1005 6 4
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I wanted you in the worst way
but that's not how I got you.
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1004 6 3
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It shows how ignorant your typical writer for a men's magazine read primarily by teenage boys can be. You must treat every woman as if she is a customer at a major appliance store.
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1004 2 1
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Do you mind if we cut the attack on the settlers, asked Sitting Bull. But that’s the center attraction, said Buffalo Bill. Everyone expects it. But it’s a lie, a gross misrepresentation, said Sitting Bull. I feel like I am endorsing a great fraud.
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TW: Self-harm. I wanted to write a mental health essay that wasn't all rah! rah! and with as little sentimentality as possible. Out of everything I've published, I've gotten the most feedback from this--people telling me it helped them understand a loved one better, etc.…
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"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is…
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There is no love triangle more tangled than that which snares a pet, its owner and an amorous veterinarian.
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like a reflection vanishes
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Jerry peered out into the dark landscape with no fear left.
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Scuttling on his knees now, he crossed to the other side of the boat and dropped the fish into a bucket of water. He knew what he had to do next.
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Who's that? I don't know. …
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The trio stuffed their grilling equipment in a battered van and left for Dixieland Speedway at 4:30 am.
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He said hopping trains don't get you out the pot, it only gets you to the other side. But whatever soup you're swimming in, you'll still be swimming in it.
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1002 4 4
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"It goes to infinity and back.That is how much I love you".She looked down into the sandplopped down and made a snow angel,Pushing the mudwith her arm and legs,like windshield wipersof a caron a rainy day"Auntie ... Auntie,How much I love you".
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1002 1 1
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“I come from a long line of Toad Kings,” Huckleberry said, “and we never back down from a bet.”Phyllis, a great white heron, lowered her long white neck so she could get a better look into her friend's golden eyes.“I just think you…
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1002 0 0
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...classic rock vibrating the walls...
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1002 0 0
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I went to NY to look for homeless ghosts and delirious minds...
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1002 1 0
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I’m walking funny but only comedians notice.
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1002 0 0
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There's a boarded up Chevron a few blocks down the street from where I used to live. I still pass it every now and again as I'm going to and from jobs. When I lived in the area, which was about three years ago, there was this one red-headed female gas jockey that seemed to…
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1001 0 0
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How far can a person drive until the outcome of a single stoplight no longer affects all the others.
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1001 2 2
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One hand holds the string-like railing; the other holds a bright silver toaster.
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1001 1 1
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Twig arms,
Send me back then back again.
The skeleton of our home
Lives above the town
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1001 2 1
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The small of her back,
where the downy hair stands upright
like wheat in the summer light.
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1001 1 1
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Outside the lattice of snow suspended in the air comes with traces of the glitter that was in her hair.
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1001 3 1
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If it had a surface, he painted it purple. If it didn’t have a surface, he painted it purple.
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1001 0 0
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Flowers I didn’t like God or else nature must have had some brief happiness over. But it’s just forgetfulness for an old goddess like me, goddess of the moon, of hunting, of chastity once, since now I have changed. My opened flowery bosom went on to bec
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1001 3 2
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No matter how many times
flies land on butter
they will never become
butterflies
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1001 1 0
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Split streams displace a spliced and shattered walkman with no connection of its dead batteries, projected into Styrofoam and plastic mirrors before hitting the brook water. Michael finds way, out of breath, eclipsed by an elm, his eyes visible with pupil
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1000 6 3
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c'mon honey let's go get stoned
the night is falling
where did you say we were going?
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1000 1 1
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“How did you come by a name like Vladimir?” I asked the toilet guard. “Sounds Russian.”
“My mother’s Russian. You got something against Russian?”
“No kidding?”
“Real KGB,” he said. “She was in it when they arrest my father. Only way he survive
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