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I was a gangly 11 years old, a year before the Watergate hearings pre-empted the afternoon cartoons on television, when I discovered an uncle's girlie magazine during routine reconnaissance of my grandmother's hall closet.
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230201
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Gordon He pressed the side of his face to the pillow and waited for the sound of birds. The room was black, the window open; when a breeze came the curtains billowed out against a lighter sky. He heard the clock. He heard the dry sound of Helen breathing;…
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23022012
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...I pray for the animal souls I have taken -- panther, gazelle, hyena, vulture...
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230299
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Quite frankly you are ruining my life. / I know you don’t mean to, but you are.
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230113
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I’m at the kitchen sink washing down pills when they bump up my driveway in a blue Toyota pick up, its bed eaten through with rust so bad I can see past the holes in the body to the frame.
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230100
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Her body shivered from the liquid and she felt loose. Her mind relaxed and a veil of pink mist covered her body.
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2300144
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One of the women is a brassy blond, and when she takes off her coat, I almost choke on a French fry.
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23001211
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I learned to love what we had: the long, bright days, the water all around us, and even their slithery bodies, which somehow never dried under the pounding sun.
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23001411
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“What was the line in the movie Dad?...
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230062
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A piece of her skull landed here. But it fell off. Then I couldn't find it.
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23001510
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Life was small. It was tiny even, so tiny it was hard to see it sometimes. Life curled up to make itself even smaller, to fit into the kinds of holes that insects crawl into to get away from bigger insects. Life was sad. Life didn't want to be an insect.
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2300218
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Women with tremulous breasts. Going down the swimming pool drain.
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2300171
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We are in search of free hor d’oeuvres, me and Jane – Jane from H.R., Jane who is exactly as plain as her name implies, Jane, who, for now anyway, for this company retreat, is my kindred spirit in broke-ass hangover land.
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23003914
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The so-called good, a weak but whiny lot, who actually clung to that abstract of "justice for all," would tattle to Mrs. Pufry...Mzzz Puffy, she hit me...Mzzz Puffy he said the bad word...Mzzz Puffy, I gotta go...Mzzz Puffy, Thomas is hanging in the cloak
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229800
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The calls were going through her as if her whole head had become a wireless receiver. She absolutely did not understand how or why that was happening, but the physical evidence was impossible to ignore.
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229781
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Ted did not understand turn-of-the-century costume dramas, and because he didn’t understand them, he often referred to them as "chick flicks" or "English crap." Even when the principals were not British. Even when the principals were Winona Ryder.
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229710
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Not that Dick Cheney gave one rusty rat's ass about what the UN might want. Fuck those poop countries!
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2297196
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He was entirely guilty of what he had done and wanted that to be acknowledged and understood by the arresting officer.
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2297106
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It was fun, until he started winning every time.
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22961913
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On the bed he tickled her until she was crying with laughter. And then the tickles became caresses, the fingers, lips.
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229675
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You worry that the mullahs suspect us, but that cannot be. We never touch in public. You weep and I shake when a neighbor knocks on the door.
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22961513
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I ask because she's the animal person, not me. She understands animal behavior.
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229594
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I think that I write toward death and to stave off death and to remember the dead and to address what is dead in me.
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229587
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Walk alone at night, quietly. Pause for eye contact with raccoons and night cats, your drunk self, and lights in the graveyard. Don't apologize for it in the morning. Instead of the shame you feel for one time acting selfishly and chasing a future, say…
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229530
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They always referred to her as the possum woman back home. She scoured the streets just as the sun fell into deep slumber behind the sentinel, sun tanned shoulders of the mountains encircling small town anywhere.
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2295126
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I watch as my character falls lifelessly to the ground. I press the square button and I am instantly revived.
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22952424
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229531
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Sure, it was a hot day, but the driver was in the middle of a driving lesson!
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229411
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Everyone asks that question. The short answer is: he brought it on himself.
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2294117
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It had been Tom at the wharf who strode over to greet me, his friend Tom with the small spectacles standing at the bar. “Write it when you get home,” Bella said. I was wearing the same beads.
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