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It was said that in order to decrease population— and thus poverty, crime and the growing uneducated workforce in Etherage, New World— they needed to limit, if not abolish, the Social Reform Act of 2013 that provided government assistance and aid to famil
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Keisha was the name she gave us. She said she had no father and no last name. We wrote her down as Keisha B. We already had a Keisha A. She was about twelve though she told us fourteen. Her eyes were older than we dared think. We knew her mother had been murdered and that's…
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Exhaling slowly and deeply, Tyler settled his back in against the saddle of the tree's broad trunk and let it all go.
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In Nebraska, we found a dead man lying between the furrows of a field. He’d been there awhile in the heat and the sun, the only shade provided by a cloud of flies. The dead man lay on the ground, decaying, disappearing into the dirt:
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You were watching TV when it began. That much is obvious, since you have always watched TV on Thursday nights, and Thursday was when it began for everyone in Polisville. Around 11 PM, a train on its way to a Nevada landfill jumped the tracks. It's a secure landfill, and the…
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Flexeril and Hydrocodon... For my back
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I watched myself tilt my head and coyly smile in the bottom right corner of the chat window-the two off-kilter lamps in the room were casting an asymmetrical shadow over half my face.
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Their wedding gift to us was a night out with them and tonight was the night. But, you see, Rali and Kate had so much more to offer us than we could ever think to register for. They were giving us an exclusive guide on how to live as an up and coming coup
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I guess the ultimate, penultimate failure
would be to write a love poem that
turned on everybody but you.
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Dude -- I DON'T want to date your boat!
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["This is not a snippet of text. This is only a test."]
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She threw the wine glass on the floor.
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1) Tragicomedy set to drama is what the American public fears and abhors. But it's reality, and reality can be subject to the rifling burden of…
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The weight of my heart dragged me in dangerous directions.
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I have been mother
to a hundred soldiers,
holding their hands
barely knowing
their names
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In her cleavage, Mark is able to discern a golden heart with the image of an arrow piercing it. A bow is super-imposed over both.
“I see you are a devotee of Cupid.” Mark states.
“I notice that you are a follower of Bacchus.” Diana winks.
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sorry I didn't inform you
(missing cap)
about my trip to Spain,
(comma splice)
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If I play my accordion too loudly while you're painting, you complain. You stamp about in your room under mine. You fetch the broom from the closet and use it to thump vehemently on the ceiling. I feel the vibrations through my feet.
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Sand underfoot.It's raining I say …
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She said this is our abode and it sounded like a warble and she made a sweeping gesture with her arm and the boy started to cry.
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Children should not be made to do things unless they want it.
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Everybody in Amsterdam spoke English, and unlike the French, they didn't pretend that they didn't.
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[DO NOT READ BETWEEN THIS LINE ... CITIZEN!]
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It’s that, really, nothing else could be
Sleep and Poetry, Mr. Keats
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Hi, I'm Harmony Korine. I esteem douchebags.
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He’s hooked on the pinball / excitements of adolescence
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The city's hung in flashlights.
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I retrieved the book from the middle of the room and set it in front of her. "Look," I said. "If we open the book up again at the beginning, Charlotte's alive. She'll always be alive in the book."
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