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“What do you want for Father's Day?” she asks. “Sex,” he says, his mouth curling at the corners, “and a bottle of Shiraz.” …
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143831
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ghosts of the previous owners who leave a trail of whispers
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143889
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a half-moon hung straight up and down
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143810
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Wile E. Coyote? A junkie strung out on bunk dope.
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143852
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The manicured lawn rolls down either side of the knoll, punctuated with flat granite plaques, the occasional bouquet of cut flowers, a smattering of faded eight-inch American flags.
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143821
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"You don't need the gun," Dean said. "Bring me a bottle of peroxide and some duct tape."
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143855
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where will we be/ when it happens?
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1438105
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If I could say only one thing more to Tony who died a month ago, there is one thing I could find to say
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143855
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In my 14 to 15 year old life in the late 50s I worked as a clean-up boy in the neighborhood butcher shop up on 5th. Ave.,
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143832
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Kerryn saved us from ourselves really. Would you be reading this had she eaten it?
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143780
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Beautiful, he thinks, as he taps the ash of his cigarette over the balcony, but this is not good enough.
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143722
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'Like poems,’ I said
she paused and nodded
her black mop.
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When we saw the window, we were impressed. It was so clean and transparent that it reminded us of a new pair of glasses, everything so crisp and clear through it. It looked on to nothing. Actually it looked on to the refridgerators and a few stoves, though most of the…
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Got something inside me
hard as nails
keeps me walking upright
ain't never failed
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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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143700
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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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143743
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" History ...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
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143754
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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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143740
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like old discarded snake skin,
dry and coarse after the bite...
immortally tortured by broken glass bottles.
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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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the lightning horse you never mounted in your inherited dream~wetter than the oceans you never traversed~will you ever ride pure abandon?
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143732
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"I'm just going to
take a power nap!"
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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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143755
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I'm not sure whetherI drink to numbthe pain or toactually feelsomething.
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143777
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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143798
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We can’t just bomb Berlin or Dresden,/
Nagasaki or Hanoi, to make things safe
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143641
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Ben was not a happy musician.
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143676
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Ross, I've been a ghost hunter for almost 10 years now and this is a place I said I WOULD NEVER NEVER EVER go to!
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143644
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people keep trying to get me/ "out of the house"./ they see fun in me, and cool in me,/ and want to spend time with me,/ and i am flattered most sincerely./
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I dream about the boy in The Neverending Story, the gate of mirrors, and the Nothing, a dark cloud that floats in the sky, takes away everything.
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