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Every morning when he wakes, he lies in bed and waits for one of his toes to twitch or spasm; the moment he feels one of them thrust forward, he gains courage to test his legs. He grimaces either way: one more day of walking, one more day until loss, one more trip to the…
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Last night as a duration spent hovering in electronic media-space.
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The year begins well here
with much needed rain
and tee-shirt temperatures.
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Last night we slept with books in the bed.
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Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.
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There were guitar players, and as happens with talent sometimes, the guitar players were too talented. There could not be places for all of them in a single rock band.
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Rome and Carthage wage war as Hannibal crosses the Alps and invades Italy. With him, he brings an army of barbarian hordes hellbent on reducing Rome to ash. For one young Roman soldier, Gaius, he is trapped between his loyalties to the republic, and to hi
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My grandfather rode with the Czar’s army. He was abducted from a village in Austria, trained to pillage and drink, plunder and rape, and ride the best horses that could be had. They were given the best vodka and the sharpest swords. They were all just b
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A woman who is, say, a culinary arts champion or an heiress devoted to literature such as Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman) or Peggy Guggenheim might be able to turn me on, turn me out, turn me around.
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And, if you look real close, you see there’s a bullet hole next to his left ear. A stray one went past his head and straight through Santa’s heart.
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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
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Gert sat in the car and wiped at the inside of the window while the defroster blasted at full strength. The shards and slivers of ice that networked across the windshield were just thick enough to hinder visibility. Bane wrenched the door open and shoved
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your words that came crashing over me/
so cold the clear shock was like salt water
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That is a pretty damning statement.
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we all die from the bottom up
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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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the stars might be the audience or they might not be
if the beat sits right next to me and hugs me nasty
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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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She thinks this is the place she dreamed
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Magdalena White Herrington praised the lucky stars who’d sent her the Klonakilty ghosts.
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Once there was a man who wrote in code. He was comfortable among substitutions
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We were offered mannequins that had pubic hair that grew and swirled, and could visit like a pet, and sit in your lap
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The spectacle of weather/
on the prairies approaches.
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As I gripped the wheel and stared at the expanse above my head, my compass spun wildly. Something wasn't quite right
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Love me like a crutch
Love me when I'm strong
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sometimes it's hard/ to leave the house in the morning/ when bed is so comfortable/ and you're so far away.
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His shirts he hangs on the back of the chair, one on top the other so they won't wrinkle.
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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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She buried her secrets in a bowl of brownie mix....
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