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"I expect 50% of the agreed fee. In cash.” I dropped the envelope at the designated spot and parked up the street.
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The everlasting shone through when skirting the tenuous threshold of the two worlds.
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My mother’s old china no longer reflects. It’s value is now estimated as drywall.
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So this is what hate feels like. I glare at her, across the room standing there with him. Tall, blond, slender, perfect complexion, adorable smile, and bright eyes; and him and his lean athletic build, soft square jawline, charming smile, deep blue gree
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The Sentinels flew low and through the woods. Carefully navigating their way around the trees, they heard the sound of birds chirping and frogs croaking in the morning.
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Every morning, the children dig holes for their parents. This is both necessary and beneficial: the kids need to dig and the parents have to be buried.
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Whole frogs are/
too difficult.
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The Ocean used to be ours. When the stars were still fire and they were the only light burning though the dim, hazy nights, the ocean was ours. Before the smog, and the lights that were carried by the men who rose from the sea, the ocean was ours. We…
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Go ahead, boy, pout like a fool.
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There can be no convergence./
There is only the talking that talks about/
an angle of sight nothing else can share.
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I made my way quietly out back and sat in Helga’s whitewashed porch swing, listening to the first faint sounds of big band music drift out of Helga’s open windows and into the cooling summer air. The darkness was moving in slow from the east, interrup
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It could as well be late night infomercials/
saturating the screen//
with medieval looking exercise machines
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In my own case, before Ellen, of course there was someone else. She—well, she was someone who I felt as if I’d always known and always would. And I think she felt the same about me.
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"She has a lot of time to think these days. What else is a woman to do with the rest of her life?"
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Azure spent these years learning how to harness the four elements and find the four creatures that shackled her.
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There's always a sound, something triggering the fear.
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Before I was 18 years old, in my small home town of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada, I invented the designer jean...
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I kiss his sunburned nose, so nice under the beach house. We hear the shower of palm leaves like wings getting ready. We talk about a time we'll no longer know each other, when he'll be sad in a bar in another state, slipping and sliding and petting lost dogs in the parking…
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No one knows that, while the ex-Area 51 guy delivered his rant, Art Bell left the booth for a Diet Coke.
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I see those shoes and the status they confer, and I know what they cost.
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It's Halloween again, the season when my mother died.
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a mid-life crisis in 55 words
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Twelve people in the band,
the two women arrive first
(arrive on time).
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I don't think dogs like to die with the pack.
The smell of them rotting brings trouble in the wild,
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They kiss, opening their mouths into a smile, sharing a secret. Their kiss is so intimate. I blush, and look away embarrassed and a little aroused.
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Sal, a finder of misplaced objects notices the sunglasses, flip flops and boxers left on the pathway heading to the beach. They are his gifts today, so gallant is he of these ‘strays’ seeking ownership. He tries the glasses on first and feels dizzy.
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On top of the refrigerator is a small wooden box
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as long as you have some snacks up there
I can be brave
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