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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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1492109
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My student assistant was a comely young woman. A freckle faced blonde. She was from Ohio.
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149220
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Ruth carries always a small bottle of nitroglycerin; and tissues, wads of tissues; two Tums (for calcium, she tells me)...
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149286
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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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149252
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149262
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your light is gonna
last me
through the week
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149200
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He then spent his walk home to his single apartment spitting up various textures of red, combinations of cherry and blood mostly.
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149273
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I experience a presence when walking through the forest . . .
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149287
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149200
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The county sent two crews, one to get Mr. Meyers, the old shut-in, tall and affable, but quiet and bent, like a crooked coat rack with a porkpie atop, the other for his dog, an english setter whom he shadowed like a familiar. I say he was the familiar and
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149211
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- Never in pain and distance -
Frown on these moments,
With bitterness and vain
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149221
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Neither you nor I is old enough, of course,
to remember that America’s most
popular athlete once was a horse.
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149243
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—Strip down to your shorts. Put on this gown, open to the rear.
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149200
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Ayane took another look of the area and it was large warehouse. A loud thud vibrated outside.
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149100
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If I remember him at all it’s because I decided not to flunk him so he could graduate. I had this theory that teachers should be bound by the same oath as doctors, First, do no harm.
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149110
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Flicking through the sheets on her clipboard, Evelyn double checked the address with the mismatched numbers on the letterbox. Its mouth was a rusty, gaping grin like it had lost its dentures.
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149142
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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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149144
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So for now, let the snow fall, but
let it fall gently,
each flake as a soft piano note
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149102
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We’d told her that Kasey waitressed. We talked about it a lot, trying to figure something out. I wanted to be honest with her. Kasey said she was too young to understand. I said that was why honesty wouldn’t hurt anything. Kasey said what about later.
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149120
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My brother Herb married his high school sweetheart right after completing college. This was a girl named Beryl, whom he'd met originally in Mr. Reinert's marching band at York High School in Elmhurst. I remember one day in particular in the middle of the
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149122
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Ok American dogs. Here my first story I wrote when I only two days old! Then evil moderator delete me and story go away. Now I three days old. I try to remember.
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149131
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The trouble with alarm clocks is naturally that they are miserable. And their curse is that their misery is useful: we employ them because we want to get away from them. But we would never have one as a friend.
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149120
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Overnight Robbie had lost his youth. But since he was still only nine and his arm looked like a nine-year-old's arm, people didn't notice much at first, until he tried running. Or if he was introduced, and they went to shake his hand. He immediately lea
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149142
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Better not hand me that iPhone. I'll look up every damned thing in it.
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1490146
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So many dreams I need to visit, though
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149044
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I gave you two daughters.
I gave you four grandchildren.
I'm done.
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1490158
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We are the same shits/
we were in the Bronze Age
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149020
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Stay tuned for my next short - Candle Smoke Wishes - COMING SOON ON A MONITOR NEAR YOU!!
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149000
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He woke up four hours later in his car in his garage with the worst headache of his life. He lurched out of the car and kicked over a basket of basil as he toddled towards the door to the house. He stopped and scooped the spilled basil back into the baske
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