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I pat my pocket to make sure everything’s in order; a Starbucks blueberry scone to sustain me, a $50 Brooks Brothers gift card from my in-laws, and my “piece”–a fully-charged BlackBerry handheld device.
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146000
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Lottie was a slim, fine looking woman. But Dale thought her breast implants were the worst case of overkill he had ever seen.
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146040
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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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146010
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It's saying, "It feels as if you've given me your old, your tired and your poor. I feel much older than the years you've logged."
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146094
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I’m not / going to change you I /promise
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146052
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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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146050
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"The Chinese don't have no Mardy Grah, bitch."
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146064
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and coughed its grey net over the candle lit world outside. Birds of an arrow sprang into thin air and disappeared over the hills in a quick shortness of zoom-breath-- like a stiffened branch snapping . It's cold. There're …
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146032
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"I'm just going to
take a power nap!"
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146023
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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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146000
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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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146055
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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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146065
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Maybe they considered themselves beyond redemption, or maybe they couldn't sit for that long.
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146031
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It was the first warm day of a late-arriving spring. Ben was sitting in his divorce lawyer’s office on Maiden Lane in lower Manhattan.
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146011
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I knew we were going to fail. The night we met, when we got out of the car, I dropped my green glove in that puddle, you picked it up but it was ruined. That set the precedent for our whole life together. You can't look at me anymore. My cigarette…
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146042
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Last night we slept with books in the bed.
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It comes to me at night, the monster. I don't even realize it's in the room until I hear it breathing behind me. It reaches out its hands and places them on my shoulders. Its fingers are furry and soft, but strong. They grasp the muscles on either side of my neck, and I…
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1460105
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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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146023
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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.
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145932
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I am not responsible for any nightmares this piece may cause for all you mice lovers!
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145982
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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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145911
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Max sighed. Solving for x was boring, so mind numbingly boring that he didn't notice the flickering blue light hovering in his room. It crackled and popped, growing until a shimmering rectangle stretched from floor to ceiling.A hand pushed out from the rectangle, and a…
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145983
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After oh so many hours
the eyes could only close
only to view a Ritz cracker
marching on a nose
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145921
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...to know they are not alone
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145974
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The marble, it's just there.
I can't explain
how it got there
(or when),
all I know
is that everything
is in that marble.
By "everything,"
I mean every
thing. Your breakfast?
It's there.
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145900
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Let me guess. You're reading this because it's dark or there's no surf or you're at work dreaming about surf or you're broken in some way that prevents you from surfing. If I'm right, you depraved little human, then you have come to the right place. Here we…
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145932
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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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145900
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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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145932
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I don't mind being dead. It's ok. Really. I've discovered a whole new way of being based on non-being. What else can you do? I like being invisible. I like groaning and rattling chains. I used to be a writer. Still am. In fact, it might be more accurate to say that…
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