1347 9 8
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6. to register for the draft
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134732
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A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
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1347159
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They were discussing reincarnation,
what animals they would come back as.
"I'd be a vole," Cranshaw said. Is a vole
even an animal? Connie asked.
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134753
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Any form of exertion would defile what we are trying to do
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134700
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In the state that the stars fell on,
Love and I stumbled upon bits of God
where he forgot sky and moon, too.
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1347165
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Hey, Y'all! Like I told y'all, I checked myself into this what you call a “ facebook Rehab Clinic” up here just about 40 miles outside of Kalispell, Montana in a little town called Gulag. I quit MySpace and that got me a reduced rate. Things are…
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134755
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In an authentic Irish pub in Las Vegas where over much crowd noise the three of us are discussing Yeats, Joyce and Lady Gregory. We’re in an Irish pub after all, plus the fact we’re literature profs attending a Vegas academic conference.
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13471511
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She was not the usual member of the band, not the girl nextdoor, not next to any door, not a regular housekeeper or woman. She was a ditch digger, a pied, circular piper, a mouse hugger.
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134773
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At last, we learn if Blow has the cojones to fight.
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134798
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We can’t just bomb Berlin or Dresden,/
Nagasaki or Hanoi, to make things safe
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134641
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Ben was not a happy musician.
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134640
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No one commented on her altered appearance, although Will in Accounts said he quite liked her hair like that, so she assumed that no one could see the snakes. But she still felt self-conscious, exposed. She had to remember not to talk to them when she was…
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134686
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The first inkling that I might be in love with Josie came at our high school senior day outing at, oh, what's its name, state park. I forgot, but it doesn't matter. She smiled, did a little wave and stepped away from her friends, lifted her sundress a little to keep it dry,…
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134631
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Esmée sat alone at a table on the terrace at Marina Jack’s in Sarasota. She had been there ten minutes and no waitress had approached her.
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134654
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She is alone in the ocean
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134652
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We talk of his time in the jungle.
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134698
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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.
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134642
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Feeding you a taste of croissant
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134610
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"Maybe…" he began searching for some comforting wisdom. "Maybe it's like this. Husbands live for their wives. Mothers live for their children. And children...well...until they're husbands or wives, they live for themselves."
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134684
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It was cold and clammy, but then it got worse. Far worse. Any opportunity to celebrate the unity and harmony of tolerance was soon cancelled.
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134641
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When I was young I bowed with such forgotten politeness, a young salesman, enchanting, in the silken trades. But I remembered the sun also when it was in Hades, which had forgotten to set, or to rise.
Peace, also, dangled there by the neck. Such a pre
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134621
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Under a conspiratorial moon… the shovel my silent partner… organ-less torso to the worms.
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134552
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Once there was a man who wrote in code. He was comfortable among substitutions
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134584
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She loves you when your words leave her dirty, semi-transparent, at times, overexposed.
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134511
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1. On the morning of her eighteenth birthday, Eve woke to find herself transformed into a gigantic chess piece made of zeros and ones.2. Eve gazed so long at her smartphone that she found herself falling into it.3. She fell for a time that may have been short or long or…
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134500
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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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134563
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I wear boots over bare legs feigning ignorance
To the coming storms, the snow the ice the cold
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134511
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You’re listening to Smooth FM, taking you from the darkest hours to the start of a brand new day.
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13451012
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All the things that are his.
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134553
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He looked like a black paper doorway pasted onto a painting of summer.
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