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“There’s cheap land at Cudlee Creek perfect for breeding long-haired rabbits,” he added. “They can’t jump high so fencing costs are low.”
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Everyday the buildings seem to be getting taller and taller.
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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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"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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To my right, blank stares interchange with closed eyelids on an unkempt face. The minutes drip into the endless sea of night outside the window, each time creating a deeper blackness.
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no one likes a bitchy cowboyhike up yer britchespull yer brim down'nshut up and ridestop making petsout of peevesand idolsout of gossipinsteadmake a hobbyout of yer horseand fer godsakesseason that saddle
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When you finally got blood from the hard stick
You spotted the backflash of red
And said Thank God. The woman’s legs and arms
Were everywhere, and you were in the middle
Holding her down with one hand while wielding
A butterfly in the other. You stuc
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Later that night, he lay his shivering children in his own bed, the bed that betrayed and abandoned him just a few years ago. It will protect them now.
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Only the occasional kindness of a stranger,//
The curve of his back, a slope rushing past me,//
Is luminous, the coin pressed in my hand . . .////
And yes, I beg.////
I open my palm//
As Jesus did.//
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I see those shoes and the status they confer, and I know what they cost.
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i stained his hockey sheets
right over the red wings
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Richard bounds up the stairs to his apartment. He can’t wait to get home to his new kitty. He found the poor cat right outside of his building just a few days ago, and already they’ve become fast friends.
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It’ll die in there and the stairwell’ll stink for weeks, Greg says in the car. We’re quiet, considering that.
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My mother’s old china no longer reflects. It’s value is now estimated as drywall.
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... we both know how we go to fresh air like fish, gasping.
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once wedding cake
under pillows.
now fluffy frosting
on squashed defeat
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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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Ai thought she was flying at first, but she felt herself leaning on something. Before she could figure out what was happening, her eyes closed again, and had a short dream.
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At night, on these New England roads, there is no light, no pink sodium-vapor glow, no guideposts.
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I watch my mother and my daughter, each wondering in her own quiet way about where this story will go next.
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Mama hung them everywhere. It started with just a few, in our apartment and outside on the brick. She made walls into windows.
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There's always a sound, something triggering the fear.
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but let's stop and take another look at things
could it be through our closed eyes
that we didn't really know what we were talking about
that there never was a surprise
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'Yer a cool, cool glass of water baby....'
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We passed a dead cat lying up against a guard rail, its fur stringing and wet and exposing its bloated skin which had a purple tint to it. Not my work, Death said, smoke trickling out of one eye socket.
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her heart just nodded knowingly
....yes, dear
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this one was abandoned... a splinter left under the skin, pushed out by protective flesh
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The voices he hears are God and the Devil and he knows the difference. Therefore, he is not mentally ill.
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