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Tomorrow we will eat it in anger.
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1152136
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I tell people that we leave out food for the creatures to appease the skunk gods.
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1152179
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The cornbread for dressing cools./
The cranberries boil with one cup each/
of sugar and water. The aromas are nice
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115221
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In my dream I am the showy leaf, and you are the stem, and you are the strength. I am the leaf turning colors, my face flushed, the fine hair at my neck, and there is the deep carnal twisting around your stem that sends me floating to the ceiling over a
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115252
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Minimalist/realist short-story writer Raymond Carver was fired from his job as an editor of science textbooks because of his inappropriate writing style.
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115252
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Like the Lady Miss Kier, I believe in the power of love. I believe.
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115272
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I remember one afternoon when Terry and I did it in broad daylight in a nearby park in Lombard, or Glen Ellen. This was after we had broken up already and I was seeing Jolene, I think, before leaving to go out to my writing program at U.C. Irvine. It wa
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115200
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Some friends of mine took him for a ride out to Broad Channel, you know that enclave of crazies that live in houses on stilts on the island in Jamaica Bay on Cross Bay Boulevard. He might find that when the tide comes in, the water might be a little deepe
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115261
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The bison know a lot about Longfellow
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115220
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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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1152129
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The gulls/
have somehow mastered the art//
of avoiding the nooses of six-pack/
plastic rings
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115100
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...I made the mistake, thinking the point of a maze was to go in one side and out the other.
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115121
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I’ll bet
You got bit by Snake Charmer Boy
And your world fell out from under you
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115100
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The glamour of living in the Rebuilt Engine Capital of the World is meaningless to the young boys who roam its crowded streets after school, desperately looking for something to take their minds off their homework.
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115100
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It was then an angel was sent to provide assistance and guidance. After the first time, with the radio show, the woman could almost feel her presence. When she did not know what to do, or needed help or to encourage others, when her own will and words wer
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115122
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Is this a tenure track position?
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115132
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I knew there was something wrong with the sunset when I woke up.
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115121
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Mulvihill suspected, but could not prove, that the connection to all three murders and the three men was a painting
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115100
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Side morning lightthrough hydrangea crab, reachand shine off patio ice
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115043
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Even the fruit from the nearby orchard (which I, in part, nourish) batters my stone to rot.
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115021
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Ben left the airport and headed toward downtown Nice, his stomach was in a knot.
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115052
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Fingers scrabble idly at pocket seams, forage between teeth, grasp for tepid cups, patter a drumbeat on knees.
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115021
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Tucker walked the long and lonely stretch of highway in front of him. The loneliness didn't matter; he had his own way of handling that feeling. The walking, however, was wearing away at his mind. How…
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115000
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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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115000
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With a deep breath she closed her eyes. Azure saw where she was at through night vision.
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115011
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our cogs
winding
and whirring
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115096
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The world can still be viewed as a honey drop of sparkling rain, but not all washed up tears can be revealed as such. The stories swirling inside are constantly shifting their own gears, searching for the lost highway, and sometimes…
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115021
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A meaningful conversation Subdued the huge Toys “R” Us question mark Standing sun-bleached and sprinkler-dirtied In our flowerbed On the patio Explode your fanny pack, A clinking most dangerous The Mysterious: Its …
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115076
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I fancy myself a spy. Unofficial official of the H. O. A. Super secret free agent agent of the Glenwood Homeowner's Association. Even the board is unaware of the work I do in their name, without the faintest utterance of their name. Only the highest of the high, the…
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115042
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A Massachusetts nursing home that doesn’t believe in antipsychotic drugs uses a llama named Travis to calm patients.
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