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I texted a wickety-split, tax-declaring New York-based international escort, a moonlighting, all-pro Kit, whose day job on Wall Street yields no bonus.
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102294
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As a child I drowned myself in the pages of books, and as a writer I prefer to be left alone with my imagination.
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1022106
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2008Not a bubble burstbut a trust ruptured.The guilty don't survivebut, rather, thrive. 2011The monied are superior.They game the system well.As we work harder, longer,their paper fortunes swell.2017Marie and Louie were monied once.The Romanovs as well.Fast as blades and…
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102242
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The butterscotch on that painting makes me want to lick the canvas.
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102242
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"Aren't you free to say whatever you please?"
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1022141
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The author's note explains...
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102242
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It's always dark when Cal and I arrive. We park under the bright sodium lamps, closest to the doors. The lights will probably be off by the time we return, unless the sensors miscue in the uncertain light of early morning. When that happens, the lights…
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102121
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It made him feel better to imagine she was someone else, someone he didn't know. This comfort bothered him
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102144
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when I take the time/now to remember/
you have become/a thousand page/memory book
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1021118
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My father owned a penny arcade. I worked for him every summer all during my youth. My job was to hand green tickets to customers who achieved a certain score on Skee-Ball or shuffleboard. The coupons could be redeemed for merchandise which we had on display on…
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102110
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I had to go to
the lost and fondue.
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102142
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the silence of the hardwood floors
blisters into fragments
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102152
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Someone desperately dials a number.
Iris, draped tight.
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102165
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"Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels."--William Carlos WilliamsThere is something beautiful I want to say to you that doesn't seem to make much more sense in a box of clever words like this one. It feels closer to…
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102141
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There is some debate about what kind of twins they are. It’s a fissure between aesthetics and science.
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102140
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Jillian speeds across the stone wall, the hem of her dress flaps violently behind her. Sometimes she stands with her back fully erect letting perpetual motion guide her down a bend with her sun blonde locks brightening the dreary sky, or she lurches her
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102188
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I was insufficiently abused as a child.
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102100
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There was much joy in Galilee, for it was not often that two marriages, not merely one, were celebrated in one ceremony.
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102140
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I became infamous, in certain circles, for what I achieved, maybe more so for what I did not. I invented a dating service for seniors called “Carbon Dating.” I wrote a book called “What Real Estate Did for Me,” which was very brief and to the point. It
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102100
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CHAPTER ONE About nine-thirty P.M. on Friday night, Mary Fowler pushed her grocery cart through the double sliding glass doors. It was three weeks before Christmas. The sun had set and the temperature had begun to cool rapidly in…
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102144
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I heard the patron yelling,
“Hey, man! That’s my cappuccino!”
when the young female snatched it and got away.
But the police cornered her a few blocks away,
licking the last bits of foam off her wiley whiskers.
That’s how they knew they had
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102100
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As Mrs. Saito put on the helmet, the copter got off the ground. She focused her Mana and placed her hand on the window, bracing for the birds arrival.
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102131
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There was nothing on the lake but a / faint sailboat and a shadowy gull.
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102185
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From words to meaning― how complicated it is.
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102120
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With some of these guys it was like propping a kid on a training-wheel bike, then steering the kid down the street til he figured out what to do next. Tricks would come into the bar. Roanne had a smile for all but the dregs…
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102143
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You watch with frigid eyes, as their soggy woolens squelch dark mud, even smiling a little as they make croaking frog-lure noises. You know eventually a toad or two would land in the Frogger. You like the word Frogger.
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102021
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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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We now bring to the stage ....
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Friday afternoon. Angelique Brody knocked Francesco’s studio door.
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