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117721
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It was that awkward time when one didn’t know if the night’s lover wanted to see you again.
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117722
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He showed me the knife, said it was his best friend. This knife is older than you, he said. Here, run your finger along its blade. Like this. He showed me how to do it.
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117700
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He met her at midnight just off the plane and they sized each other with silent growing awareness that no matter what might transpire in distant tomorrows, each served here now as passports to magic and lands far away. On the…
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117701
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She excelled at plowing forward. He excelled at staying in one place. Eventually the distances got too great and she put an ocean between them.
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117711
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He’d've been up there belting out the hymns then bickering with the vicar after.
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117700
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He'd always considered it his bus.
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1177107
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117755
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Against//
the mysteries and the dark/
it illuminates and shapes
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117732
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The last of the Kazan Tatar Khans. Each dome represents a severed head.
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117723
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His smartphone rang. A picture came up of him kissing the blonde.
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1176108
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117643
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I didn't know what to do, really, but I had to do something. After all there was no one left to be the real bona fide hero to this story, except for me, the guy who wasn't any kind of a hero at all. I mean I could hardly move an inch, rolled…
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117621
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Gringovitch sat on the big leather chair in Olivia’s suite. Before him on a coffee table were the nude sketches he’d made of her earlier that day.
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117630
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A kind of sucking darkness into
A kind of noir celebration of despair
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117600
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Zal’s first day on the job they had 16 customers. They took turns crying, “Bring out your dead!”
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117640
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"Well, you certainly can't be marrying him then .. "
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117610
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The cab split the thread of oncoming traffic into water barrels and telephone poles.
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117600
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This was how he circumnavigated people, bartering like a viking setting prices on the edge of an ax-blade.
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117675
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Lucy entered the open door next; she had been inside the cat litter house before: Brother Fran didn’t bother to cover turds he’d laid. He spoke of the outdoors: lizards he’d separated from their heads, world of work.
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117621
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When I was in high school, we had a prom. The juniors were paired with the seniors; and when I was a senior, I recall meeting my date for the first time. You can imagine she was not enthralled.
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117642
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Seamus’ hands are shaking now
that once were still as stalking cats.
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117665
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117600
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"It all began with a painting," I said. "Mostly blue. Acrylic. Naturalistic in a modern sense. She was stylized but recognizable, and her breasts were exposed. Everyone could see her disordered skirt. The painter was a fan of Herrick.
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117642
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And in the dark caves a new secret, hidden from flyby probes and the imagination of men. In these new caves, names for the loved ones, Bradbury, Clarke, Rover
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117621
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The pawnbroker sat behind bulletproof glass at the rear of the display area, a veritable potentate of hope and cash, exchanging expendable items for derisory cash.
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117666
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He can’t enlarge the rock—/
can only find its safest distance
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117620
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It's definitely not her pretty face that made him smile so quirkily when she returned in the evening.
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117600
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That was nearly two years and a thousand smiles ago.
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117662
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Why go outside where the gutters /
are fraudulent and clogged with popularity?
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