2066 9 6
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Six kinds of crazy, he said. That told me everything. It told me enough.
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2065 0 0
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Mayumi and Emi stood quiet. Neither knew who would speak first, or if they even wanted to speak at all. They faced a strange aura now. A growing distance between them building up.
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2065 13 10
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And here you are. Before your time. Behind the glass.
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2064 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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2063 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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2063 21 7
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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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2062 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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2062 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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2061 25 14
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And you know that notion just goes to show...
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2061 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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2061 16 12
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In all my marriage stories, I am both victim and hero.
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2061 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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2061 4 4
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“I changed religions for that baby.”
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2060 7 4
|
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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2060 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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2060 43 14
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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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2059 9 7
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Should have washed our hands, we thought after, licking sugar-spit and dirt.
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2058 3 1
|
She threw the wine glass on the floor.
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2058 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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2057 18 13
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"You know, there really is a death of the heart."
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2057 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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2057 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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2057 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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2057 6 3
|
“Life cannot continue at a breakneck pace, because it is breaking too many necks,” the Health Czar told the President.
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2056 8 6
|
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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2056 0 0
|
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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2056 35 15
|
No jobs except drinking...
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2055 5 3
|
For the woman with no arms, life is a constant dexterity demonstration
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2055 7 3
|
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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2055 5 2
|
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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