2480 3 4
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My tongue is clicking.
I want to act out.
I want an unprofessional bargain.
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2480 10 3
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The first thing one notices about rocks is they are essentially quiet creatures. Adverse to long discourses or extended bouts of conversation, they nevertheless are quite engaged in life.
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2479 17 9
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I want you to kiss me like you’re listening to my tongue. I want you to hear the rhythm of my heart through my lips. Can you feel what I’m telling you? If you’re entering my borders, it doesn’t matter where - my mouth, my pussy, my ear... you’d better pay
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2479 3 2
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We fucked in the backseat like the verse of a b-side, and that was enough to make him think my boys were half of his body.
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2478 3 3
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'Tis a cruel season. I have nothing and no means to order anything. Nobody to shop for and nobody to buy things for me. But the catalogues keep coming. And these catalogues don't bring out the best in me. The catalogues switch on what I call my want switc
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2478 4 2
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He (after learning of my former occupation as a record store owner): So, what is your favorite band of all time?
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2478 6 2
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His hands fumble over my curves like he’s petting his golden retriever. He wears in inexperience on his face like I wear my mascara.
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2478 0 0
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She saw mana from the pendant floating to her chest and its resonance pulsed with her heart, yet it felt empty. Unaware of what she had done, she reached out to it, thought of a name, and called for it.
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2478 1 0
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- Do you get out much, Professor?
- How so? You mean to lectures?
- No, I mean, you know, say, a walk in the park, or, take in a movie, or, maybe take a chick out to dinner, show her a good time, get a few drink
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2477 27 17
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Oh what fun they had riding that bike! What adventures! They went everywhere, in town and out.
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2477 12 11
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fun fact: a doll's legs will twitch
while being scalped
but only for just a little bit
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2475 10 9
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"Maybe so, but you have seen those photos in the National Geographic, right? Do you really want to risk it?" she demands and I sigh in defeat.
I wake up at midnight, hot from too many blankets and pull my bra off through the sleeves of my shirt. I th
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2475 24 23
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That evening I sat and watched the sunset. The color of the water changed from blue to black. The sky turned from pink to star-spangled ebony. There was no moon.
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2475 1 1
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The Sentinels held up their weapons at the main door, preparing for a fight. Lori saw the look on the girl’s eyes, something she felt she should not see in them.
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2474 7 4
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2474 8 5
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I read the last line and close the book with a smack. “That ends that section,” I tell him. “Coming up is the chapter titled ‘The Ancient History of the Sewers of Paris.'
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2473 9 2
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spreading gilded pages with a tlickt
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2472 33 24
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No one explained triumph
would feel like this.
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2472 11 8
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2471 4 3
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I’ve paid my dues in this dimension/
so show me where the rest of them are
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2471 19 14
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Co-polar order spectrum; strobe genre (the disco light of the 70s illumining and eclipsing fiction-non-fiction-non in one "article"); UTAH! a jump from forehead-down to standing fast, a cheer, for genre studies.
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2471 2 0
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Hanging was back and thriving - twice a week at half seven in the evening.
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2469 9 9
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Frisbee dog. Stealth the cat. Read more. Cut toenails. Less wine. Bind the ties. Avoid mirrors. Divide water.
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2469 8 3
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My resistance sublimates. There is a long instant of absolute relinquishment, in which I imagine droplets of water plinking into my lungs in a slow, musical fashion, like icicles melting in a perfect cave.
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2469 18 13
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Instead of julienning the fava beans you could, instead, slip your linen shirt off your pink shoulders and hang it on a tree branch like a white flag yelling “I don’t want to fight anymore, goddamit, this aftenoon is beautiful.”
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2469 3 0
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Imagine, if you will, the heartland of America–the Mississippi River Valley–as a woman sprawled out on a bed.
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2468 17 11
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(Insert poignant line here)
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2468 14 9
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She doesn't even know who wears the Adam's apple in this house.
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2468 5 3
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leave a trail of potential weapons dropped from your shaking hands. you must always make it easy for him to follow.
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2467 9 6
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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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