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His mother hated blue jays, hated them with a passion she usually reserved for no-count trash who drank beer on their front steps and worked on their cars in the street.
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141986
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Before Genesis, digesting the primordial soup.
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141933
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I kill because I can’t stop. I kill because I can.
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1419116
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The big wigs call it aiding and abetting. I became an left-handed accountant with a tendency to fudge numbers for the damned.
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141997
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Mark Reep is that stepbrother you had a thing for, the one who turned you onto Steve Vai, Stoli.
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141900
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“I”, fuck it. I, I, I, I. It has always only been about me, this voice of mine, indivisibly me. selfishly and pompously. I shall not dispense with the false pleasantries other writers will offer, those writers that say, “Reader, look here, look at the…
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141931
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One of Montejo's captains has us drilling in the rain again. The sun hasn't shone for days and the air is stifling, like trying to breath under water. Everything looks gray except the palms. Each green leaf droops in the rain like a…
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141952
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I remember the first time I met the virgin, Terry (not Mary.) She was in the back seat of an old Plymouth convertible with its top down, jam-packed with raucous high school girls vying to see which one of them could be the most loud and obnoxious, and w
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141984
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The title of the overdue book returned to a public library in San Francisco 100 years after it had been checked out? Forty Minutes Late.(Readers Digest, 04/17)In 1999, Kathy McKeon, Jackie Kennedy's former assistant, went to a Halloween party dressed in a Marge Simpson…
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141976
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These words are dripping Delaware and these words are eating your eyes.
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141920
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"Don't stab me with that," says John.
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141900
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Mayumi and Emi followed Nina through a path away from the shrine grounds. It was narrow, but the plants did not interfere with their progress. Flowers showed signs of wilting, unable to handle the cold slowly coming in.
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1418123
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But this ache wouldn't leave me.
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1418107
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Once you descend, the third rail/
hums its invitation
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1418138
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inside i know my heart rattles
cause outside i'm only seeing
that the truth is in tatters
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141832
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The were two things and two things only in the town of Comfort, Alabama, that were older than Bella.
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141844
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From the rumple of pre-dawn Queens, sure South on 95, to almost Savannah by dark; still cold, but we’re full of what’s coming:
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141800
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i was in the fields, i was moss, was sticking my head in the columbine
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141863
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—Have you ever fired a gun?
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141822
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“How long you been waiting around?” he asks as he pockets my soggy ten-dollar bill.
“For a jump or break in life?” I ask.
He smirks. “I hear that.”
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141875
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you can't always get what you want
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141860
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To be perfectly honest, I was lousy at my job. Or at least most aspects of it. The typing wasn’t a problem: I can get up to a hundred words a minute on a good stretch of unbroken text, and I’m pretty accurate. I even edited as I went, fixing passiv
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141821
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Their tongues were dry, her milk was gone, and the last bit of water in the plastic jug had evaporated.
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141833
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This is a warrant for your arrest.
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141841
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“Behold!” cried the Lord, on a late September morning,
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141752
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My dog’s on suicide precautions. I had to take away all her eating utensils--even the chopsticks. So now she has to eat directly from the bowl. It doesn’t seem to slow her down.
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141765
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Everything was cool until she used the phrase, "five million dollar home."
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141786
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It is the fragrance of decay/
as paint, polymers and dyes/
outgas molecules of themselves
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141754
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But there it was, amid the “junk” set to be thrown out with the rest of his childhood, opened accidentally to the page of his Indiana Jones Action Journal about his winter formal when he was sixteen.
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141752
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You’ve got Wikipedia. Look them up: vagina and penis. What Wikipedia will not tell you, however, is the thousands of years of human anguish, and rapture, wrapped up in those two organs.
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