2220 3 0
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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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2220 3 1
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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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2219 6 1
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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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"Michael has had no drink, no cigarette, no illicit drug and very little illicit sex since September 14, 1989."
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it ate her and then I was next in line
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2218 8 4
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“Can I?” Lily asked.
I gave her a nod. She tore at the package with greedy fingers. As the paper fell away to reveal yet another self-help volume, Lily cocked her head in a gesture of confusion and curiosity. Following her gaze to the lipstick-red
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2218 10 8
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On the bus Jenna looked out the window at the bleak fuckscape.
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his dreams are filled / with aprons
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In the dread / of night, navigate by the sliver moon
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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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It was fun, until he started winning every time.
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Sometimes, under the gauze and yellow salves, I glimpse you...
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2217 4 4
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Fifi is one piece of work, from the Ann Coulter Tits-And-Ass Rattlesnake School Of Broadcasting Venom And Bullshit Like Goebbels...
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2217 8 5
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Sometimes you have to make sacrifices to get where you need to be.
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2215 4 3
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The abandoned body got up and left the room. It was just in time to greet his wife and daughter, who were just coming in the front door.
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2215 21 8
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Women with tremulous breasts. Going down the swimming pool drain.
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Do you suppose you could make your female protagonist a salamander rather than a human?
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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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2214 7 2
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Sylvia Plath killed herself while her children slept upstairs, breakfast ready at their doors. Anne Sexton wanted to do it, but Sylvia got there first, making Anne just a little less remarkable, although she tried often enough, her death like a song put on repeat. …
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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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Could sampans fall upward, sailing from the bottom of the Earth? If so, which way would their sails bend—up, or down? And would the strange China Sea follow suit? Would salt water geysers spurt from the hole we dug, flooding the streets of Seattle?
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“What was the line in the movie Dad?...
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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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2213 16 13
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1. Everyone disappears.2. Stars map themselves.3. The moon fills her bathtub over and over. You can't watch it for too long or you go mad, shouting, "Just get in, get in!"4. The ghosts of certain broken poets stand under apple trees and lean their hands on the…
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2213 9 3
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Midway through the fall semester, an unremarkable girl in Professor Woody's Advanced Fiction workshop dyed her hair an unnatural shade of dark, changed her name to Tasmina, and turned in a story filled with made-up words.
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I came down with polio on September 15, 1953, a mild, smoky day drawing close to autumn outside of Chicago — which also happened to be the exact date of my parents' twenty-first wedding anniversary. Only six months later the Salk vaccine was already b
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Go to your room. Children are meant to be seen not heard.
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“Do you ever read writingand wish that it was about you?That you caused the epic fucking swell of emotions?That you were the only one capable of the rescue? Do you ever read writingand feel it so intensely?Like every word is an angry and desperate misfiring…
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I ask because she's the animal person, not me. She understands animal behavior.
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