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And here you are. Before your time. Behind the glass.
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206253
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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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20621510
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...skinny love, skinned and thinned weak broth love...
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20611512
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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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20611612
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In all my marriage stories, I am both victim and hero.
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20612422
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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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206144
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“I changed religions for that baby.”
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206012
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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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206096
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Six kinds of crazy, he said. That told me everything. It told me enough.
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20594314
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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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205900
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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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205941
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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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205995
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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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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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205874
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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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205797
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Should have washed our hands, we thought after, licking sugar-spit and dirt.
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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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20562514
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And you know that notion just goes to show...
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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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2055139
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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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205500
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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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205563
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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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205531
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She threw the wine glass on the floor.
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205453
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For the woman with no arms, life is a constant dexterity demonstration
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205410
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I sighed and looked deep into his eyes. “There is nothing more powerful than denial.”
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205452
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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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20531813
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"You know, there really is a death of the heart."
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20533515
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No jobs except drinking...
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205200
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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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205261
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The imitator’s segue to his sad life story was, “But what isn’t funny…”
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