1010 4 2
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the echo of the hull's first contact with the water will pull the past through the present and the present into the past.
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101021
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If the pen travels over a sheet of paper, it is not long before a metaphor appears. A fast, beautiful metaphor like friendship, or deformity. Think of the pen as a penis and the ink as semen. I just sit and laugh. Time impregnates an opportunity and a lon
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101000
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I could reach out
and grab this world
by the p...
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101050
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It's the kind of neighborhood where the bar above the hot dog stand functions as a drug warehouse. Lowest prices, biggest selection, friendliest — highest — associates. I live here, a block over in the midst of sushi joints and frat boys, but I live…
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101032
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I would have given your son to you. I would have had him in a heartbeat. And I would have showed him your inner beauty, even though you were absent. I would have hidden nothing from his nature. I would have given him everything and anything he needed, s
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100965
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A petition submitted to the Planning Department of Palm Beach Florida requests a zoning variance applied to Mar — a — Lago. Studies, backed by research, have defined Mar-a- Lago, an ideal location for shelter and protection for immigrants, fleeing from…
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100930
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Valerie had purchased a new cell phone in late 2007, and, say a few months afterwards, in the beginning of 2008 a demon briefly took up residence in it. She had just returned home from running a few errands, and set her phone down on her desk. She had been focusing on…
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100900
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Dave Sharpe silently pulled his desk chair out of its nook that was conveniently placed underneath his desk. He took a deep breath as he slowly took his place in the seat and nudged it into a perfect…
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100900
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“Hello. How are you?” “Me? I'm fine actually. Just sitting here in this little coffee shop. Sipping my coffee. I like it black, did you know that?” “Like your men?” ‘Excuse me?” “It's a joke… from…
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100954
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Chin beards, flannel shirts, Levis
no boots anymore, just loose sandals
their chicks with double triple multiple chins
falling asleep on their own palms
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100954
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once he had planted Lucille things changed./his emptiness rivalled the hollow grave/dug for her . . .
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100954
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Fat, religious, full of himself,
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100901
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But all I see, the only irresolute shape in my mind that forms and becomes real, is you.
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100922
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Eager to please the guards, doctors and preachers
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100921
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Life is a beach, not an enormous ashtry.
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100975
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No CNN to sing obliteration,/
only Pliny the Younger/
to scratch what fell
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100900
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Ben did not respond, but sat staring lizard-eyed at the shattered remains of his glorious musical instrument.
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100833
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I come here, to this very spot for a reason. Imagine — the illusion of knowing what is and is not. The contentment drops taste — one could suppose — like that.
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100885
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I ate a tuna salad sandwich for lunch.
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100890
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...it didn’t take much to just toss it aside and muster up some fresh bravado.
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100800
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“That's Governor Gauda to you, punk!” This is the line from my speech “Killing Dennis Gauda.” The speech lost the Tall Tales competition at the division level, but I was unfortunate to have a chance to do this speech for Dennis Gauda …
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100840
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laying with you, thinking with you, breathing with you
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100830
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there are nights when you're all alonein the darkwhere the only lightis the glow of the computer screenand words can't seem the scratchthe surface of your skulland bit by bitthe sentences, phrases, and lettersattached to your synapsesdrownin your subconscious
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100851
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It had all been for the children, hadn´t it?
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100821
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There was a bottleneck ahead. We slowed down single-file, me behind, to wait our turn to pass the doorway of a vacant storefront church. In it, a lone black man sat atop an empty plastic milk crate. Nobody looked at him; they were all slowing down and cro
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100821
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“You’re just like me,” she said, as dawn was breaking. “You like sex.”
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100853
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A thrum of imminent sentience-
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100700
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Slowly
slowly
the veil is lifted
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100710
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She left the bathroom and slammed the bedroom door. He heard the lock close.
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100700
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The men stir around so aimlessly
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