4300 57 28
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It was like the time we broke icicles dripping from the low eaves and brandished them like swords...
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4297 8 4
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But although her culinary plans are running smoothly, my mother’s mood is lethal. Look closely and you can see thin plumes of smoke escaping from her mouth and the tips of two horns peeping between the rollers on top of her head. This is not uncommon for
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4274 29 9
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It was Christopher who got her thinking about the Jews again. He had left the same day they did, and so all were connected in her mind, as if together somehow. She read his letters half-wondering if he would mention them, wanting to know if the Jews were
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4273 16 30
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Cahill—Dr. Cahill to those who knew him in his small town in Maine—had decided that his screened porch should be relocated. Wouldn't it be better to winterize the current porch, adding a door at the far end which would lead to a new, smaller porch,…
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4271 1 1
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She would occasionally grant a surgical intern sexual congress.
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4269 24 15
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My life is life in shape alone./
The substance leaks away like blood/
removed by the embalmer’s art.
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4264 36 26
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All carcinoma/
would be hors d’oeuvres/
for its dark appetite.
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4256 19 13
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Somebody pushed the automatic fuck-you button today,
not the due-to-the-volume-of-submissions-we-receive button,
nor the it-does-not-fit-our-editorial-needs button;
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4253 41 40
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Touching one of these special stones will bring out your own unique song.
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4245 25 24
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I see his look, his impatient look.
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4245 35 31
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I am not against the darkness / I can learn to live with restraint
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4234 45 29
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He sat on a leather couch in the nude, blew smoke rings shaped like wild animals and picked verses out of the thick air.
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4231 0 0
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Henry noted the live hips rubbing against his and thought it cool. It was not often that parts of the female anatomy made contact with his own, still mutating, parts and so there was a brief thrill of the unknown spiking along his vertebrate, small explos
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4228 39 26
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"Oh, abracadabra," she muttered.
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4228 39 24
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I hit the pole near Whited Avenue a year to the day.
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4224 8 5
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For starters, someone must be dead. That’s the golden rule to remember here. And if that someone is mom, you’ve got a hit on your hands.
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4224 10 6
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My brother and I had often debated whether we could get our father to shave his moustache off, just to see if his sophistication remained intact without it.
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4223 5 1
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It was not until my twelfth birthday that I realised the face I saw in the mirror was not mine.
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4217 28 15
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When I was miranda and my mother Rose, ours was a skinless intimacy. miranda in Rose's womb, captured in an essence of love, anger, frustration, fear, the overwhelming stress of Rose's life heavy syrup that kept the bond between spirit and body weak and
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4217 16 9
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The first punch sent me flying into a Christmas tree. The second put me on the floor on my hands and knees, blood dripping from my nose.
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4213 20 11
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He was on his way home from school on a dank winter afternoon when the attack came from nowhere, launched like a missile across the Gaza Strip. Suddenly he lay on his back with Jonathan Love pounding him in the face.
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4212 7 3
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In my room is my младенец,
I mean my little one. She is hungry,
Sucking dry air. My молоко, that
Says milk, is not good. I can’t make.
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4208 8 7
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To find myself in a straight relationship which challenges my communications skills and tries my patience while improving my status among my peers and family.
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4207 16 10
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the slow stretches across the horizon
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4199 12 8
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you dug a hole inside my heart
and asked me if it hurt
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4199 0 0
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We will cut you up and feed you to the sharks.
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4198 22 15
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Dear End of the World. We're having a party. Stop by if you're in the neighborhood.
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4190 55 53
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You marched in step from 9 to 5, kept perfect pace, pledged allegiance to enforced mediocrity, until the day they let you go—the day you knew that you were never Buddy Holly on their plane; just another passenger, brilliant but doomed.
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4166 10 5
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I hold a key to feel its pull, and follow where it leads. Once, because the moment, key, and direction felt so right, I ended up on the streets naked. A police officer threatened me with handcuffs. I laughed, mesmerized by the cuff's clink, their never-ending circles,…
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4165 21 18
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On her lunch break, she dumps Luis for Daniel Towens, the ugliest man in the county.
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