2104 6 6
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He didn’t used to smell that way, like a rained-on boot, like the insides of a lived-on couch. ... He used to smell like he wore light, subcutaneous cologne.
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2104 2 0
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"James, can you take a peek at problem://7ac5e46f today?"
"It's just another big dumb object. Seems low priority."
"Escalated by the directorate."
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2104 4 1
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His body echoed in the mirror/
cracked into distant images
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2104 3 0
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While I had believed that the subject had been exhausted, that the bottomless pit of the individual navel gazer had been done to death, now here arrives How To Find Yourself to show that previous literature had only scratched the surface of the belly butt
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2103 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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2103 1 0
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It's possible I was having an acid flashback or some kind of semi-conscious when I opened the door of #3.
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2102 0 0
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Kyo held her hand gently and stared at the bracelet as Brie explained everything that happened. It was painful to hear.
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2101 9 4
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You have been my woman’s lover now for
seven years, ever since your two souls met
at La Isla Negra.
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2101 3 3
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He pushed aside the netting and trained the flashlight on the dripping courtyard. Rivers ran off the wide pinanona leaves, surged through fissures in the crumbling wall.
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2101 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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2101 0 0
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Her letter ends with her best words: No one will ever love you like I do. Beneath, she draws a heart, sad eyes, two jewel tears. Yours forever, Dawn. Hole by hole, not to wake her sister, she pulls the paper free, creases, folds again, then cuts…
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2101 6 3
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“Life cannot continue at a breakneck pace, because it is breaking too many necks,” the Health Czar told the President.
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2100 5 2
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When she awoke in her yard, she poured what was left of the rum into the dead grass. The man beside her lay with fingers curled, a claw she’d found wedged up her skirt when she woke. Tom, she said, his name nonsense, tongues. Might as well have been any
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2100 13 10
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And here you are. Before your time. Behind the glass.
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2100 19 15
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"You're publishing too much too / quickly. We think that's unhealthy. We want you / to slow down. You're becoming a fame whore."
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2099 11 9
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2099 5 1
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"From up here the city lights burn like a thousand miles of fire," he croaked, his voice scratchy from sobbing. In pinpoints of illumination he imagined his wife - *former* wife - Calli in that Mustang convertible he'd gotten her for a birthday surprise
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2099 32 11
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Jane watched her mother remove her wedding ring with butter.
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2099 16 13
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The Bond Trader begins his morning with coffee and a hit of LSD.
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2099 17 10
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He kissed her tits and thought of art
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2098 14 10
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. . . and the last thing you’ll smell will be new-cut pine.
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2098 1 1
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"Geez," I thought, "not only is this daredevil felon fellow my EXACT height and build — his co-conspiring gal-pal must be, too!" I exhaled what felt like a gallon’s worth of air though my nose. "This is just getting too fucking weird ..."
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2098 9 6
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Six kinds of crazy, he said. That told me everything. It told me enough.
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2098 0 0
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When the scrapbook came out this time, I noticed a photo I hadn't seen before, the Baroness with her arm around the waist of Princess Diana. A lavish display of blooms towered behind them.
"Did you know her?" the florist asked.
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2098 6 3
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She...learned the ways of men, especially foreign men, who eyed her mother even as they passed around pictures of their children, wallet-bound photographs that included their reluctantly smiling wives.
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2097 12 11
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pressing my hands into the voice in the bed,
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2097 7 2
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You look just like your mom
she says
I LOL her and say, funny
cuz you look just like yours
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2097 2 0
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The specialist had kept what he'd taken out of Sue May. I made an appointment with him and was shown it floating in a jar of clean unguent.
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2097 10 8
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The girl put her elbows on the table and rested her chin in cupped hands and this was for comfort but she appeared symmetrical the way an etheric visitor might and the brightness was just then trying to find a way through an opening in morning dining room…
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2096 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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