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Mum and Dad are dead, though I'm the only person who has noticed. They're sipping their tea in the kitchen. Dad keeps coughing up maggots. Mum's face looks like a cracked mirror: I see myself in it, broken, dark. My brothers carry on as normal. They huddle by the TV,…
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150830
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he flies away
past the green explosion,
into the azure sky
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150811
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Eating my teeth off pulling the silk from my lips and swallowing each kerchief wholejust trying to find the priest who has his heart set on a motorcycle
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150876
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Beneath maples, oaks, and birches/an autumn apocalypse empties unruly brightness
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150886
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They clog the skimmer basket/
and fill the small Polaris bag.
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150820
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“I don't cotton much to some of the johnnie-come-lately's we get around here,” says Graham Buchter. “They're a bunch of talkers—they wear me out.”
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150800
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Mayumi and Rumiko stood at the top of a hill into stone forest, with the town in view from a distance. The mist made a single path, safe for everyone to travel through. In the town, there were lights flickering everywhere, some areas in total darkness.
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150832
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I’m glad they put the wall up. When it gets a little humid around here, I can smell those damn people.
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150800
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she flips
you a smile and a white plastic menu, and all the blood in
your head, and upper body rushes to your crouch, and god-all-
mighty, space aliens from the planet Vanna White could be landing in their unnumbered hoards in the parking lot, and all
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150895
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He kept
saying how my old scars
excited him to new truths
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150811
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Daddy says he needs to go to the movies at night to relieve his stress, so Momma wakes us up, puts coats over our pajamas, leads us to the car ...
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150843
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They divided over worthless gain, while I came too late for the battle.
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1508113
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150844
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My story begins where so many have ended, strapped fast to a cold table, just moments from a lobotomy needle and anything resembling the man that I am.
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150832
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Artie Shaw gave Ava Gardner a reading list in preparation for their honeymoon that included The Brothers Karamazov, The Origin of the Species, Das Kapital and The Magic Mountain.
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150822
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Steve lowers himself onto a lounge chair and lets out a long, overdue sigh. Cliff and Jim, the frickin’ and frackin’ of the built-in pool industry, are making a Burger Chef run while the cement sets.
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150821
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"More and more levels of physicality. And his eyes, man. His eyes were all wet, and... sparkly.”
“Wow.”
“Yeah. And before I can stop the escalation, he's massaging my heart.”
“Get the f__k out..."
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150851
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It starts with a letter, down the back of the couch, ending, ‘love, always.' I read only the kisses aimed at me - a firing line running off the page. How long has that letter hidden there? It secreted itself in a corner of the house…
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150832
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Of course they (the coffee and cream) were lovers, chemically made for one another, warmly exploring their partner's particles with the passion of a first kiss.
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150855
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Like when she said the word 'but', it came out ‘bet’.
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150855
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Will he do it with a gun? If it’s a gun, will it be a short one, shaved so he can hold it against his head. Will it look like the photograph he showed me, black and brown. I told him he couldn’t possibly buy something like that from a Walmart.
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150854
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Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone crack open
an Old Bushmill’s and offer John Huston a pull.
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150810
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150733
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150723
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I underline the passages Momma does in her Bible and circle the same words she does, of the oil Samuel uses to anoint David...
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150754
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Is there a homunculus in my brain guiding everything like the pilot of an airliner?
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150721
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Sometimes when I fall I see a ...
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1507128
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A friend's remark about androgyny, "it's overrated," she said.
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150711
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The clouds cried more than silver tears,
this time.
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150722
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...when the doctor scrapes the baby out, he cuts out all the things that make babies, too...
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