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Two minutes later Alicia Morgan stepped out of her car. Her smile faltered momentarily and he saw that she assumed the mistake was hers
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102243
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We could act the anthropologist.
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102220
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A debacle has been scheduled for 11:45...
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102200
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All Karin did was watch from the street. No movement. No reaction. She just watched.
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102286
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Billy's days were much like his yesterdays, with little hope the ones to come would be any different.
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102220
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(...) Suddenly there is a tram passing by and kills the Sausage (...)
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102242
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You don't see the bruises ... you can't foresee the pain. It's intense, so deep and yet so volatile, in vain. He slapped my head once more while he uttered for the millionth time the same old words again: "You're a loser and you'll never win. I hate for you to be my…
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102243
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102140
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We spent that entire winter with shaky hands and shrunken egos.
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102133
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"As soon as you're born, they make you feel small."--John LennonI cannot do anything about how beautiful you are, my sour flower, but I can tell you this much: Joni Mitchell is better than all the cowards in the world. They all chose to somehow…
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102100
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It might have had something to do with the boy’s pet hog, which was hulking, ageless, and liked eating poppy seed muffins
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102162
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Look, “Wolfie,” (or “Pharaoh,” or whatever your name is now) a little too much information, don’t you think? I don’t need to hear all the details about you and Sharon. It’s my life, and I’ll cry if I want to – to alter the song just a
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102144
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Wheels are spinning
On the country roads tonight
I’m driving all alone
No one else in sight
And the wind’s in my hair
And I don’t care
Yeah, the wind’s in my hair
And I don’t care
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102111
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The lock came off easy—they only screwed a hinged hasp on the outside—it took a hard shove to get past a chair barricading the door. As I pushed my way in I heard a screeching crash. Lucky nobody was around. It was my first time bidding on a sheriff's sale…
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102100
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Flies as big as raisins sucked spit off his lip as he slept. Not sleep in the strictest sense of the word because guys like him don't sleep, they merely avoid life between rampages. And this guy, well, he's gonna wish he'd avoided life a bit longer because when he…
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102120
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A thrill seeker before midnight - but closer to twilight ...
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102100
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When Prince Rainier III asked an expert whether there was a literature of Monaco, her research produced only a suggestive ode to a fig and a poem about a fart.
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102000
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They were an interesting young couple. Tom was a big man with rugged features, though not handsome. His face was deeply pock-marked with the scars that are sometimes left over from a terrible bout with adolescent acne. His wife – though I was never cert
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1020106
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Mothers and sons and war, an old story...
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102001
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“So he rounds up three bums and says he'll buy 'em a case of beer if they’ll do a job for him. All they have to do is ride around in a car for his campaign. Of course they all said yes.”
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102051
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Sand atop a trickling potentially,where roundabout rides hideunbegun business, the trickling of sand at any moment.
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10201110
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It was a cruel question, coming on breath that stank of the grave.
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102065
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Then it gets worse—this reading of books—I go to the café and can only read a minimalist there, one crouton at a time.
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102011
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What about the poor nobodies to somebodies being tossed like wet rags onto more wet rags?
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102030
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this is one of those
"there are two kinds of people"
sort of things.
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102010
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my tiny white world, the cube in the closet in the back above the shelving in a secret compartment cut into the wall
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102000
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our house gives him a cold again
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102000
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I’ll give you a pair of grey cement pumps
then into the river, your body I’ll dump.
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102040
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There's a surprise for you!Why did she think I would have been pregnant? I hadn't seen her for ages, neither people she knew, so it wasn't my weight ...She opened the door, a sigh of relief on her face, thank God she thought ... She isn't.The surprise was we came to visit,…
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101922
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the visual field is an in-rushing city of refractions bouncing across the water.
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