102340
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Over the years, Morgana had grown. She was so much more than what Xavier remembered. So much different. She had an astute, almost shrewd air about her. She didn't seem nearly as fragile as he had left her. No, she had an eye out for herself now.…
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102343
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" History ...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
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102355
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Perdita's confusing profusion of parts makes it impossible to know which way up she goes.She flutters beneath the camera's shuttered stare, …
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102311
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I hand one of them the octopus and run out of the room.
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102301
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the things we will accomplish, the things we will leave to others
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102300
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‘They will follow, but we have to go now’
‘Wait , I can see something familiar...’
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102383
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"I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence, memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime." Francis bacon “Feminine …
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102355
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I think the Air Force Colonel must have known, from the flushed looks on our faces, that I had just fucked his daughter in a roadside patch of ragweed on the way to their house somewhere outside Danville. I remember looking back and forth between him and
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1023157
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She sings off-key while her married lover shadow-boxes his one-dimensional and split-off selves.
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102300
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Who is the torturer and who is the tortured?
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102385
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Mari thinks that's all fine and fucking dandy.
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102311
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My mother gave her all to convince him to be a politician. My sister begged on bleeding knees for him to give her head. I just needed somebody to help me find things.
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102365
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Anneliese inserted one of her crystal drops in Hymen's left ear and kept her left earring in. For a quarter, she bought a handful of cashews and plopped them on a red napkin.
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102231
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Far away or up close, she appeared just like anyone else, a young woman with pale arms and legs and a milk-face unblemished by a single freckle or pimple or blotch. Only when she turned a certain way did it become clear that what rested atop her muscle an
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102243
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Write power
like a purring kitten
eyes wide
without an idea of exactly
how small he is.
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102222
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“plain before my eyes” said he eyes swathed in bandages covering sight
oozing yellow fluid is this life thought i
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1022118
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We must sometimes see the world/
as the pale blue dot//
surrounded by brighter dots/
and that endless field of darkest dark.
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102233
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Wishing he holds you all night, unshaven chin/between your breasts.
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102232
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Michiko stood in front of Steinway Hall on West 57th Street.
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1022158
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We are the same shits/
we were in the Bronze Age
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10221710
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The list of things to live for/
shortens with age. The list of regrets/
lengthens.
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102210
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Astrid did not smoke. Astrid did not drink. Astrid was not overweight. Astrid did not live a sedentary lifestyle; her whole life, aside from shopping, was working out. Astrid had no history of breast cancer or other female cancers in her family. Astrid di
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102254
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for that is righteousness / that to everyone be allowed his own choice
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102230
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But Jeffrey was flabbergasted and couldn’t explain to the officer why he was speeding. All he could manage to get out as an attack of Tourette syndrome hit were nasty, flamboyant obscenities. The Alabama state trooper wasn’t amused.
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102200
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Randy stood in the alley behind Krasnowski Construction with a loaded gun shoved down the front of his pants. His friend Todd was inside, unloading the safe. And when Todd walked out the door, Randy was going to shoot him in the face.
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102253
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He saw places that he hadn't thought existed. He found his analog from 17,000 years ago praying inside of a white pyramid in Kathmandu, and saw how the fireballs being catapulted through the air outside were stopped in midair by a beam coming from the top
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102211
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No way to know why she's here, but scars and scabs can hold more information than a file or chart.
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102296
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Suppose you should bend your whole body backwards you know like a powerful bow and push the rest of your true self forward in my face just like Georgia O'Keeffe in nineteen-nineteen, push it all over in my general direction? My gaze would …
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102200
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The rocking chair will bite your toes.
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102211
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A 20-footer up on skids
sky-blue paint beneath the bondo
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