2439 10 6
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If you could look out to either side of you, you'd see the signs. Restricted Area, Danger Keep Out.
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2439 1 1
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“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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2437 37 31
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Under the tree of the one apple, the Tin Man waited for his Tin Woman. He wanted to ask her to become his Tin Wife.
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2436 6 8
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Noon sun, like a restless master
on my back
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2436 8 6
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I taught Polly to turn on a flashlight with his nose. It became his favorite occupation and he'd sit for hours with the light between his paws, watching the things it lit—sometimes jumping up to lick the wall. He'd shine it on our daughter's…
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2436 2 0
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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.
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2435 6 2
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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.
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2434 9 7
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I am the marigold wheel no one can understand, the menace your grandfather warned you about. Yes, yes, that last phrase was overkill...
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2434 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.
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2434 4 2
|
What was it about women that made them know these kinds of things about one another, about people, the way they came together, the future? Crater thought back to Dresden, the exchange student from Holland. She knew things like that.
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2433 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…
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2432 0 0
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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.
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2430 21 7
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I didn’t like her. I like the name. You know I hate that name. I always thought you were funny. Maybe even more than you were mean.
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2429 15 11
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Library life is full of surprises.
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2428 32 16
|
you had to actually cross a damn street, vacate your brain, and say, "you two hellions are going to combust from all this torrid public defilement."
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2428 11 8
|
She was a moon dancer, keeper of secrets,
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2427 22 15
|
She leaned up on an elbow, smirked and touched his leg. “Want to do it?”
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2425 5 3
|
I’ll tell you what I think, I think
Their hopes of a brush with love
Is what keeps the simple cricket
Awake all night
If you find a baby cricket on its back
Fallen on the sidewalk
Struggling with its legs
In the air
Help it to its fee
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2424 22 21
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2423 32 14
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I knew I was on the wrong bus, but jumping off was a death sentence. I was afraid, but by then I was used to that.
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2423 5 1
|
I should have covered myself with leaves. I should have wandered farther from the path.
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2423 4 2
|
Some of the guys wear earplugs. They wear ‘em because they don’t wanna hear it. Oscar Livitt fucking. Nobody looks.
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2423 9 7
|
The Killer Whale came back and promised to be nice.
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2422 21 13
|
‘I love you' said the man at the book signing.
He was one of the last. The shop was closing. The staff were starting to turn off the lights. She was sitting in the glow of a table lamp with her latest novel in stacks around her.
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2421 41 33
|
I need to get in and out, you say.
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2421 9 7
|
Let’s be honest, you were cheating on your girlfriend, and I would’ve slept with anyone
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2421 6 4
|
The man looked at him for a moment, as if he didn’t understand him, “Mr. Wallace, you have a genuine miracle in your bathroom. This isn’t something that just wraps up.”
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2420 19 9
|
They line the bar beside me.
Talking about themselves and estranged children,
while rubbing necks and wrists,
searching for the pulse.
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2419 35 21
|
everything plus zero stays the same
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2418 32 20
|
one day I will take you / to Grenada
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