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I’ll bring the naproxen sodium so we won’t have any problem grabbing things.
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I was in the kitchen peeling onions. They stung my eyes, and perhaps I was crying. I heard my dear husband run into the room and turned with the knife in my hand.
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When I was a boy, I always wondered if Dad were black. No one in our small town looked like Dad. He had the thick features of an Arab. If he let his hair grow, it piled up in messy loafs on his head. Of course, I never asked Dad about any of this. I wasn'
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Larry's next book, A Fly in My Ointment, is due out this summer
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I used to charm you,
hold you in my hand.
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Dear Erin,And people call ME a pussy. Fuck you,The Cunt
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I am complicit in the darkness
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I don't know what happened to all the men. Used to wonder if they killed them all.
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Chelsea's breasts are more the size of tangerines, but he likes them. He likes that she smells like Fruit Loops and that her front teeth overlap slightly. Her mouth is glossed. He slips his tongue inside.
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I am a 33 year old drag queen, and I frequently confuse my dreams with reality. Each morning, I awake to a research project: what has actually occurred, and what was a dream? Today I woke up believing I'd lost a pound, so I weighed myself, and I was right.…
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We watched kids tweeze snapping turtles out of the park grass. They dropped them into a styrophoam cup and called it the snap turtle home. When they grow up they will bite your arms off, their father said laughing.
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Yet it was another thing to grow to become indispensable to someone without whose infirmities the helper could not exist. People in general had started to call that helpless requiring “codependency,” but to Althea that word did no good,
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on the far shore, in the vineyards
timed charges explode like the sun catching on fire
it scares crows away from the grapes
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Somehow, random phrases and sentences from the stories, comments and profile pages were generated as “replies”.
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Andreas Cappelanus taught that the word / “love” comes from the word meaning / “to fish.”
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It's a lie, it doesnt mean anything this, only that my lips are ripe and soft.
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Sometimes she imagined the piles of Dr. Nishad's medical waste at the end of productive day at the hospital. Stacks and heaps of connective tissue, lung matter, gristle and bone, cancerous clumps of tongue and stomach and ropes of bad muscles like wrung,
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2527 3 2
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The dismantled moon was not cold in our hands, but warm, smooth beneath its shell as baby flesh. The musk of its damp, stringy innards filled us with sorrow.
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The city's hung in flashlights.
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2527 3 1
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I arrived at Yaddo, the prestigious artists’ retreat, in the summer of 1941. With America’s “day that will live in infamy” several months away, my own day of infamy began the second morning of my residency.
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2527 18 13
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Donnie remembers just in time. So we run practically every stop sign and red light in town, and get there just before they close.
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The story of my life/
would put insomniacs to sleep.
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2526 9 7
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I never looked at her face.
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2525 6 3
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when the devil dies he divides enough evil for everybody
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So I walk behind Sandra’s desk and I put my radioactive tum-tum right up to her beaded dreadlocks and I tell her about the nuclear energy that is flowing through her right now. She laughs and screams at me the way I am sure her daughter does when someone
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On Friday nights I'm not there.
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It's July, which, if you work in a public library, means that the Summer Reading Club is in full swing. The SRC used to be just for kids, to motivate them to read when school wasn't in session. But in recent years many libraries have expanded the program to include…
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"There's a guy and he's standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon."
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