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a fun little piece for all to enjoy, not just the ladies
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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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108200
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I saw magic for the first time when I was eight, on the day Jeremy Chendo showed me that paper cranes can fly.
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108200
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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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108121
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My mind fabricated the smell of gunpowder as I pushed down.
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108185
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“Don’t ever call me that name, formal or informal, okay? Forget you heard it.”
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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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108130
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She turned on the television. The newscaster was her husband. She changed the channel. Her husband interviewing her husband. She changed the channel. A baseball game. Her husband pitched to her husband who popped a fly ball which was caught by her husband
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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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1081199
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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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1081119
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and we spun you, / spun you!
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108100
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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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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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108122
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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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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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108021
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My friend and I were arranging the things in my closet because we literally had nothing to do but he found himself in my house again, which he described to me like a disease...
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108000
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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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108042
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Vicki's scream echoed in Michiko's ear, an unwelcome earworm.
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108021
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The other night / I dreamt I was an astronaut
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108000
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Son, could you please step out of the car?
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108022
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...Yet today, I fear /
ordinary names for fantastic objects: Sex, Love, Mind.
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