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in the pink distance / a boy in a corduroy shirt / sits before an upended electrical spindle / and drinks a vodka gimlet
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It was almost like I was dreaming, he is saying, my visit to the ruins of the factory that made the first Narrative Machines.
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140931
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My first time alone with the women in Saudi Arabia...
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140900
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Famus Peepul Ellen and her boy, Larson, were on the second floor of The Monsters restaurant, searching for the fortuneteller. Larson had decided her signature was a necessary addition to his autograph book. He hadn't asked for her autograph…
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140994
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The woman took a small note card from her purse and wrote on it. She then stood, handed the card to the doctor, and said, “Call me.”
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140853
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—Mr. Martinelli, can you explain how you developed your painting technique?
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140810
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Victor didn't want to be alone, so he phoned Sophie.
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The artist with fork and trowel.
The paint; soil, seed, seedling or plug.
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140880
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Despite kryptonite not actually existing it became possible to buy, for 300 dollars, pieces of kryptonite on eBay. Personal protection, the sales pitch said. The pieces of kryptonite looked suspiciously like green plastic.
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140844
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the view is
breathtaking here.
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140800
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They sat eating and looking at each other. To Ben, Claudia was certainly a handsome woman and a good bed partner, but he was getting more and more suspicious of her motives.
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140842
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So we stayed on the train admiring the time.
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140810
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I do not jerk up to sirens birds doorbell shouts hello hello through the letterbox hello
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Rob slogged down First as November winds tore right on through him that Tuesday at four o'clock in the morning, letting him know that he was the only man left on the face of the whole fucking planet. Except for an old, broke,…
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140811
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I lost my job but the government found me a new one. Now the government pays me to pretend I’m a travelling businessman. I fly around the country to imaginary meetings. It’s part of a project to make it look like the economy is doing well.
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140843
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Man, this bearskin rug was a big, awkward sonofabitch on his back....
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140853
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I build pedestals.It's hard workHeld together by sweat, love, and lofty thoughts - an unsound foundation.The tiniest bit of heartbreak,and it comes crashing down. Always, I blame the builder and not the vandal. The next one will be…
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140855
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Wish more than ever there was a more perfect way to mean everything I say. If I could I'd certainly walk all my words right up to your face now and give them over, hand to hand so to speak. That's the point at which I'd very much…
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If Heaven holds forth its own Infinity, What of selves, of ours, could we stand to see? Cradled with harsh fangs of Memory, Deep forgetfulness, give rather me- Let bright dreams be our self's divinity: Forever holds, in morrow's hours, such little…
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140811
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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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You burnish what is left
until it shines and call it
your own.
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She’s new, with the enthusiasm of a new person. And everyone wants the new girl.
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We’re on The Worm. I dread the part where the train goes under the bay. I hold my breath until we safely emerge.
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it acquires a fine translucence
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140755
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I don’t see the problem. In the country I come from, language is the best part of the game.
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140787
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. . . the roar of fire speaks lasting heat . . . .
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she sees that no one has considered her needsshe feels left out, and so she strikes outon the offensive, nostrils flaringpoints her finger and makes her caseshe has been wronged, justified in her angershe will not back downthe accused one is hurtstrikes back with her own…
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This gravity thing, I reckon, is enamored with me. It loves me so much that it has fettered me with itself.
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I’m well aware of the shadow stalking just to my left, her mannish voice flirting with my sensibilities.
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The musician’s wife had a roving eye. He didn't care. He liked being married to a wild and crazy woman.
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