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You like your life. Ducks march in a row. You've reached a certain age but you're strong. Healthy. You've got food, clothing, shelter. You have insurance and important papers. You don't have a man in your life, and you admit— Admit nothing. The…
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[TURN-ONS: willingness. TURN-OFFS: rejection.]
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On a visit, Jesus sees bracelets with WWJD. What does that mean? he asks. What Would Jesus Do? they respond. I wouldn’t wear that, he says.
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Trent’s had many phases: Madonna, Bette, leather, water sports, rollerblading, haiku, chicken queen, rice queen, muscle queen, daddy. But religion? This is new.
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once wedding cake
under pillows.
now fluffy frosting
on squashed defeat
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A woman with spirit appeals to men who fish because she is still alive.
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Let’s be honest, you were cheating on your girlfriend, and I would’ve slept with anyone
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a mid-life crisis in 55 words
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It’s two o’clock in the morning, and I’m lying in bed, wide awake, drenched in sweat. I know what I need–a Thin Mint cookie–but I don’t know where I’m gonna find one.
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I scare my daughter when she sleeps because she thinks I'm going to kill her.
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Carthage, Rome subdued:/itself, Rome never long tamed./Memento mori.
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Last summer our marriage took a direct hit and crashed into a deep pit with little warning when Millicent met a Facebook man and simply left, taking up with him, presenting him with my space in her life to receive her touch and this thought perpetually gnaws away, making me…
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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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She stuffed the stars down her stockings
and left;
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Daddy? Yes, hun. What do you think about life? Did you ask your mother? I'm asking you. (lowers newspaper) Well, (squinting eyes) life gives you so much pumpkin. ! and (like a whip) and..? (brows almost touching the hairline)…
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"The cops are just doing what they're being paid to do."
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Katie loved butterflies. Katie loved daisies. Mainly, Katie loved presents.
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There are hundreds of fireflies crackling along the tree line and the old stonewall.
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I was afraid of needles and ponds of water and I was transfixed by both.
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Helen’s mind is not on business. It’s on a pinpoint, a potential, a something so microscopic it’s more a nothing. In her center, it hums.
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Two-way conversation with God.
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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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"I can't believe my 'best friend' and my 'girlfriend' would actually start dating if I authorized and coordinated repeated threesomes for us!" Robert Eww was saying, holding aloft a dagger and book, with an olive wreath around his head.
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There are times when I run out of places to sleep. I thought my whole life that god gave up on me. The newspaper bin is where I go when I'm desperate. In the center of town there's a large bin for recycling newspapers behind…
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It wasn't until later that I realized that any time a teacher complimented you on your use of imagination, it was because they didn't know what else to make of whatever you'd created. My homemade narrative video in lieu of the assigned “getting to know y
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A shoelace should know its place in the world.
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Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.
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For the woman with no arms, life is a constant dexterity demonstration
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His movements were slowed by the metaphysical force of his own passing recollections, and he brushed from his face the silt he'd distrurbed on this forced descent.
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