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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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115232
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I knew there was something wrong with the sunset when I woke up.
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115221
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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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115200
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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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115266
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With the sudden thrust//
of April green, we can forget/
our drought continues.
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115222
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The boy in the elevator with round glasses, /
who carried a newly-purchased broom, /
was tall and burdened with clothes
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115263
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We call it the alley of the shadows, the low sunless concavity of earth between the stalks, the acrid scent of the ripened arrow-points.
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115200
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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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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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115276
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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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115200
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Watching the surroundings, the school proceeded on with no threat in sight. The Circle of Four entered inside Azure’s classroom where she sat next to a window.
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115100
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—They turned him into a time bomb. Listen close, and you can hear the tick-tick-tick.
—All I hear is snoring. How do you know he was brainwashed?
—Because he can’t remember a thing about the experiment.
—I can say this: If he can’t remember anyth
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115100
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Those eyes – they held a lost blue sadness that enveloped her and stopped her mid-movement.
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Rain and wind and the pecking of birds
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115121
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Michiko never telephoned Frank from Washington or Chicago.
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115121
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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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115122
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I lounged in my captain’s chair growing a beard. Things continued in this way and then the president called.He wanted to know the meaning of virtue.
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115111
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god's seed is asleep in the carseat
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I. The sun's corona. Empty boxes near the firehouse. Red birth. A bird's lost wing. II. The bitterness of littleness. Apples in a pile.Early love.A spider, swinging. III. A father's harshness.Twelve bills unpaid. Leaves in a crevice. A dream…
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115196
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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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115122
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Let your father stay
through that dinner
when his mistress needed him,
while your mother was on the verge.
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115000
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Ben shook his head in disbelief: Was this some theatrical soothsayer trick of Ida’s?
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115021
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Butter me up, moon lover. Remember, I was once your warm and hot goddess of flowers, washed to shore with the others you may have forgotten. Now the issue of the earth gets nearer, and we can see each other once again, if only in our dreams.
Just be
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115011
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In the sides of mountains the rivers rush through and who would stop them as they gain a hold on the world? For silences they keep just then, as if from a larger wisdom and different clock. Pink moons and funny coins with the heads of lions and lambs, and the quarter…
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115042
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Imagine this: One day you are walking down the street (wearing your protective mask, of course, the cloth one you bought the other day because you liked the color and design) when, by chance, you happen upon a strange sight.
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115041
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B developed a thick emulsion that he paints onto the pieces of meat on which he prints photographs.
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115011
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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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115033
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Better move ‘cause I hear them comin’ up the other side.
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1150157
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They wait for me every morningthese two furry four legged catswhen they hear my car,their eyes open wide and they nuzzle each otherin anticipationof the food I bring them
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