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A brief colorful season/
and then the fall as winds/
break the hold the leaves have
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132221
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lucy had simply taken a kitchen knife and removed the outer layer, the layer of things people notice
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132243
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Nature is perfect... We can never learn that much
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132243
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That twig looks pretty dead to me,
He will never ever be a man.
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132297
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communication/
with the dead
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132200
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“You've got to be kidding me. A robot?”, said Marge as she rotated in the chair at her desk. She removed the leaf of paper from the typewriter and set in down on the desk. She looked up at Parkins who was leaning against the wall nursing a cold cup of…
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132232
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The retina was burning, the liquid had dried up, and the veins bursting. My eyes bled. But I kept them open. The sound was like nails on glass, screeching endlessly. Coming close to me louder, harder, faster.
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132233
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132211
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I noticed Sean changed after his grounding. We no longer played night soldiers around the block, no longer biked to the creek to catch crayfish he'd crush with his boots. Sean stopped hunting lizards, stopped charging smaller kids toll to pass…
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132231
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My first time alone with the women in Saudi Arabia...
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132220
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I barely scraped the sleep out of my eyes when I heard the shrill crying from outside the kitchen window, and I recalled one of the many reasons cats can't be trusted. You see, they're evolutionarily wired to imitate the sound of a crying human baby, so when they…
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132211
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#ShortStory #writers
are failed #poets...
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132142
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He adopts a stance known as Part the Wild Horse’s Mane but calls it a different name--the Part the Hair of the Skanky Barmaid for a Bleachjob position.
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132145
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She arranged to have an abortion at a doctor Greene’s office, who practiced out of a converted house on Solano Avenue on the north side of Berkeley. I took her there the day of the procedure. You couldn’t go to a regular hospital to have this kind of thi
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132153
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you look like
the insides of my cheeks
chewed.
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132121
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She said it feels wrong. Too wet, she said. I snickered, she smacked.
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132100
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"‘Man-hater’ is such a harsh term,” she says. “I really like it.”
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132122
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Why do you lie? the old woman repeats when her mouth is not busy filling the waste bin. We sit as far away from her wheedle and wretch as the small waiting room allows. A young woman glares at us through the mental health clinic's safety glass…
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132198
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we’ll never win/
the ongoing battle with dirt.
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132100
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His cheeks were extremely pink but the pink was not the shade usually associated with good health, it was the pink of Death.
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132121
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“The minute I stopped wondering about
the meaning of life is when I
finally started enjoying life.”
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132142
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Outbreaks of mass communal dancing—sometimes referred to as “choreomania”—occurred in Europe with some frequency in Europe between the 14th and the 18th centuries.
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132111
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The man was sitting at his makeshift kitchen table. He was forty-five years old. He wore his mortarboard with tassel whenever he left his home. Once inside either a reputable establishment or one generally considered less so, he was sure to take off his m
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132141
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A bum leaves his shopping cart
in the middle of the intersection
at 7th Ave and Perry St
and walks away
leaving everything behind
Shopping cart gets hit
by an onslaught of
yellow taxis whizzing by
The contents flying out
into the hum
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132153
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"Do you kiss all of your models?"
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132132
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Airwave candy
lyrical brandy
brass band singer.
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132177
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I saw the shiny dime . . . .
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132100
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I watched as you tried to fit yourself quite awkwardly into the small chair. Your eyes fluttered curiously around my house, and I smiled to myself. Your vision landed on my smile, and your face wore an expression of puzzlement."What are you smiling at?" you asked, your…
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132144
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Poems reflect their poets. /
Mine: ugly but loved. /
It is just as well.
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1321127
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If you find a lone, sad honeybee, buy a Habitrail cage and make it your new pet.
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