1266 5 2
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He remembers, he touches,
he lifts and kisses the mouth.
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126611
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The priest went into the place in those parts, the priest an old pear or grape gotten ripe and then moreso, but never actually expiring . He was hunched and it looked like he was broken at some integral part, but nobody could tell for sure where. One time, a bat…
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126697
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a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
ticket
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126684
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In the moment
I crinkle the aluminum foil,
The sandwich now a deeper
Part of me
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126620
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She had the smile of a pixie on mushrooms in a disco ball universe, and I dug her style.
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126633
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I nearly burst out laughing when I heard myself telling him in my accented English that she’d confided in me that she was preparing to sacrifice herself as part of an elaborate snuff film produced by a band of psychotic artists hell-bent on making up for
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126600
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The woman tapped a dark plastic stirrer on the tabletop in front of her to emphasize something she was saying.
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126621
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Roy Williams was his real name. It had been for the last 15 years. Since retiring from the Firm he’d lived innocuously in an apartment near the Old City walls of Dubrovnik doing the occasional quick job for them. You never entirely retired from the Firm.
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126611
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{ a Triolet }A smile, a wave as I stepped out Into another life altogether ‘Twas little enough to talk about A smile, a wave as I stepped out And O' how after they did shout (Yet now we only talk of weather) A smile, a wave as I stepped out Into another life…
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126663
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She was from Tennessee,
with advantages over me.
An upbringing surrounded by books
and sensitivity.
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126641
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I gently honked my horn and gave her the kind of friendly neighbor wave that only friendly neighbors can give. She didn’t wave back. What the hell is her problem?
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126642
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you happen to me like motorcycle tricks
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126675
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Everything conspires to kill you:
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126521
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Shut up.You shut up.That's disgusting.You should talk.Fuck off.Fuck me.whore.Yes.More.Shut up.
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126500
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It’s just another
Day where I feel tired, but I
Don’t know why it’s so.
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126501
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On the ridge in front of them, appeared a creature, neither man had ever seen before, standing taller than their horses, the strange beast walked on two powerful legs...
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126513
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Seeing her in black /
with his arm around her /
from the other side /
of a glass door. /
He gave her a beer. /
She might’ve been thirsty, /
uncomfortable.
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126594
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As a child I drowned myself in the pages of books, and as a writer I prefer to be left alone with my imagination.
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1265117
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They might think that loneliness has made me gullible, more than willing to open for them all kinds of drawers.
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126511
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Stanley had a crush on Sarah. They were in Ms. Goldman's freshman chemistry class together fifth period. That day they were working on homework at Sarah's house while her parents were gone. Stanley was in heaven.“Break time!” Sarah woke Stanley from daydreaming,…
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1265105
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I remember, when I was selling real estate, how you could always tell when there'd been a divorce. One room was conspicuously left emptied of its contents, and these rooms were never swept or tidied. Instead they were left just as they were when the par
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126511
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Lester walked back into the house. He was hungry but didn’t know what he wanted to eat. Really, he couldn’t remember how to fix anything he wanted. He walked over to turn on the television, but couldn’t find the on/off button. Surely the damn thing had an
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126522
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the small break of consciousness that is my dreamswaterso much wateri can never forgive the watertoo many tears
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126442
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Some great, doubtless precious;
some hollow, likely empty;
some only shards, but you never know...
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126498
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It was cold in the church. The Lutherans were freezing to death. The Catholics brought their winter coats.
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126454
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He stopped believing in God when he learned how balls worked. Spermatocytes turned into spermatids and spermatids turned into spermatozoa, the transition taking place in tiny loop de loops called the seminiferous tubules which contain at least three…
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126481
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Buck, naked, has no words. The best he can manage is a dopey strangulated cough. His wife, who is clothed, stands before him, next to the waterbed that took Buck half a day to force into the trailer.
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126452
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Can we ever truly know reality? I don’t think so. But fly in comfort my friend. Lean back and enjoy the thrust of those engines.
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126446
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If you were glassI'd fog you up With my breathI'd leave messagesPictographsIn fingerprints I'd press in closeSo would youAnd so we'd danceBut you are glassAn inch of depthTo catch my breath
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126421
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They put me in charge of developing a drug that stifles fear.
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