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Carla woke up from her hospital bed screaming.
"Somebody please help me. Please save me. I am begging you."
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133065
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My dumb body
that does not speak
still
cried out your name
last night.
Did you hear it,
maybe
in your sleep?
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133010
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133044
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There are some I don’t recognize. My gaze lingers for a second. It’s bad business this.
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The Moon The hatch of the lunar module hissed as it opened, a few puffs of leftover water vapor escaped toward them in a sparkling white cloud that rapidly dissolved…
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133031
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He's gonna find he wasn't born lucky after all, his propaganda has got up on the wrong side of the bed and sidled onto the couch.
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133053
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Somewhere between the bleating of sheep
And the laying of eggs
Comes the licking of frosting
And the eating of the cake
We’re not young enough
To know everything anymore
And you may think there’s no rush
But I know this
There’s a limit t
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133083
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The particles of dust didn't want to be looked at
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133043
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Skulk like a lovespun spider in a record store corner
on the orange formica subway car
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133021
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The girl lifts my head, and I sit up straight once again. She hands me a pair of old work gloves, helps put them on my swollen hands. She wipes my face with a wet, warm towel. Her thin arms tremble. She cries. I cry.
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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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1. Having made Alice from one of the Mad Hatter's ribs, Humpty Dumpty told her she could do anything, except speak. “How bothersome!” she said.2. In the church, Alice was horrified to be presented with a talking lamb. “EAT ME!” it bleated and, as the…
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132900
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Breasts were developed after World War II, the result of improved nutrition and the additional muscle mass that “Rosie the Riveter”-types acquired through manual labor in jobs that males abandoned to join the war effort.
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1329106
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a girl in a red cap
flashes by
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He was triply satisfied: he’d come twice and he was a damn good-looking man.
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By lunch:
The dryer is an F-5 dervish of mismatched socks, blue jeans and your yellowing college T's, lovingly held onto. For a moment there is a comforting warmth and softness to their smell. In the debris strewn landscape of the living room a carcass
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132987
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I ask if anyone has a poem or a story they would like to read. Everybody's hand shoots up.
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132900
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It was the woman, Mary Lou Compton, that he cared about. They would've been happily married by now if Bryce hadn't killed his Uncle Ned.
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132952
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In the zone of forgotten things, everything moves through a weak gravitational field
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132932
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She is not centered, but she finds her way.
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132922
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They can’t help
Seeing a child even there
In the crude brushstrokes.
They say it is me.
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132944
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Charted stars by the dozens /
with a side of frizzle onions /
dawn showers us with glitter.
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132900
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It’s a compromising situation...
The would be Bride of Christ begins perspiring
before the crowd.
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring echoes through the antique church
just one more time,
a little loud.
With every added verse and every flickering vigi
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132952
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Summer, Spring, Winter, Fall, the Good Lord made them all.
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13291611
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On Monday, May 7, 2018, at the age of 67, I had a stroke.
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132900
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“You sure?” He nods. “Maybe it was pneuomonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.” Flash of a smile, sobbing laughter, like an abandoned seal.
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"Commander of the Armies of the Four Winds" concerns a nightmare endured by Commander Daniel Bennett of the San Diego Police Department after he is assigned to recover the stolen Necromancer Artifact, which purports to invoke nefarious spirits imprisoned
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Better move ‘cause I hear them comin’ up the other side.
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A fat kid running;
the sounds of an ice-cream truck
—counterproductive.
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