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ghosts of the previous owners who leave a trail of whispers
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149832
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"Sometimes things just don’t go as planned. It doesn’t mean anyone is to blame - It just is."
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149800
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Grayson Warren is living the American Dream: a 15-year career as a city cop, a great wife and two kids. And then one day his dream turns into a nightmare.
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149821
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they flew down the slopes
with her holding on
for all she was worth
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149895
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"Possible candidates for reading to a crowd"
the subject line of the email to myself read.
You see, writing can be hard -
or writing can be easy.
But writing for a crowd you'll see is something else entirely.
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149851
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A dead deer on the side of the road and the older boys not listening to her as they stab its eye with a stick.
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149876
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in a willow garden lush shade/drapes dark the young woman's small house/with the lone window, the white door . . .
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149821
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Only fragments of their lives survive, like broken Sapphos. I have known them, alleged killer of themselves for the love of a man., but we know this is an invention. The leader of a whole guild of girls, who wrote 7 books of poems. What happened to them
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1498135
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The year begins well here
with much needed rain
and tee-shirt temperatures.
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149875
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I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…
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149855
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where will we be/ when it happens?
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149841
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When I was younger, I tried very hard to be myself, but it never worked. I'd close my eyes, wait a beat, open them and slowly bring them into focus. This is the new me, the only me. Never worked, not once. It could only last a minute or two, so I…
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149752
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Don’t forget, I’ve watched the evil you’ve done to the lawn for years, not to mention the chaos you’ve made of the woodshed. Don’t you remember me showing you how to properly stack the wood?
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149721
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The kitchen is full of old girlfriends. I avoid them. They are munching on cheddar and sharing stories I'm sure I don't want to hear.
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149740
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One could count fifty moons hanging in the sky, in rows and columns of smaller skies.
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14971012
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All the things that are his.
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149720
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Half past six; already, through the gloom Saltwater flourish sifts from wharfs that ply Their play like girls that haunt the midnight's womb, As far it seems as walks of Barbary. Within the bar, French waitresses and sots Play dice with time awhile and rub…
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149701
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Laurel's new bike is powder blue, with silver tassels on the handle bars. Jenny's mouth actually waters at the sight of it, as though it were a fresh loaf of bread or a perfect, juicy orange. “You can ride it if you want,” Laurel…
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149754
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I am i said pursued by the feeling of being watched.You are she said -- by yourself. As in a dream, a dream you know you're dreaming. Which changes nothing.We are she said watching from the mezzanine, half-above, at once a part and apart.
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149777
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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149696
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They make you work
For your pizza in Italy
You have to slice it yourself
While wearing a gas mask
To ward off the cigarette smoke
From every neighboring table
While chasing away the
Mosquitos and the pigeons
The flies and the gypsy r
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1496116
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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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149641
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Ben was not a happy musician.
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149611
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But the profligate are blameless now
Those who conflate sex and love the way
dumber animals mistake heat for light
have moved freely back to some primal zone
where if I’m felt to be contradictory to the
surroundings it’s because I wanted t
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14961911
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Culture gives what it feels you deserve/
in the cul-de-sac of your time and place.
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149664
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you tell
a stranger's story...
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149654
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A study found that in bat species noted for female monogamy male bats have small testes and big brains, while in species noted for female promiscuity males have testicles five times as big, but smaller brains.
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149650
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"The Chinese don't have no Mardy Grah, bitch."
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149631
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the vigilance that informs a parent's every hour had momentarily lapsed
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149664
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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.
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