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The rocks were pillows around her shorn head, the crimson stream running from her ears the only sign she had not chosen to lay down on them. Behind us, the rockface stood stoic; below us, the water lapped our feet.She held my hand in hers, giving me succor as I…
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149400
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Billy liked dinosaurs. He played dinosaurs, collected dinosaur toys, drew pictures of dinosaurs, great shambling beasts of tooth and claw, whose passing shook the jungles and whose drooling jaws devoured figures not unlike his sisters. For birthdays and
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149311
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Grow.A word.A verb.Germanic.Feel it.Slow.Old.Young.Now I'll tell you how put it on a page:we'll start with the o.Take your pen just so,thin first,from the centerand thick on the up, thin at the topand thick on the down, thin at the low,finish sharply.The r is a…
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149320
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It's advertised as a romance. The poster shows a Sudanese woman with a child at her side collecting gum from Acacia trees.
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149321
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Edmund read ultra-fast:
“.Ass - ;fuc gav fas no I will fu fuc fu her he wen fa, ha! Ha!
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149354
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I can trust you with my secrets, can’t I?
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149322
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All I need is a break; to meet a woman who has access to a fruit fly database, either personally or through a trust established by her fruit-fly collecting grandfather.
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149356
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In my life when I am pursued /
by some wildly delicate thing
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Bubbling from the hairline cracks in the glossy pavement of the new Einkaufszentrum in the town of Dachau oozes a mysterious thick red substance. Not blood, the mayor insists despite chemical analyses. And keep it quiet. Just…
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149300
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So much of everything isn't the way I'd do it at all. I wouldn't do myself the way I've been done. Nope, the way I'm turning out is not the way I planned, definitely. I'm turning out to be a limp middle class day-after-day type of guy ... I go to work, I
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149366
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149300
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What do you mean dope in the front seat. I always keep my dope in the trunk. I mean hey, children DO steal.
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149375
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Everything conspires to kill you:
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149221
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Even at five years old, I could tell that Eloise was haunted by ghosts that shook her core, leaving her dangling and seeking stability in slowly repeating her compulsive routines.
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149265
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A human being is here. He doesn't disappear
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1492118
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Will it take the rise/
of cyber guerillas to finish it/
in the way it should be finished
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149267
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The dead girl was his niece’s daughter. Only thirteen years old.
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149231
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She seizes my hand. I resist just enough to sense her strength.
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149221
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these three remainders you, me and her are the legacy of simple math
and boolean logic, not so much
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149221
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Up ahead I saw clusters of people standing silently under the trees. They seemed to be just waiting there. More than 100 people lined up in the cold and dark, not moving.
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I got kicked out of a soup and salad place last week for trying to buy a large soda so I could sit and eat my sack lunch there while I read “Love’s Desperate Creatures” by Dorothy Danville. Have you read it? Its great. I’ll give it to you when I’m done
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149244
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And if I lived a thousand lives...
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149233
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It is dead, for a time.
Sometimes we are all dead for a time.
Our lives leave off, sleep under the weight of snow.
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My father taught me how to solder and that's when I first started to write. Now, when you hold the soldering iron in your hand and depress the trigger, the tip of the gun heats up. Novices uncoil the solder and place it on the hot tip, but that just results in it…
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1492105
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Sitting in the SUV awaiting the trooper behind us I felt a warning tingle.
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14921513
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Neither/
evergreen nor exactly deciduous./
And soon, a yellow residue of pollen/
smearing hoods and windshields
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149122
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In the small towns of central and southern Illinois there lives a very indecent sort of man.
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1491106
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“still watersrun deep” is not my portionborn to make waves Formed from the ocean
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149133
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Wishing he holds you all night, unshaven chin/between your breasts.
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149184
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In the moment
I crinkle the aluminum foil,
The sandwich now a deeper
Part of me
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