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“What does it feel like to run, Thomas?” I yelled across the field. Thomas was so fast. I would never catch up to him. Even if I could run. He was so fast. …
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143431
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No one takes me seriously because I am an idiot.
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143488
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Some days, you want all the red states to secede
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143432
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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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143497
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She grew tired of waiting for her husband to give her a flower so she picked one for herself.
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143453
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She told me in all my past lives I’ve always been a woman, and I was stuck in this relationship and you weren’t coming back, so I should just move on and get over it. I was a little sad, but yeah, I knew I was going to go back to her one more time, just
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143485
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Perhaps my grandparents, Fred and Lela, when they were growing up....
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143421
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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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143432
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Where were you the night Katrina destroyed New Orleans? Oh, what a night... A week later, most of the city was still underwater, with hundreds or thousands of folks presumed dead, and tens of thousands…
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143420
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"Don't stab me with that," says John.
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143496
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Because we cannot know, we keep walking, keep getting up each morning, feeding the cat, drinking coffee. Because we cannot know I'm drinking coffee that morning in Thailand, not on the beach but just off, because there is only one spot where you can get real coffee,…
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143400
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Could I really seduce and rob a total stranger -- just on a dare?
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143311
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For example, I never noticed that the moon had eyelashes, not until tonight. You said you couldn’t really see that, not at all. You preferred the fact that the word “lunatic” sounded like an attic on the moon...
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143354
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The cellar smelled like an aroused muskrat.
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143386
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It is the fragrance of decay/
as paint, polymers and dyes/
outgas molecules of themselves
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143331
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There is a the reason for the theft of people and the melting of gold
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143366
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still have the yellow rose that I
did not throw into the grave.
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Snap!
Dylan’s arms flung forward as the rod bent toward the ocean. “Holy God! What did I snag?
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143363
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—Have you ever fired a gun?
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143332
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Rose was the easiest lay in the Fletcher Memorial Home For The Aged.
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143333
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1. we got off at the same stop. you approached me as i walked towards the stairs. i saw you looking at me, you said. i wasn't. i was looking at your magazine's cover. i don't remember what i said. i wanted to explore how to exist as myself however i wanted. i wanted to get…
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That son of a bitch locked me in the house again. Come over and knock in a window. One of them by the roses; he won’t see. Be a dear.
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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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"Asaka-sama, we have been beset by the foulest of demons and nothing we do will rid us of it." The prostrated villager quivered from head to foot on the tatami floor. "Please, we are unworthy but would beg for your help!"Ietsugu's heart raced at the statement, though he…
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143333
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Ymir used to be a big nothing;Now he's everything.His hair is the grass, the trees, the reedsHis scalp is the desertHis skull is the empty vault of spaceHis brain is telecommunicationsHis skin is a reality made of matter and miragesHis forehead is the Ten CommandmentsHis…
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143266
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Wild are the woods tucked in the backyards, tame the front lawns of green, manicured, with a hedge and a few flowers, a well-maintained driveway, and a garage door.
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But this ache wouldn't leave me.
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alright, alright but not so much of a friendly little cigar-chomping companion-like a friendly ghost! That sweeping hair of longed for sleeping only awaits you once you've drowned too …
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The drone of radio seeps into the car’s back seat… I hear only bits and pieces of information –
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