1390 3 2
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She is not centered, but she finds her way.
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138930
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So this was how it started. The next day Kia returned to sit with him a bit and the next day and the day after that until the days turned into weeks and the weeks into months. Eventually she found out his name was Saul, that he had no 'proper' job, was o
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138900
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destinies bring me to a damned desert
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138900
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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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13891110
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My emulations always fail. At heart,/
I don’t want bougainvillea nor blushing pilgrims
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138900
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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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138920
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He did not seek a place on a cabinet, nor to impress stockholders with placards of wealth and return; he did not enumerate the downtrodden and asocial with advertised miracle treatments, or write a best seller on the markings of success. All he did, all h
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138921
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I tried to enlighten them. For my trouble, they tried to have me deprogrammed. I condemned their narrowness of mind; they pitied me my naiveté. I ridiculed their religious bourgeois complacency, but they really didn’t know what I was talking about.
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138911
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Salted sea of summer fingers- sand and salted skinmelt in me; vanilla ice cream lick- your lips; salty kiss saliva- sweet salt of semen run down my chin languid-salty sweat of you.
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138910
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She smiled at him. "You want to know the secret, that's why you want her to tell - not because you want her to be happy."
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1389116
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Irony is written sarcasm. Sarcasm is spoken irony: the opposite of what is meant. Catholic irony in fiction seems deeper and more related to theme. Protestant irony starts with P as do other þing.
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13891714
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After Slick Daddy — aka Billy Ray Thompson — gave up driving his log truck and took up with playing and singing the blues full-time he was what you might call a hot property around the juke joints along Highway 61. The women didn't seem to mind…
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138964
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I try as much as I can to write but only in as much as you believe―am I successful.
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They come to wipe themselves from my memory, but that, of course, is impossible. In this place, we are bound together, the long line of men who have killed me, and I.
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138932
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All the time I'm eating I can't help but think of the many different tuna melts I have ordered in diners and coffee shops and how each of them disappointed me...
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138921
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Did I refer to Mark Twain’s typewriter as an animal? Did I call it a hyena? I would not say that about Mark Twain’s typewriter.
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13891710
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the moon tops the monolith
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138920
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Charley calls to say he hasn't heard from me. The blinds are gone, so I take a lipstick off the living room table and draw a circle around his head. I make a half-circle for his gut, a squiggle for the telephone cord. He can come over, he says, just to …
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138943
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Skulk like a lovespun spider in a record store corner
on the orange formica subway car
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138944
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On our wedding day he carried all of the furniture out of our small bedroom, created a sanctuary.
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138900
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Reverend Peter Roman could stand it no more. He stopped his speech. He felt a fire burning through him, a hatred for humanity and all the weaknesses of beings not perfect before God. He stood a long while, staring at the congregation. Then, he slowly spok
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138932
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Lying in the blissful glow of young television.
Idly sleeping, eyes open and ears closed.
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138922
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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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138932
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138910
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Steven 33 started small, made it big then opted out. All the great pillars of the world’s economic construction do that. Steven 33 saw an opening, then sold the idea just before yesterday dawned. His first fortune grew from fear.
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138800
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There were six people on the bridge, myself included, and we were making our way across when something exploded—it was more a rifle shot than explosion, actually—and it cut like a razor through the delicate fabric of the moment.
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138887
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arrogant, sullen,/
supple and ambiguous,//
English seems the ideal tongue
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138800
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"That it was my stepdad's fault."
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I figured he knew what he was doing–he was the crazy one, after all, not me–so we took turns snorting lines of equal volume.
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