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The reality of the now
makes tomorrow
very distant.
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110000
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They say he started the study on February 26, 20—. Ever since that day, no one has seen or heard from him.
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110051
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When Veronica Lake died today of hepatitis, / he didn't blink an eye
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110032
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He doesn't tell her that he is married, and that his five year old daughter who is living at your house has a mother back in that same city
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110020
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I remember when we first met, telling my friends, He’s so pretty I’d dump my boyfriend for him.
I remember driving all around Elmhurst looking for parking. We sat in the car eating figs and popcorn. We tried to throw the fig pits or stumps, or wh
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110000
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The nude woman sits straight back, with her hand indented in the flesh at her hip, bracing herself as the comb is pulled through her long hair, with her breasts thrust forward into the light.
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110044
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Are all my words lonely, or nearly departed; decapitated; Visible only from the ankles down, nonchalant? I Get bored. All my words are not paying Strict attention to the television. I get dysfunctional. My words, coincidental though they…
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110021
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She eventually learned everyone had their own truth, and some of them were not true at all.
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110000
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My name is Op. That is what they call me, because everything anyone says, right away I think the opposite and head that way. So I am Op.
I spent the War in Georgia, a section of southern Russia near the Black Sea, which is how I survived that whole mes
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109900
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I had committed the perfect crime, and I had left nothing to chance; my best strategy was chancing nothing. Prudence and planning were my only allies, and these are the best allies of success. Usually.
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109910
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. . . lightening for their jars
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109910
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The night was black as burned flesh.
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109931
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Biting my tongue instead of lashing red stripes
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109921
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In a space capsule he is an astronaut. In his spacesuit he is dressed like chewing gum.
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109900
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The concourse had become his second home, he knew it that well. His fellow passengers were the houseguests he couldn't get rid of, the workers at the restaurants and gift shops a personal…
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109920
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Her smile was a cliff I stood on, trying to wrangle some kind of hope from the whites of her teeth. I heard the sound of the buzzer from the door on my ward. She stood there, a sickly ash tree, each limb flailing about like she was drowning in my sea of a
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1099107
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clouds clot the horizon all day
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109921
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Young is credited with the first use of “cool” as a expression of approval, and he embodied the concept in his life and in his playing. His only problem was he was born too soon, in 1909.
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109812
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Sometimes I try to hum / along with the air conditioning, / and pretend I do not exist, but am merely / the space that fills the room.
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109811
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Michael remembered when he would lay awake at night as a child and in his mind escape to the woods.
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109810
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As soon as a complication emerges, the obvious choice is to move to another line. But I don't. I can't.
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109800
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I got a rash under my wedding ring. I took the ring off and filed for divorce the next day. Mike begged me to stay. But when you can't trust your judgement, you have to trust the signs. Mommy had a rash like that. I used to see it in the shower. People think it's…
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109830
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...afraid of cancer, fire, floods, famine, being audited by the IRS....the list goes on and on....
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109831
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Interstice 1 Carved apart for Zion, set against a void,The wrecking dell of yet the Second War,Does Operation Hellstorm fill the floorOf still the firestormed ballroom? We forsworeOur filiality in killing you, and EidBells the invasion's consummation: and besideThe…
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109886
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Looking at an image of a graffiti on a wall on our computer screen we ask ourselves: what is the image's main graffiti-like property? We might answer: its location. But that is a contextual and political interpretation. There's nothing in that answer which addresses the…
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109800
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This anachronistic portion of the novel opens up a new and revelatory portion of the story which clarifies much of the mystery surrounding the developments.
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109842
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And when you come back, you work minimum wage and have water cooler sex and your face is no more than archives.
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109821
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Where exactly is your head at, dude?
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109822
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White sneakers cry, dripping from the power lines.
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109710
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James had chosen to stay home.
It had been five years since he had missed the parade(then for fever), and he thought about it all now.
About the sickness and
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