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Friday night in Little Italy is a big night.
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150132
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And, if you look real close, you see there’s a bullet hole next to his left ear. A stray one went past his head and straight through Santa’s heart.
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150111
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The clouds cried more than silver tears,
this time.
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150100
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Mayumi’s eyes twitched. Her head felt the pounding images and voices grafting themselves onto her mind.
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150111
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One winter day, walking home from work because his old Honda Civic refused to start out of sheer laziness, Martin found the cat in the alley behind his apartment building. It was terribly thin, with a swollen belly. It twirled around his legs, pleading with big…
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150100
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"Is all life suffering?" Miss Ang asked as she parked in front of the brothel. The concrete monstrosity stood humble and lost in appearance, but the locals knew what transpired there, as did the truckers and businessmen that frequented the Phetkasem Highw
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she had a chipped tooth...
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150162
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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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150131
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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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150198
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Sometimes, you compare your living situation to a prison because it makes you feel better. "At least I have a fridge," you think to yourself.
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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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150100
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Could I really seduce and rob a total stranger -- just on a dare?
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150000
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“It’s time we moved our relationship back into an upright position,” I said.
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150010
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in her bedroom, opening night of his solo show she is snapping her nylons to center the seam stretching from her toes to where the line disappears into the hem of her dress.
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150065
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Everything was cool until she used the phrase, "five million dollar home."
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150032
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Waiting for the light to turn, his mind wandered, wondering how it was that bridges of this sort collected stories. Old thru truss bridges with grated deckings, or any older bridge for that matter. The stories seemed to have died out since the concrete
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15001211
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The police states of German National Socialism/
and the Soviet Union are but pencil studies
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150020
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She’s gotten more involved in the game with menopause.
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150032
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Little things that kept me going are no longer doing the trick, and venting to someone eventually drives them away. People around you know what is going on, but there is little they can do. They stay away at more than an arms length and you understand. Tr
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150000
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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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150063
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Some people are born that way, and some people do things to themselves
that keep them from talking. Like opening up a soda bottle with your mouth.
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150044
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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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150031
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Anna's daily train commute from the outer suburban fringes to the city reveals a message that changes her life.
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150022
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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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150084
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on cd I make
john hiatt does not smash
perfectly good guitar
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150053
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Well, now it has fallen away some
but I felt better about it when it was raging
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150022
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a disease/ like junk-sickness/ like a jealous lover/ who discovers competition/ and meets it with a blade/ in your heart,/ not hers.
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