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Conjure calamity and calamity comes.
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146921
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My third Rule of Success—and I may not have these in exactly the right order–is always get a pre-nup!
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146832
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a dim wood-paneled stair leading to the ladies’ rooms, candle-lit.
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146876
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Safe does not ride horses at sunsetSnorkel in MolokaiRaft down a swollen river.It does not steal kisses in a darkened theaterTouch the inside of a thigh under a restaurant table.Safe does not declare war.It chooses dinner every night at sixMass every SundayConfession once a…
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146885
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Love me like a crutch
Love me when I'm strong
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146811
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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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146841
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You can't always be everything
you were expected to be
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146832
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The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the Magazine of the Museum of Everything
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146811
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we all die from the bottom up
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146844
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The bartender kept looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar. “Everyone in Hollywood is an actor,” Doc said.
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146823
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say no / to me / and devastate me / and I will take it / as god's will / to drown me / in a vat / of my own / entrails
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146855
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There are certain items in the sink that are giving me an anxious feeling in my stomach.
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146877
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I remember the first & only time I parachuted it was 1964 my 16th birthday a rite of passage if you will from the old man an aerospace engineer & former WWII B24 bomber pilot I practice-jumped from oil barrels taught how to fall back then when the time came…
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1468103
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I am confused by your new paper-doll look, btw. Could you please look regular again by Thursday?
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1468107
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The Tea Party member was married but cuter. He worked as a caulker, a tub and basin man.
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146845
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Today I’m feeling crabby and haggard and technology makes it easy to get to the point.
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146833
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The leaves/
seek reunion with the ground//
and leave the oak tree naked/
in December’s cold.
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146853
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The mother, a pony-tailed beauty, thinks she looks fat in her
new blue-checked pedal pushers and white blouse tied
under her full breasts— in the latest style.
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146823
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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.
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146732
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I am not responsible for any nightmares this piece may cause for all you mice lovers!
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146721
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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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146701
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[This story definitely WON'T be appearing in this month's "Alfred Hitchock's Mystery Magazine"!]
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146721
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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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146721
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I want the luxury of hearing other people who disagree with me tell me why I’m an asshole!
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146776
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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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146782
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She wore no bra. As she jammed the truck into park and pushed against the heavy door, he saw the points of her nipples against her dress. Ice filled his belly, the most beautiful pink-colored ice.
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146751
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“There are so few uses for Crisco, that to keep it in the house seems an unnecessary temptation,” said my health teacher.
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146764
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The heart would have unnatural reverence, exalted, bursting with evil, rolling in sloth, if it did not at once reveal its innocence. I saw you again, on the morning of the sun. It was you, or your double, or a son you might have had. Your beautiful bloo
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146711
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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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