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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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20641512
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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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206496
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Six kinds of crazy, he said. That told me everything. It told me enough.
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20641310
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And here you are. Before your time. Behind the glass.
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20632422
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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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2063217
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We got married in a hospital. My bride had her appendix out the day before our wedding, so we decided to tie the knot in her room at Hoover Memorial.
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206200
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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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206241
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She didn’t say yes, but she didn’t say no. She didn’t say anything. So I helped her to the car and we didn’t talk along the way.
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20611612
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In all my marriage stories, I am both victim and hero.
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206112
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That sound. Bone against bone. Skin across skin. Blood fraying into the unknown dark. He loved that sound.
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206144
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“I changed religions for that baby.”
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206195
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For two days, I bashed out words with grimacing fingers, wrenching images from my whining consciousness – a weak, lumbering, uninspired piece – and now for what?
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20604314
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Tuesdays she worked afternoons at the bookstore, and he’d secretly go, buy a large order, sit in a corner with a newspaper. Fries covered in vinegar, veins of ketchup.
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And you know that notion just goes to show...
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Myrna woke up with a start and sensed a strange silence in the air. She quickly flipped on an electric switch and when the lights came on she breathed a sigh of relief. Dawn was just breaking so she went back to bed and pulled the comforter over her head.
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205997
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Should have washed our hands, we thought after, licking sugar-spit and dirt.
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20591511
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During war, as in any terrible time of upheaval, burials are merely quick words and a scattering of dirt, if the dead are lucky.
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205831
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She threw the wine glass on the floor.
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We argue on the way down. We bicker on the walk to the bistro. I get coffee and croissants at the bar and bring them back to our table, and she is still talking, proving me wrong, when I return.
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205710
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I sighed and looked deep into his eyes. “There is nothing more powerful than denial.”
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205700
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One of the runners was collecting bags of dead animals to bring back to the van. Nicholas looked inside one of the bags, but all he saw was a stringy mess of fur and tissue.
The runner grabbed the bag from Nicholas. He shrugged and said "hammers.
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205763
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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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2057198
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The one he liked best was a middle aged woman who didn't wear underwear. She had a terrific figure.
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205600
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Before Ciel could ask further, Sora pulled her arm. Ciel turned to the golem summoner and saw the look on her eyes, a silent warning not to push Azure.
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20561813
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"You know, there really is a death of the heart."
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20563515
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No jobs except drinking...
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There was man from antiquity that sat next to me. His belief in the healing qualities of Aloe Vera so pronounced, that the house brimmed with such. He had no use for modernity in any of its forms but was fond of supermarkets. When in one he was overwhelmed with an…
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205553
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For the woman with no arms, life is a constant dexterity demonstration
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205552
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It’s true that there are many accounts of fascinating Amish dinnerware, but none is more interesting than Samuel Stoltzfus’ Divining Plate, forged in 1881.
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We walk in silence. We water our plants. We don’t eat as well as we should. We try to love. We try to forget.
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