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Arthur farts. Pandemonium. Miss O'Kelly shouts, “Quiet!” 32 nine year-olds freeze. “Close your books, fold your hands on your desk, put your heads down.” Obedience. Silence. Until…
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231100
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A poison bouquet of Merlot and brown floor muck bloomed in Seth’s nose. It’s one thing to sniff a freshly decanted red and another thing to shower in it.
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231001
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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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231000
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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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231099
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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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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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23081411
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“What was the line in the movie Dad?...
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230862
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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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2308135
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It was already dead and was hanging from her ceiling.
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230861
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"My god," Toni said, bending over and tapping her head gently against the counter in fake anguish. "His ass in those jeans. Jesus. I should be young and lucky like you." Toni tapped her cigarette ash into the coin tray.
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it ate her and then I was next in line
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230794
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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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230787
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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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23072012
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...I pray for the animal souls I have taken -- panther, gazelle, hyena, vulture...
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2307196
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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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23072716
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"A prostitute of the Hotel Khadijah in Rahab fell in love with my father...."
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230681
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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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2306144
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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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230594
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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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230530
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By my calculations, all hell is uncoiling. At the moment, this fact is not really obvious to anyone, but I'm confident that will change soon enough.
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23051510
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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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2305106
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It was fun, until he started winning every time.
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2304117
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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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2304171
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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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230330
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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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230311
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Everyone asks that question. The short answer is: he brought it on himself.
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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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230210
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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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2302126
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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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