2050 21 12
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...you pile into your Mercury and barrel down the street, the air smells like sea, the night goes forever...
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2050147
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I cannot make love to a woman who looks like David Byrne.
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204981
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She is thinking about her baby, the one she loved for exactly one month before she lost her forever. Now, all the love for her baby is coiled in the pit of her stomach and it has fangs and venom, and it is leaking into her blood, her bones.
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204821
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The barista with the fake rainbow nails and amazing cleft. . . .
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204832
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But Jana insisted to see this miracle, this antidote for the mundanity of existence.
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204844
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Gas station mart generic whiskey that smells sketchier than bathtub moonshine. Don’t worry about liver damage or going blind because you won’t be drinking it. You’ll need every drop to disinfect cuts and wounds since you and thousands of others in your co
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204853
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You’ve gathered in church to wait for Jesus. Unarguable signs have let you know this is the day. This is the day of the second coming. This is Judgment Day.
It was a no-brainer to wait at the church.
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204832
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Six months ago, Gary hired a goateed designer to "defoliate" the office, trucking out all the ficus trees and spanish moss to make room for curved sheets of fiberglass and, as he called it, "negative space." Now, her voice echoes off the concrete floors.
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20481816
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204811
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WIFE (calling back from kitchen): "Dick Cheney's penis!"
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2047107
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The birds were stacked up in the branches of a pine tree behind the feeder. Several were sitting on the fence. “They’re massing,” she said.
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2047198
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It lies in rusting riot
of shadowed days.
Flying high its emblem wings,
forever stalled.
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204766
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"Absolutely. I get better at it all the time." he confidently replies. He reminds me that it was all her idea. They were online friends when she suggested it. "She loves it." he tells me again, but I think of her sad eyes as she walked upstairs to tend to
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20461813
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A woman with spirit appeals to men who fish because she is still alive.
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204644
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“I spent the best years of my life raising you, and now that you've grown, I never hear from you.” Sound familiar? That's the “Mom's Lament.” Mothers have been kvetching at their grown-up kids like this since the beginning of…
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2046157
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A retired feminist literary agent named Jackie and her boyfriend, Jock, were on board. Jock was kind as one might expect of a man traveling with a feminist, and Jackie was happy yet stern. She mentored me one day over lunch.
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2046138
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Heaven’s a blast! It’s like a big summer camp in space...We are the weavers of the tie-dyed sky.
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204672
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Dogs will hump anything. Cats do not hump.
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204600
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His hands were like that when he was born. No one really understood why. Neither of his parents had any body parts made of oats. Neither of them had even eaten any oats the morning the conception took place. But sure enough, when Edwin MacGrain was born o
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204600
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August 14
I remember the smell of fresh air. The feeling of clean air in your lungs. I haven't had that feeling in quite some time now. I guess few people have.
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20461312
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She learned the difference between listening and hearing, between looking and seeing.
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204572
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Sally was bathing Homeless Hope in her bathtub when the phone rang in the kitchen.
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204400
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Alysia lifted her head and felt Reya wipe her tears away. She looked at her friends and smiled a little. Happy that she was not alone.
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20442514
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Mama's good at finding things, but hardly ever what she's looking for.
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204421
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He had no idea about the first three cards - what he would call the flop - which looked dubious and full of danger.
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204421
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The tapping of hard soles moves slowly but forcefully away from the front door and toward the kitchen. Johnny looks at his dinosaur as if its spiked tail and plates of armor will protect him. Clip clop. Clip clop. The footsteps circle the kitchen. The bac
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20441712
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The Gothic-filigreed gate creaks as a guard closes it behind the little girl in the ruffled dress. Standing there in the morning fog, on the sidewalk outside the reform school, she looks remarkably like Shirley Temple. Dimpled, chubby face. Pretty, party dress. Her…
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20432416
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The planet will be fine without us as it was/
when the Permian extinction made the goo/
that made the Rockefellers wealthy.
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2042177
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Since the divorce had gone final, the matter settled once and for all, he’d taken to a masochistic bingo of sorts.
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204233
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Describe how like or unlike a vagina a peach pit is, using no anatomical words.
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