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Originally published on Six Sentences:In a family of many hushed secrets, only so many years could pass before the cracks would begin to show, and usually started with the creative girls. Though her aunt had been dead for two years, Shifra knew the cracks the family…
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He invited her in for a Martini and she graciously accepted.
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He rolls in unbidden across the stubble fields /
Old acquaintance astride a newly booming cloud/
Under sky an alien shade of strawberries whipped/
Her watch stops ticking out the rest of her/
scheduled breathing poses
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The drop is like a hangman's drop, an executioner's, but farther and longer, perhaps three or four seconds.
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He looked like a black paper doorway pasted onto a painting of summer.
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She thinks this is the place she dreamed
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At last, we learn if Blow has the cojones to fight.
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Oh sweet, sweet morning light
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The silver urn of ashes inscribed
with his unknown name.
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Two women are escorted to the desert, where they are shackled to the ground. Who are they, what have the done, and will they survive?
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A man of action would take to his rake/
but Sloth would rather watch and wait/
for snow to erase each leaf on leaf.
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“We are NOT starving!” I stated emphatically. “What ever gave you the idea that you are starving? Honestly, Annie, you are so melodramatic. You have food in front of you right now, don’t you?’ I said pointing to her plate of potatoes and so
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For weeks I hadn’t been able to think straight, waiting to lay vision on those majestic, swooning breasts.
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we all die from the bottom up
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Artie Shaw gave Ava Gardner a reading list in preparation for their honeymoon that included The Brothers Karamazov, The Origin of the Species, Das Kapital and The Magic Mountain.
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I told her I didn't love her. She said love wasn't important; she wanted to marry a man she could respect.
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Q:What made you want to be a person who rides a train?
A:As soon as I learned there was such a thing, I wanted to be one.
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She's an obese woman whose clothes don't fit: shirts that ride up too high her belly hanging out her pants suctioned to her strangely pegged legs. Her ballooned cheeks are always chapped pink her lips little slivers peeled back over small beige teeth like…
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I advertised in the local paper for a model.
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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.
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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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Despite the newly bright bricks and the working clock, Cassie couldn't help but take a deep breath before entering King Street Station. She had always tried to hold her breath when her family cut through it on the way to Mariners games but had never succeeded, not…
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in White Heat
there’s a character
who reads lips
using a mirror to see
the mouths of prisoners
in other cells
that’s how I feel
when I talk
with you
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gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour
and just getting under way
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The lawyer is having a party the next weekend.... He's celebrating because he won a court case to have his alimony reduced.
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