1936 4 1
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Approaching the kitchen from the foyer the reverb lessened until heel and floor where flint on flint. No spark was made.
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193655
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193600
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SO ABOUT TEN minutes later Heidi arrived at the house with her boyfriend in tow, looking as if she had stepped out of an MTV music video, her black leather jacket loaded with sequins and silver studs, her blonde hair now colored green, all frizzy and unke
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193662
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You longed to rip off her butterfly wings and watch her scream in agony. You ached to carve the steel from her eyes.
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19361313
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Go ahead, boy, pout like a fool.
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193693
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193673
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“There are no inhibitions in here,” the postman shouted, gesturing at the dance floor with his Marlboro Light, the glowing tip aimed at a woman in a taut skirt. Leaning far forward, her hands nearly touching the plywood floor, she planted her feet and beg
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193574
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She began guiding Penny’s arms, whispering movements through her body. Memory and experience sang through every fiber of their being. The song had become her life.
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19351611
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He runs a mail-order business from a storefront and distributes a catalog of disappeared things.
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193522
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one numberless character, an army of rants marching one by one, sand by sand, we move mountains this way…
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193563
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Cap'n Pepper tries and tries but Old Salty is never happy.
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193554
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You can’t take a chandelier on an emergency dash across a nuclear desert.
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193520
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I am alive, and I am hungry. Angry, I want more. I am not content with what you're offering me. Forty hours a week, two weeks vacation. A mortgage and car payments. Wife and kids, a dog in the suburbs. It's all incredibly unexciting, unsatisfying.
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193575
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When I was fifteen and we were moving to Mississippi, my boyfriend in Canada told me I was going to live in the swamp with the alligators. I didn’t understand why my father would pick such a hick place. Rob gave me his cricket bat to hang over my bed, a
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1935189
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In my innocence and young mind, I thought that kiss would mean that someday we would get married
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193533
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I also understand if you don't think that's fair. But consider this: If she doesn't operate according to those rules, then where are we? Isn't that anarchy?
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193501
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“Charlie was right about you, Nan,” she said in a voice of pure defeat. “You are a gentle spirit. And probably too good for people like us.”
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193555
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Your voice is yearning,
Like a sad song on the radio,
A yarn spun to make hearts break.
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193410
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For Hector it was animals. Rats, dogs, fish, and quite often horses – sometimes even lions. But for Achilles, it was always dead bodies.
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193400
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Casting nets like Jesus to a metaphor sea
Admittedly as weak as me
But I need the hike,
Like we still like Ike
To tell us about the Military Industrial Complex
Though he never told us what came next
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193462
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No, she hated the vain, overweight, pathetic, glass-of-merlot-a-day, SUV piloting, Carmen-cell-phone-ring-toned, housewives and consumer sluts that charged through the store like starving hyenas through the fallen, decaying, putrid, corpses of a plague-ri
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193400
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The morbidity of red ink is almost entirely lost on the playfulness of Snoopy stationary. But I boldly pressed on with my darkest thoughts to strengthen the effort of my offbeat creative exercise.
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193431
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You never knew How to express What you didn't know You felt With your words You picked on You taunted You destroyed Did it help To feel yourself Did it work To disparage Those who were Innocent and young Blameless For living …
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193434
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Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.
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1934116
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You haven't lived until she dances just for you ..
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1933134
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--How's the wriiting business? How about that thing you' was workin' on..."Gawain's Green Nights?"
--Yeah, well, I'm kind of off the soft-core...
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1933105
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I scare my daughter when she sleeps because she thinks I'm going to kill her.
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193342
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Here’s the story as compiled from the scantest of clues: The writing on the back of a stall door in the restroom of a twenty-four hour restaurant under the Gowanus Expressway.
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193395
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Last night in the shower, I felt only vaguely aware that something in me had changed.
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19331615
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• Don’t confuse the virtues of bananas with the virtues of banana bread
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