2058 1 2
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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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2058 7 3
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She didn't care for the taste. Slightly salty and sweet at the same time, but she let him come in her mouth just the same
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2057 15 10
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...skinny love, skinned and thinned weak broth love...
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2057 13 10
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And here you are. Before your time. Behind the glass.
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2057 9 6
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Six kinds of crazy, he said. That told me everything. It told me enough.
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2057 4 1
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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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2056 15 11
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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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2055 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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2055 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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2055 4 4
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“I changed religions for that baby.”
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2054 7 4
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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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2054 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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2054 9 5
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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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2052 25 14
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And you know that notion just goes to show...
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2052 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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2051 3 1
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She threw the wine glass on the floor.
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2051 0 0
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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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2051 19 8
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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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2050 1 0
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I sighed and looked deep into his eyes. “There is nothing more powerful than denial.”
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2050 13 9
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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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2050 6 1
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The imitator’s segue to his sad life story was, “But what isn’t funny…”
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2050 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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2049 9 7
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Should have washed our hands, we thought after, licking sugar-spit and dirt.
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2049 5 3
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For the woman with no arms, life is a constant dexterity demonstration
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2049 12 7
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I draw your location on my thighs. It takes up both legs; it’s far. I think about showing you but something comes up. The phone rings. I tell her I don’t want to donate to the PBA.
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2049 0 0
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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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2048 8 6
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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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2048 23 10
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The knife that precedes the bigger knife that precedes the spoon that precedes the flat fork, with stuff like that I'm all butterfingers, & even though he's never been to Italy except once to shoot a gun when the world was a great big jumble, he remembers all…
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2048 1 1
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WIFE (calling back from kitchen): "Dick Cheney's penis!"
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2048 35 15
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No jobs except drinking...
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