| 2430  6  2   
 | Each mobile unit carried an Alsetex grenade launcher for dispersing tear gas. Any group of five or more people was deemed suspicious and immediately dispersed by roving patrols. | 
		
		
			| 2430  34  23   
 | I wrote a fucking poem about you
And you’ll like it
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			| 2430  1  1   
 | The neatly-gentrified Mtsensk District plaster buckled in all the right grey-painted places. The aged, yellowing windows rose and fell in fashionable decay. It was a well-upholstered citizen's slum, drawn to exacting state specifications.   Local housing authorities… | 
		
		
			| 2430  21  6   
 | "... he likes the hair starting to grow under my arms and he likes the smell there when  my deodorant is wearing off. " | 
		
		
			| 2429  12  6   
 | Opposite the foothills, on the field's southern edge, was a stand of old eucalyptus trees, each one a gnarled sentry with bark like burnt skin peeling from its trunk.  | 
		
		
			| 2429  10  0   
 | Somewhere there are fires burning in oil barrels, ragged homeless men warming torn-mittened hands―one day I'll be with them. | 
		
		
			| 2428  1  1   
 | A cat terrorizes a small family. They fight back. | 
		
		
			| 2427  15  15   
 | isn't so hard to imagine if you can just squint through the minutes like a good McGoo, slog through the headline happy seasons and sleep at it most of the  day. It only hurts real bad whenever you try to carry off a roaring laughter… | 
		
		
			| 2427  22  8   
 | "...when my daddy found out about Jasper, it was too late— mama was already round-&-radiant with Jasper's child. " | 
		
		
			| 2427  25  10   
 | You said it was easier when you were ten and could play Risk with a girl and it was a game, not foreplay.  | 
		
		
			| 2426  12  11   
 | What would you do today                                                                                                                                       if you knew your time was up                                                                      | 
		
		
			| 2426  23  21   
 | The night was a lilac bowl of darkness | 
		
		
			| 2426  28  19   
 | Mullah Omar was quoted as saying that “America will fall to the ground.”  The extinction of America will come about if God is willing. | 
		
		
			| 2426  25  19   
 | My mother was a child of the death camps, passed her adolescence there. Survived. | 
		
		
			| 2425  3  1   
 | The girl has big tits for only being fourteen. She leans in the passenger side window of my car and asks me for a bag of ten Oxycontin.She has no clue what I could do to her right now, that I'm a cop and could bring her ass up on charges if I wanted to. I want to do… | 
		
		
			| 2425  65  24   
 | The second thing Annie Riser did after receiving her diagnosis was to find a realtor in the Yellow Pages and put her house up for sale. | 
		
		
			| 2425  3  3   
 | Pete told me, honest to God, that the first night he had that tortoise back home with him, he woke up the next morning bald. The damn thing had eaten off all his hair. So then Pete figured he'd strike up a deal with Clarence Magee, the barber.  | 
		
		
			| 2424  8  6   
 | Someone's shaking powdered sugar on the tree limbs. Someone's turned out the lights. It's a beautiful morning.  | 
		
		
			| 2424  4  1   
 | "There's a dead mouse in the toilet!" | 
		
		
			| 2421  26  17   
 | Everybody in Amsterdam spoke English, and unlike the French, they didn't pretend that they didn't.
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			| 2420  6  2   
 | Lady Macbeth goes around moaning “out, out damned spot,” when a well-placed lick would have solved the problem immediately, with no unnecessary and heavy-handed dialogue. Once again, clumsy work. | 
		
		
			| 2420  1  1   
 | “I killed a man.”
     “Whaaattt???” I'd been meditating on the sun. I figured he was trying to jolt me awake. 
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			| 2419  11  9   
 | Garage-sale variety olive-green corduroy, elbow patches, hems too short.  His jacket pocket produced answers one afternoon like strips of paper from cracked fortune cookies. | 
		
		
			| 2419  20  9   
 | Something about the Garden of Eden. That it isn't really a garden, and I'm not even sure what Eden means. | 
		
		
			| 2418  25  14   
 | I haven’t made the headlines yet. Maybe I never will. In a city like this, it probably takes more than this to get the helicopters in the air. | 
		
		
			| 2417  2  0   
 | The women of Bixby, Texas, united in their frustration and general thirst for arson, cheered as Flossie’s Bordello and Bar-B-Q Shack burned to the ground. | 
		
		
			| 2416  0  0   
 | Those without magic, tried to figure out what their fellow co-workers were looking at as they watched Alysia fly. Oryn lifted her head up and her mouth gaped open, her eyes twitched as the reflection of a bright light glared across her eyes. | 
		
		
			| 2414  6  4   
 | Les petites collines de ma cousine     Vous savez, ma mère a eu peur du fait que je ne résiste  plus.            Elle avait mille fois raison :   Mes quatre sœurs  ont toutes rendu l'âme avant que… | 
		
		
			| 2412  8  3   
 | After like forever I remembered Seth was there, too. He was still on the levee's edge, but had drawn his legs up and crossed them, Indian-style. All of a sudden he was laughing. | 
		
		
			| 2412  1  1   
 | Closing my eyes, I try to breathe it all in, absorb the divine presence that is supposed to be here. Faith by osmosis. I guess it doesn’t work that way.
God has to be here. Why else would these people be here? Why else would the congregation return w |