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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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you look like
the insides of my cheeks
chewed.
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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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"May I help you?"
She was beautiful.
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in case something went wrong
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Over the last years of her life, my mornings began when Mom decided to play. Sitting on her black, ball-and-claw stool, she'd raise the key cover, stretch her neck and shoulders, and take slow, deliberate breaths. A deep, meditative state descended over the room and…
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The one-legged crow was back in the yard again. It was there yesterday and maybe before, but yesterday was the first time I noticed it. I've been using my binoculars lately. It is interesting to me...to bring things closer. And it's not just birds, but other things like the…
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" ... that’s a seriously good result for an opening night."
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Threads of sadness in the hands, in the touch
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toe and hand-/
holds against/
the shear cliff
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whatever weaknesses you displayed//
as empathetic human fellow traveler,/
your command of English survives you,//
on into the last echoes of the human/
once we’re gone.
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-Someone could have boosted this easy as pie, Ben said to himself.
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we’ll never win/
the ongoing battle with dirt.
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Someone desperately dials a number.
Iris, draped tight.
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We are a city of overworked workers.
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I even listen to the Ugly Kid Joe version. I fall asleep perplexed and disheartened.
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My dad / always had a fondness for Raleigh’s kind of loss
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"I still believe in love."--John Lennon It was war of the ancient order come to the farthest shore at last. No one leaves this world without an arrow through his heart. Why should I lie to you now? We all fight the truth in…
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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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#ShortStory #writers
are failed #poets...
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kindergarteners
sent to class with
Uzis
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You sleep in equative lip biting slumber
hugging a pillow you think is someone else.
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Now that you can go to a body shop and get nearly any mod you can imagine printed and attached in about an hour, every cracker-ass redneck is sporting a twelve-point rack...
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His only sibling had passed a few years back and his mother was the only one left of a gaggle of 7 brothers and sisters and their spouses. The turning of the generations, from birth to grave, was always a bit like the tilling of the ancestral soil. A new
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All I ask is that the guy has teeth and an income. More important are the teeth because he can always get a job, but he can’t un-rot the teeth he’s lost to meth.
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Creatures of the dark don’t follow daylight savings
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i waited for the moon last night for hoursfell asleep with the record player on and dreamedof rain running downgutters of sea glass housesthe sun nudged me awakeand she served me toasthe's not serious,she saidhe's half baked,full of…
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