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To his astonishment, he discovered Maggie curled up inside the Maytag dryer, head down, shoulders hunched over.
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Come home, my love, and live.
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1. The clouds and the shadows of the clouds. The early light, like the night undressing herself revealing pink beneath, underneath the glory and the intimacy like early love made of arms only arms fingers and…
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A mile down the road, they found Denny’s. It was only four in the afternoon so there was no wait and the couple sat right away.
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Trapped inside a seashell, almost pickled and eaten for dinner—could my life become any more bizarre?
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The young boy picks up a coin that has rolled to his feet. It is warm, too warm considering the cold air streaming around him.
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The city's hung in flashlights.
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I remember the first time I saw her. I'd just pushed through the crowded bar and waited to place my order.
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You are terrified. You light/
the autopilot light and trust//
the small machineries of self/
to land things safely,
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I shuddered. This is how we are chosen
by strange and silent hands.
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We lived in a Holiday Inn trying not to be depressed that life had turned out to be so much like Eastenders, trying not to acknowledge that the thrill we’d got out of each other was the thrill of giving in to the wrong thing. We had more sex than ever b
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It’s not every day that a girl like me gets greeted with a hairy beast that orgles and spits when excited. Didn’t help none that it only had one eye. Poor little ole bugger.
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From the way she scooped him from his buggy, shushed him, kissed his tears and hugged him...
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I am complicit in the darkness
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The Lorelei is my sherris ; Ibibio shall not want. Head count maketh me to lie down in green patchwork: Head count leadeth me beside the still watercress. Head count restoreth my sounding: Head count leadeth me in the pathway of Rig Veda for his Namen…
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...filled with the wildness, the inner sensibility of brilliance.
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Holly Hope had met Latest Girlfriend once and was
pleased to see that the woman wore stylish dresses, even if
the end results looked like Liz Claiborne had tried to clothe
a cigarette machine.
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"Something happened to me, Rasul, and I got these powers for a reason ... then I just happened to have a karaoke buddy who happens to have grown up in a family of magicians, who knew something about what I was going through? That's *fate*!"
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The story of my life/
would put insomniacs to sleep.
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Got a home repair question? Ask Mr. Fix-It! He usually knows the answer, and if not, your problem isn’t worth fixing.
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She sets the muffins aside, opens herself, nymph-like, mouth spread and gritty. She pulls the dirty edge of his gray t-shirt up so to show herself to him, spreads herself across the mattress like thin flesh oil over too much canvas....
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That’s when the inconspicuous-until-now janitor saunters over, glances down at their starlist and mumbles, “Don’t forget the sun,” and the astronomers all slap their foreheads and smile.
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If when he pulled his lips from mine he didn’t say a word, and if he didn’t try to explain or try to win me with bullshit...
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I walked her home.
She lived eight blocks in the opposite direction of me,
but it made her smile
—I made her smile.
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“Get ya hands outta there, ya filthy old cunt!” I look up, his distorted face hurling more abuse.
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Hanging was back and thriving - twice a week at half seven in the evening.
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She reached under the tissue and pulled out a third gift.
“It’s like peeling open my heart,” he said, “one layer for each year.”
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But tonight the circus is dark. She is free to go to her lover, to embrace, to float in the night sky.
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