1341 8 5
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The thrum and the thrust//
have beaten conviviality out of me.
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134100
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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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134154
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At night, we’d sleep in our usual spots on the edge of the bed - Becca on the left, me on the right with Hanna in the middle as before the accident.
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134121
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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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134143
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destroy the day
rip up the track
jump in the water
eat nothing but bugs
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134184
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134100
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" ... that’s a seriously good result for an opening night."
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134123
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I even listen to the Ugly Kid Joe version. I fall asleep perplexed and disheartened.
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134166
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Two girls, twelve years old, run down San Pedro Avenue past the market, the middle school, seven driveways, their small chests heaving. The smooth soles of their Mary Janes keep slipping on the gravel driveways. Two men in a rust-orange van bear…
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134164
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You have at least
an intermittent belief.
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134195
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Do you see the hot coals of doing? The way time sizzles or wilts…eat those coals.
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134122
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mind heart soul will blood sweat tears muscle, and bone,/and then always something else—not more, just else . . .
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134041
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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
|
134011
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I have a fascination with Dickens and London and this was inspired by my next novel.
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134055
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The redwood trees were taller than dreams
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134098
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we’ll never win/
the ongoing battle with dirt.
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134054
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We are a city of overworked workers.
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134000
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Who remains after the aching night has departed into dawn
and left us to week-old sleep
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134075
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From this fundamental simplicity,/
houses, cities, regions./
A nebula stretches across the grid.
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134077
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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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134033
|
. . . we agree that formal standards for identifying literary merit exist and are capable of being discerned, not merely of being ascribed. —but is this itself true?
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134000
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Ben was stuck between sweet essences and rancid Talmudic funk. It was going to be a long trip.
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134031
|
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133921
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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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133900
|
Creatures of the dark don’t follow daylight savings
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133900
|
His cheeks were extremely pink but the pink was not the shade usually associated with good health, it was the pink of Death.
|
133932
|
Airwave candy
lyrical brandy
brass band singer.
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133933
|
1. The Grizzlies met with the other forest animals for a meeting about voting rights. I was there too, you know, to prevent chaos or something. 2. Mom didn't like it when I took in a …
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133900
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the odd stone stands/taller than trees/it protrudes from the young forest/an old mecca but smooth
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1339108
|
toe and hand-/
holds against/
the shear cliff
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