2485 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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2484 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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2484 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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2484 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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2484 9 2
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spreading gilded pages with a tlickt
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2483 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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2482 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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2482 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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2481 7 4
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2481 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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2481 11 8
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2481 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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2480 33 24
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No one explained triumph
would feel like this.
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2480 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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2480 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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2479 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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2479 7 4
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Myrna woke up with a start and sensed a strange silence in the air. She quickly flipped on an electric switch and when the lights came on she breathed a sigh of relief. Dawn was just breaking so she went back to bed and pulled the comforter over her head.
|
2478 2 0
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Hanging was back and thriving - twice a week at half seven in the evening.
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2478 1 0
|
- 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 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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2476 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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2476 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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2476 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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2475 17 11
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(Insert poignant line here)
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2475 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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2475 1 0
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2474 14 9
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She doesn't even know who wears the Adam's apple in this house.
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2473 23 9
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Fred, who by that point had already wanted to call Jimmy "Jim," talked a river. Jimmy, who had already called her Freddy, took a mojo bag from his back pants pocket and asked her to write something that he could put inside.
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2473 2 1
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I hope you and asshole are having a good time.
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2473 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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