens that we promised togetherThat I'll hold your hand and you'll be mine forever... You glow brightest when the sun is at its highestYour radiant…
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1502 6 2
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1502 5 3
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No girl hits hard enough.
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1502 11 8
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1502 2 0
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Night became day and back again in the span of a heartbeat, the familiar strangeness of the sudden change stinging like dust in the eye.
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1502 9 5
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1502 9 8
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You snore and the house is safe again.
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1502 11 7
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You are a warm winter
Despite the presence of snow
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1502 2 1
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She continued to cooperate with a city council agenda dominated by globalized privatization
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