2364 7 5
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The base of the monastery before him, he let her go into a warm updraft and she cascaded out and up, never falling as she rode the tiger into her next.
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2363 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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“Your mother has problems,” he told the kids.
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I HAVE NOTHING MORE TO SAY TO YOU, she lisps, and, with this, the fissure in the man’s head reaches the bottom of his chin and the hollow head splits in two.
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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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2362 21 11
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" trout hovered in a sun-dappled pool"
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2362 28 12
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At some point, we will have to shoot them/
through the eyes and skull and heart
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2362 2 1
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It was too young to be love.
We were 5,
a buzz-cut me,
and you,
plated with babyteeth
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2361 0 0
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A behind the scenes look at the character designs of the Arcana Magi Universe.
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2361 0 0
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Which well-known Portland celebrity did I at-first-unwittingly accost at the Aug. 2007 Thermals show, hitting them up for $0.50 so I could get a slice of pizza ?
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2360 28 24
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The locals cut stone in quarries, built elevators at the Cummins plant in Columbus, or brewed shine back in the hills between Bean Blossom and Gnaw Bone.
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2360 6 4
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The day the thinking factory imploded everyone for miles knew there was a problem. The sound of the walls crumbling in upon themselves was heard for miles, or perhaps it wasn't.
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2359 21 14
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2359 1 1
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He didn’t know how to tell his story. It wasn’t an easy story to tell. There certainly was a clear beginning, but it didn’t make much sense to start at the beginning. There was no way to end the story either; the ending seemed to last forever.
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2359 19 13
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old men with crispy sunburnt ears
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2359 24 22
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But I came back around, after Robert Kennedy got shot, with one hand up your skirt and the other on the gear shift...
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2358 14 7
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All week my crew and I waited for the snuff party. An obscure fete where someone gets killed strictly for the entertainment and viewing pleasure of others. Before you judge us know this, people die every day for no reason at all.
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2358 9 9
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feeling obligated to write/ is like feeling/ obligated to fuck.
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2357 2 3
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I am remembering this day for all days. Remembering. All days. Always. This is the day you threw the TV out the upstairs window. I'm remembering. Always. This is the day that started with you shaking the toaster over me so all the crumbs fell out.…
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2357 16 14
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ornery women / in tall hats, suspender dads, kids deformed with / ribbons
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2357 17 8
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They are running the bulls in Pamplona
this afternoon and they have no idea
how to do this and they are
way too old for this
and they want to relive their youth
and run the bulls in Pamplona
They want to drink like Ernest Hemingway
and run
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2356 21 11
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“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
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2355 8 5
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Watch me sleep. Say I'm lovely, marbled-white. Pretend my forest is other to me. Pretend I am what you have made me. The sugar-almond starlet. Your virgin. Your treasure to break into. Believe me unconscious. It is you who are the dreamer. Look how those thorny…
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2355 0 0
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Azure leaned on the wall outside the gymnasium. She pulled back the sleeve of her blouse and saw the shackle glow. Azure realized that her feet dragged across the ground, leaving behind straight-line grooves on the grass beside the sidewalk.
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2355 2 0
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I wore a padded bra. Proud of my tits. D. ordered a Bloody May, I had a vodka tonic. After the second drink I slipped out into the fog, and smoked a little weed. I could see Long Island College Hospital across the street. To my right, the BQE rose up
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2355 2 1
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In the blue of the yard the twins boil and scrape,
twisting about beneath the sycamore tree.
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2354 0 0
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“Stay there Alysia!” Brie said from behind as she ran toward them. The Sentinel used Alysia’s back as a step and launched herself into the air with Legacy over her head.
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2354 13 8
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I still believe in the very slim chanceI might say something luckyenough to reach your truest insides, your at homespirit, that you will hearand understand ascare on my part, evenif you can never quiteidentify me asits secret sender, that warm…
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2354 20 8
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A supermodel, carrying a large Valentine’s box, fell on the ice.
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2353 6 5
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Daniel told himself to push. -- push harder than he'd ever pushed himself before. He reminded himself of what his father once told him: don't give in to pain. Be a real man. You can take it.
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