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on this scenic route you will likely encounter a handful of bicycle spoke lobster traps.
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The image was startlingly unfamiliar. Looking at it, no one would guess it had been their last attempt, their last failure. No one would believe that they had never really been that way, or that the life they shared was built on mind games, manipulation a
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People go through life all the time with only one kidney, or with some of their female-parts removed.
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For me German was a school subject. For Hymen, who could pronounce German but not speak it, it was a poetic technique or element, shorthand for what ails the world.
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We lingered there in that room for a few moments, stuck in the awkward goo of rejection and regret. At some point, I’m not sure when, I left, found a bathroom down the hall and washed my ear.
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She stared unbreakingly, confident, knowing; and talked so close to my face I felt cornered. But her voice was something, low and smooth.
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He introduced me to key lime pie, and for this alone I would have loved him forever. It was an innocent time for me, and I was easy to please.
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She remembered the feeling of weightlessness, of being lifted against gravity, the soft whoosh of tulle...
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Two friends follow the train tracks by their neighborhood.
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There is a tall and leafy tree in our backyard. Also a bride, a groom, and a chicken.
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The apartment was a second-level place, so I went down the steps and looked through the stained glass window of the door. “Ah hell,” I said to myself. Raymond Carver and John Fante and Charles Bukowski were outside. I opened the door.
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The crumbling meccas/
gnaw/
Each fiscal year’s quota of blood and bone,
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Ai picked up the ball and noticed the feathers. Wings unfurled and the head looked up. Staring deep into the bird’s eyes, Ai could have sworn she saw flames.
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I used to sneak away to my bedroom to write. I would get away any chance I could to jot down on paper my stories, my ideas, the rich stream of goodness that sprang from my little baby creative brain. It was pure joy.
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In late summer 2000 Dick Cheney held a secret strategy meeting in a hunting lodge deep in the hills of southeastern Wyoming. It was Cheney's own place, bought with the money he'd ripped from the trough with both hands through decades of what…
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I was having festive sex flashbacks and wasn't thinking sharply.
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“Choices overwhelmed us,” Thomas continued, years later, “like waves crashing.”
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I like the smoke going in
but I like it even more
when it's coming out
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It's a lie, it doesnt mean anything this, only that my lips are ripe and soft.
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I murdered my inner child/
at 7 and neither denied/
nor confessed the act until now.
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Dad woke us up and said it was time to go.
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On the bus I sat like an ounce.
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"I sighed heavily. 'Goddamn it...' I spat under my breath. 'Every motherfucking time..."
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On Day 1122 at 4:14 AM the door which has remained since installation firmly glued to the masonry behind opens and a man emerges blinking shielding his eyes against fine stinging snow.
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Over fifty plastic flamingos stood silently at attention... as if eating sea urchins out of our lawn.
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When Kim handed me some of her husband’s condoms—“Here, use these”—out of one of their bedroom dresser drawers, could she sense the astonishment I was trying my best not to show?
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We die in order to get some rest
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Everyday the buildings seem to be getting taller and taller.
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