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Six kinds of crazy, he said. That told me everything. It told me enough.
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2066108
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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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20651310
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And here you are. Before your time. Behind the glass.
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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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20642422
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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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206300
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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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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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206395
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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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206212
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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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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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20614314
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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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2061139
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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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206110
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I sighed and looked deep into his eyes. “There is nothing more powerful than denial.”
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20612514
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And you know that notion just goes to show...
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20611612
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In all my marriage stories, I am both victim and hero.
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206144
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“I changed religions for that baby.”
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206097
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Should have washed our hands, we thought after, licking sugar-spit and dirt.
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206000
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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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20603515
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No jobs except drinking...
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206074
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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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20601511
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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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2058198
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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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205831
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She threw the wine glass on the floor.
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20571813
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"You know, there really is a death of the heart."
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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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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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205653
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For the woman with no arms, life is a constant dexterity demonstration
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205631
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The crackling inferno sweeps across the ground
Devouring all in its scorching path
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205686
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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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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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