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—That was harsh, said Jen as the bathroom door slammed behind Melanie. —Mel's my best friend, not yours. She needed to know that shade of blue doesn't go with olive skin. —Viv, you said she looked like a whore. —That's how our friendship…
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When you return home, one year to the day that you left us, you will wonder if you can do it all over again.
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He’s hooked on the pinball / excitements of adolescence
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Not everybody sees Father. Not Mom, not Dad, not even my little brother, Andre, and he see lots of things. Me, I need to.
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Eighteen-layered canvases were prized by both of them, regardless of whose work appeared on top.
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The Cheshire grinning/
moon cups itself to capture/
Venus should she fall.
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This was looking down from what we know as The Grassy Knoll.
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O’Malley imagined the blissful, narcotic innocence of Toby’s world where soft-shell crabs crawled into people’s mouths and hummed a happy tune as they were chewed and swallowed.
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When Ryan isn’t around, those of us who know him lament that he peaked at 17, at Disney World.
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Her mother dressed her like a little girl would dress a doll.
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Dear Erin,And people call ME a pussy. Fuck you,The Cunt
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"The problem is, sometimes my pigeon wants to fly somewhere new- to the beach or south for winter. Other times, my pigeon wants to steal someone else’s lunch or picnic with a stranger’s leftovers. Often, my pigeon wants a good show and some freedom, to be
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Columbus Avenue, I’m the tense union of poor city rich city/
gentrification.
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Larry's next book, A Fly in My Ointment, is due out this summer
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- Do you get out much, Professor?
- How so? You mean to lectures?
- No, I mean, you know, say, a walk in the park, or, take in a movie, or, maybe take a chick out to dinner, show her a good time, get a few drink
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Like gymnastics, shoplifting is a discipline of youth.
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It felt like he'd just taken his marriage out into the woods, forced it to its knees, and put a bullet through its head. Or they had, together.
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In an early scene in Marvel's 2015 movie Ant-Man, the film's protagonist, Scott Lang, a convicted felon and former burglar, is summoned to his boss Dale's office at Baskin-Robbins."Three years at San Quentin, huh?" says Dale."You found out," Scott replies."Baskin-Robbins…
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Boys of summer in Yonkers played stickball and baseball.
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One day a woman, one of several translators at Ellis Island, asks him why he has changed a passenger’s name from Checzowicz to something else.
“The name was too long,” he says. “Ten letters.”
She replies, “But you didn’t change O’Shaughnessy, and it has
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... a moth,
a kiss. A silence.
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my exposed
flu-ridden head
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As soon as she left, I sat down at the computer. Booted up. Read my e-mail, then looked at pictures of bare-naked ladies.
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A brief commentary on the uselessness of endings.
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I’ll bring the naproxen sodium so we won’t have any problem grabbing things.
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A cruel panther gets its prey.
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It was one of those dinner parties where everyone had had a little too much to drink, and the conversation around the table had grown more . . . shall we say, spirited.
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Matilda went wild at sixty-five. Legs left unshaven for the first time in fifty years, hair still and proud, knotted with forgetting. She’d roam the streets at night, a traveler without design. Matilda was a gardener of sorts, digging up all previous assu
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