2226 6 5
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She believes that this started with a phone call when she walked out of the deli yesterday. She believes that it started when it was snowing this morning in Brooklyn, waiting for her car to arrive, but the truth is, this journey began a long time ago.
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2226 14 4
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He had the cannonball head of Hemingway, the stump neck, sloping shoulders and barrel chest.
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2226 8 3
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Was I a dreamer? Was I asking for too much?
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2226 25 12
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The next day on YouTube, 3,558,019 users watched the clip of Kate dangling next to Jay Leno's chin.
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2226 14 7
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a question that (never) left
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2226 5 3
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He blew out the candle. There was the tang of candle smoke, scattered by a sudden rush of wings, and the immediacy of another breathing thing in the dark. I heard the birdcage open, and the bird fluttering in there without crying out.
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2225 6 4
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burning for You, caught in between, yearning to remain completely wrapped around Your finger, feeling panoramic, and this alive.
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2225 4 1
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His body echoed in the mirror/
cracked into distant images
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2224 21 11
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" trout hovered in a sun-dappled pool"
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2224 15 15
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What happens in heaven stays in heaven.
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2224 7 1
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It was a sloppy little factory town that could be beautiful, but never bothered trying. Sits on a big lake. More bars than churches, and too many of both. Racist. We hated anybody who didn’t believe in white Jesus
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2223 2 1
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It was a subtle change. Jeffrey's grandmother was never graceful. Her figure was like a garbage bag filled with rounded masses of leaves and the unexpected angle of the odd stick, the entire shambling affair draped in soiled and yellowed hand-knit clothing…
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2223 2 0
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I was afraid of needles and ponds of water and I was transfixed by both.
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2223 5 1
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I’ve never liked birds. There’s something smug about the way they look at us, we prisoners of gravity, something self-congratulatory in their songs. Maybe I’m just projecting my own feelings about being stuck on the ground, attributing attitudes t
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2222 1 1
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2222 15 8
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It is pain taking a form, Plato’s dream, born from your hands father that rejected me, giving me the color of abandonment, eyes dulled by isolation, a body deceased without life-giving touch.
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2222 4 0
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He had what was commonly referred to in junior high as the ‘bullshit mustache’.
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2221 18 13
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"You know, there really is a death of the heart."
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2221 5 3
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“I take him to see all those sexy movies,” she said, “because it puts the passion back in him. I love what he does to me when we get back home after those movies.”
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2221 15 12
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Flexeril and Hydrocodon... For my back
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2221 8 2
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“They’re Rocky Mountain Oysters,” the blond said. “Fresh. You’ll absolutely love them Jim.”
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2221 10 3
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I can feel everything getting closer, the past catching up. All the cunts and cocks and clits I've ever touched. I left them all on the other side of the world, and now they're creeping back to me.
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2221 17 5
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I turn my head. Time starts running.
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2220 6 7
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The doorbell rang while Ron was masturbating.He closed his eyes tight. Tried to hold the image of Lori bent over the arm of the couch. No use. It was gone. Ron sighed, then levered the recliner down. Tied on the terry-cloth robe Lori had given him. He kicked aside an empty…
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2220 1 1
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Let's be honest. Ugly people have an uphill battle in this culture. From the time they slide out of their ugly mothers they stand at the plate with two strikes.
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2220 7 4
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This part of her digital garden is not impressive, slightly sloppy, even haphazard. However, her avatar is an attractive woman with good make-up.
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2220 5 3
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He looked up as he reached the intersection, and crossed as it cleared. His head was down again as he walked toward his car, which was parked beside a schoolyard, where junior high students were involved in an after-school game of touch football. He smi
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2219 9 7
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when unicorns took to flight / the poles shifted / the world flooded / and Pangaea busted open like calloused palm
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2219 15 12
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This is the best kind of crime scene.
Spattered like gore from gunshots,
I'm left covered in trace evidence.
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2219 8 5
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You may gather from me
the spring of my youth
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