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My mind fabricated the smell of gunpowder as I pushed down.
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108285
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“Don’t ever call me that name, formal or informal, okay? Forget you heard it.”
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108200
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Isaac Beauregard Lyons woke with a start as he heard the slamming of a pickup truck door then a curse from someone down on his front lawn. “Damn it Mike, be quiet!” someone shouted.
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108231
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Dutton felt thwarted in his literary career, producing only the classic "Here I sit all broken-hearted, paid a nickel to crap and only farted" in a locker room stall at halftime of the 1963 Weedwacker Bowl.
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108231
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In one section of the map C climbs a staircase.
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108233
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I am from slow diagnoses, impatience and parents skeptical of New York City doctors. I am from tall buildings, yogurt shakes, and envy for my brother's asthma machine. I am from here, stay away from there, don't get too close, be careful at the edge, the…
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1082119
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108230
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a fun little piece for all to enjoy, not just the ladies
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108200
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That is then and the devil reigns in the here and now.
Tonight I am the barfly and tomorrow I die.
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108245
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Their relationship had proved volatile. The husband had gone missing. The wife had gone dead.
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108210
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Sometimes I think our gathering is a ritual centered on collective visualization. Other times I feel like I have been physically transported. I am not sure there is a difference.
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108222
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108222
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108111
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Trenches coated with man-gruel laced the earth.
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108100
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Do you know what it is to crave something? Of course you do. But this was different. This was beyond craving.
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108100
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His senses were heightened. The scratching on the table with his finger nails, intense nervousness, the noise magnified every second, the ball point pen was piercing into his sweaty palm.
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108111
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I was told, take him round the back and deal with him.
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108151
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As with the trouble with gambling, I managed to spend beyond my self-suggested limit at the farm while wanting to do little else. It became a chase for "money" (numbers like rubles) ...
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108100
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Everything I write is gold, he mused. My words spill onto the page like ambrosia, nectar of the gods, filling an empty vessel with immortal life.
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108121
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The other night / I dreamt I was an astronaut
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108122
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Why should you
go through that
for me?
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108166
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Look. There's just you and me, that's all that's left. All the rest of them had already given up a long, long time ago. They dropped their precious, colorful dreams like rusted railroad lanterns, like abandoned pumpkins, and littered the Twitching…
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108151
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I change things without notice for himto make sure he's ready for the corporate world. It's no longer our goal to watch cartoonswe must now focus on breakfastthenaction figures. "But Daddy," he says. "I likecartoons." "I know it hurts," I say."But…
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108100
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Son, could you please step out of the car?
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108100
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He knew she’d spend the day furiously scrubbing the best she could too, despite the hot house in the middle of a Southern Summer, and despite no matter how hard she tried, the place would always look filthy.
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108010
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If this isn’t Paradise, what is?/ Your own eyes wide with/ the imagination, the knowing,/ the not-knowing of it all.
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108031
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Ha. “Real damage.” The guy was in the ICU when I woke up in the jail cell. Turns out he was a cop. In a small town. The town where it happened. How I ended up in the state police holding cell, I have no idea. Just lucky, I guess.
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1080104
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There’s not enough time because we come back to the things we never learn and forget them.
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108011
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We are diminished by our desire
for innocence, and we debase those who
possess it.
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108042
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breathe out
somewhere a tree falls
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