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423 days.
The old man still possessed the child-like habit of biting his lower lip when he wrote. The thick skin as dry as pork rind. He recorded the days without rain in a spare, makeshift almanac. The pages waxened from the soiled press of his hand
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What I wanted was long-in-the-sheets sex...
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Their wedding gift to us was a night out with them and tonight was the night. But, you see, Rali and Kate had so much more to offer us than we could ever think to register for. They were giving us an exclusive guide on how to live as an up and coming coup
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and all the trees are holding/their limbs up in prayer/and rain is mating with soil
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We were to eat just meat and to become discombobulated over vegetables and bread and not to indulge in sex with strange men—men were all strange once you got used to their distance—were Lincoln logs, poles, boulders and scrub trees.
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... tomatoes swelling and turning pink...
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The handler found Topsy as docile as a woman being fitted for a shoe. Each time he tapped his cane against her ankle, she lifted her foot and held the pose, allowing him to dip his sponge into a bucket and pull it wet across the thick ridges of her skin. It was…
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Say the word and I shall become
a photograph;
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Andreas Cappelanus taught that the word / “love” comes from the word meaning / “to fish.”
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I'm Alice invading the garden,
looking for souls among cards
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The morning of her suicide, Nonny Rice received a letter.
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We’re friends and all but we’re just me and him friends, we’re not the kind of friends that you bring to supper.
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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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If you outlive me, she said, it won't be because I smoke but because of what you put me through when you quit.
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I loved my Dad. He was executed in 1967. He was guilty.
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I wanted to sit in class in Iowa next to Flannery as she recited that first story that stopped the world with an accent so dense with dogwood we had to strain to collect every word.
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Because they boil bananas and I fry them.
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Dear Erin,And people call ME a pussy. Fuck you,The Cunt
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But I do not dig graves, only cradles...
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[Her adviser] looked at her and tilted his head, smiling. Over his shoulder she saw the M104 bus cruising up Broadway, and considered diving under it. Instead she took off toward the corner, in shame, and he followed. When they parted ways, he took her ha
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Wrapping Kevin It was his last…
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The Six-Second Rule
They come to the new world, but bring the old world with them – the six-second rule.
When their bagel drops face down on the café floor, apparently it’s the old world six-second rule that applies, instead of our own
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silent black badass
unstoppable foot of God
now the sweetest sleep
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Listen to me, at the end of all things, and I will tell you her story.
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It was said that in order to decrease population— and thus poverty, crime and the growing uneducated workforce in Etherage, New World— they needed to limit, if not abolish, the Social Reform Act of 2013 that provided government assistance and aid to famil
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I do not trust Shay anymore.
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Don’t eat your lunch here
For this is where the monsters sit.
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Once upon a time, a young writer decided to leave his home in Iowa City, and seek wisdom in the East.
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In the night, a several-hundred-pound Black Bear scaled our neighbor’s back fence, bounded down the gravel footpath between our houses and, confused by the people and lights, followed his instincts up a large pine tree across the street...
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I heard today about your friend
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