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Darling Valentine’s pale legs shone in the dark, a beacon for the car driving without headlights along a tree-lined row of brownstones.
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I need some fantastic news. I need some happy news. I need to feel happy. Need Fantastic Need Fantastical Need News Need Happy need happy news make happy news happy make ake
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In December of 2003, Daniel Arredondo succumbed to his years long battle with colon cancer. If the name is unfamiliar, you're not alone. He did not answer to the name Daniel Arredondo. For most of his life, from seventeen years old to the end, in fact, he went by the name…
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Luv walks around touching everything with her little hands. Uzma follows behind her, talking sweetly, saying: "This is going to be your new home for a while, darling."
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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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"...she became aware of
her cold saliva
dripping slowly over her bare
arm muscle,..."
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Robbie took me out to Fox River on his father's ski boat one day, as he often did — but this time it was my eighteenth birthday. That was when he opened up his robe and showed me all there was to show of himself, begging me to make love to him, saying h
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...society has tampered with its denotation so much that it is almost incomprehensible without context.
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Your mother was married to a Minotaur
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They divided over worthless gain, while I came too late for the battle.
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Most of Carl’s neighbors considered him a lone taciturn man at best and an eccentric loony at worst. His neighbors knew him as the guy who left his house every morning at eight dressed in a suit and tie.
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Agents I have little idea. Woiwode partly supported his family in the 60s by publishing in The NYer (his friends were De Niro and Barthelme) so perhaps there was little trouble in his finding one. E.W. met his at a bar. He publishes in Paris and Texas.
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was beaten in
the back of the brig.
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A woman confronts her suspicions about her husband's fidelity.
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Zoë’s divorce lawyer, Arno Aghajanian (“Double A” to his friends), sat at his desk in Los Angeles reading a copy of the Hollywood Intelligencer.
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ARROGANT MAGNOLIA, the first to open all, poised ten feet above our fuss. …
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“Is that an erect annual plant in your codpiece, Mr. Flax, or are you just glad to see me?”
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A dirtied light falls through/
the grimed windowpanes.
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The last thing I heard was a loud retch
The loudest retch I have ever heard
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The Circle of Four looked at the little girl’s back, and they could almost see the wings, but it could never take shape because of her heart.
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I'm not sure if he's right or not but he has a gorgeous smile, he's charmingly self confident, and he's very persuasive.
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They prize how she makes shit up on short notice
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I planned to wear this shirt, /
blue, black, and white stripes, /
collar and pocket,
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Daddy comes home, calls us to his room, makes us stand in line, tells us to do it again...
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I'm a heathen in the church of the absolute.
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Chewing on peppered peanuts, thin flakes scattered carelessly around his squat, Father unfurls his turban and mops his clammy pate with an open palm.
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A break from bleak world history and events...
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Survival is often violent.
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...a session/
of hide and seek/
among the syllables.
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