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one season slips into another
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118988
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Then he said something that really made sense, said he kept a blank check in his back pocket...
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118931
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When the house was sold the new owners walked in on what they believed was a former life stopped cold. There on the table remained a half-filled teacup and a well-read magazine lying open from years gone by. A Royal Doulton dish set lay half packed on the
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118833
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Here comes the bus. It’s going to Tuscany and is full of pronouns: he, she, me, you, it, them, us, we, and you again.
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118821
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The blue of the sky pierced her heart. She patted her lips with her tongue and turned to him. “We have to talk.”
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118810
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It was ridiculous. We were only in 3rd grade. How can anyone know at that age, only eight, that Judy F. was the girl he was meant to be with for the rest of their lives?
But that was how Stephen O. behaved. As if they both already knew this, and they
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1188102
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...cinched the handcuffs.
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118875
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To still make Emily smile. Even Today. On the street where Paper lives and works I'm Making this small effort out Of a few stray letters and An attitude like a chip On the kicked about shoulder. I don't Know, I think she deserves it. …
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118810
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The carnival passed through this hotel one time only, its boarded guests pretending to ignore the smell of outdoor whore in their bedding.
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118854
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We’ll just choke on all our shit
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118887
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Even among the thousands of black cats/
in the world, though, he would nonetheless/
be my favorite with those impurities of light brown tufts
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118811
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They heard Chu’s voice, he was lying ten feet away, his skull opened up.
“Find my change,” was all he was saying. “I left my change around, look for it."
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118895
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Someone must bear witness//
at a comfortable remove.
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118811
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I want to fly like a snail. Yes, snails fly in their minds, so does the brain of the ocean.
Does a man want to drown in the ersatz of desire?
You must understand me. You and I swam together. They call it escape velocity.
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118842
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"Aren't you free to say whatever you please?"
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118811
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our cogs
winding
and whirring
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118833
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One night, I wake and Daddy’s in the bathroom with a hanger in his mouth.
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118844
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Finding a soft pink blanket I prepared a place by the dirty window where he watched his world from a corner of his life.
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118885
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Small stones/
skipped across/
still water ripple
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118700
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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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118799
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Although I'm twenty years older than her, my girlfriend has called me "jailbait" for the past year and a half because she says the only way to stop having to share me is to kill my wife..
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118786
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my time there was not one afternoon not / one river not one tunnel not one falling
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118721
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I heard a story once that said we are all entitled to seven good years. No, wait, that is not exactly what it said. Rather, it was more plaintive and inquiring. The feeling that song gave was more one of asking the question: Wasn’t I supposed to get sev
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118753
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dealing with an over-aged imaginary friend gone rogue
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118700
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an island hidden in the sound holds treasure
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118740
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Your clothes had been burned and your skin washed. They kept your boots at my firm insistence. I saw them write your name on the card. The card was black, and the ink was black. The writing was shallow and scratchy. The box they filed the card into was black and so…
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118700
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For as long as John could remember, he loved to blow up things. It started back in grade school with firecrackers and cherry bombs—he would put them in toys, tin cans, shit like that to see what would happen. Then he advanced to stronger stuff, M-80s. Skip and…
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118753
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In the neon light and barroom shadows,
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118755
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My wife said she’d only be gone 10 minutes. 10 minutes. She left me with the 2 boxes we couldn’t fit into the car, and went home to unload the 5 others. She’d be back in 10 minutes.
I got a call after half an hour, she was on her way back to get me. I
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118710
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The sun was a red beet and it waited low in the sky but I didn't know for what reason. You could look right at it and forget for an instant about tenement buildings and hydro lines, or the dirty city in general. I tied my shoes and got some water…
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