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When you think I'm not looking,
I always am.
You say it's like nicotine, your best analogy as a non-smoker.
The kind of hit that is hard to live without and isn't it human nature,
you ponder.
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110141
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Whisper salutations to your irises
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110120
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The story of a second, a stone, and an android -- all curiously interrelated and all, coincidentally, named Gretchen
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110155
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110120
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Clatters and clatters ensued, and the splash destroyed all denial.
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110101
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... threads are nasty things / That snag and pull and tear the cloth / And will not let me be.
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110166
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And pity us, this generation of sighing:
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110102
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I once saw a TV commercial that showed a group of Anglo retirees laughing around a card table. The slogan 60 is the new 20 floated beneath their fat, fun-loving heads. My parents are bona fide Baby Boomers. Their lives are build on credit and catchy…
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110175
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Forgive the doctor/
his hypocrisy -
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110165
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He doesn't call, not even on her birthday. She doesn't mention it or complain. She knows she doesn't have it as bad as some, even in this privileged Triangle of North Carolina. She is white and pretty and belongs to what's left of the middle…
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110174
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I’d look for a fork and quickly stab a piece of it and bite into it, feeling good about the finality of things.
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110100
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Won't speak a word against 'em. Car trunk stunk like bad chicken long after, but I won't speak a word against 'em.
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110121
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Clare sits bolt upright in the hard plastic chair, warily tracking every passer-by. In her lap, Kim’s hair is damp with sweat, dark blonde curls melting against her flushed cheeks. Clare absently strokes the length, soothing both of them.
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110198
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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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110150
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So back to Berkeley we went, and started our own commune in a huge rented house on Derby Street where we could tear the fences down in all the neighborhood backyards. We created what we called “The Meadow.”
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1101103
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One afternoon the kids from next door come over. Marion is our age, Jimmy a year younger. Marion's pretty. I can't even look at her.
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110054
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Suddenly, the room was filled with a screaming vortex directed at a pinpoint in the corner. Timmy's bureau was gone and everything loose in the room was flying towards the spot it had occupied. Timmy stood up in horror. He tried to seal this rent by tossi
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110011
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While Leif was still very young, his emotions were very easy to read, for they appeared on his parchment coloured skin, named in his mother's writing. When he was seventeen, Leif fell in love. She was a pretty maid, one of the college servants who kept his…
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110022
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I have become a prisoner of my own fractured mind/ A paranoid weirdo behind the horizontal bars of window shades
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110086
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Now the house is empty of romance except a potted flowering plant from my mother for Valentine's Day. No man has set foot in my museum since I moved here. One man has set foot. The owner's brother to see about the gasket under the toilet. The Comcast installers, twice. The…
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110011
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Steve Bancroft’s future wife showed up at his door that same night, slamming her hand loudly against the door and shouting for him. “Steve, Steve, wake up. Damn it, come on. You forgot to pick me up at the airport. Who are you in there with? I said wa
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110086
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The bar was packed. Fascinated, Tom watched the shenanigans going on around him.
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110011
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“I want you to face the toys!”
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1100155
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Her captors allowed her the use of the toes of one foot. It was hard to pretend she was numb—as if playing an artic game indoors. With the ball of her foot, she primed the canvas. Her big toe acted as a fan brush, the rest were sable, flat, or pointy. She told…
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110000
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Email flash: Kate Winslet is separated hope wells in dry souls
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110063
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Now I know
All you need is coffee
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110050
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Flicking the cigarette into the river the man's face becomes soft, as if waving goodbye to the only real attachment that he has felt in decades.
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110041
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There are times when she is heavy and times when she is light.
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109900
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Azure understood now. She felt it there as she remembered what she told Sora after her ordeal with the domed creature.
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1099138
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inside i know my heart rattles
cause outside i'm only seeing
that the truth is in tatters
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