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There's always a sound, something triggering the fear.
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214954
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People tell me my personality is a drug. Could be. My shadow is a spine. And I have the current density of copper. A welcoming face. Opium eyes opium thumbs. The piccolo is parenthetical. …
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214900
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On the other side of the world the Moon spun on its way.
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214985
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I could love them all, your people, /
Learn their differences, speak their tongues, /
When there is no one there to hold you /
But me, my arms would be wide enough /
To hold armies of your need. Do not forget.
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214922
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There are worse things than getting your ass kicked by a 12 year old Puerto Rican kid. This was exactly my thinking as he stood over me, his pre-pubescent screams sounding like a baby Bruce Lee, preparing to finish me off.
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214830
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Their hearts had a place for the Elements. The Sentinels did not want to abandon them, their friends. Nor did they want to abandon each other.
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214863
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Danny said that you like him now. He smiled like it was the best news that he could give me, but his eyes dared me. …
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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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214764
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I put my arms around her and whisper to her while she plays the piano. She wiggles and tells me to stop it.
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214755
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214685
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As long as he could still take the stairs, he would go down there to be with the memories that each piece held. He knew that their time was about up, because his was too. His wife had already gone, and even before that she had long stopped using the washe
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2146169
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Sometimes you can't sleep.
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214662
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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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214641
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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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214642
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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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I sink until water saturates my lashes, waiting, breathless, for the words to stop.
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2146189
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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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21452410
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One sunny morning, a big-bellied ball of yellow fur surveyed a yard full of prospective adopters and ran straight to one.
She’d been chosen.
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214554
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You can’t take a chandelier on an emergency dash across a nuclear desert.
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214586
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Len and I sit on Harpo's porch, drink beer and gab. It's hot, even for July. Len and I joke and laugh, and Harpo stares off into the middle distance.
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214573
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Already, I can see that, whenever Harold moves, some of his soul escapes, like an accidental exhalation, like breath on powder.
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214586
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no one else comes in my back door but you
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214401
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The everlasting shone through when skirting the tenuous threshold of the two worlds.
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214400
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They got out wearing their crisp brown Army jackets and khaki pants; she saw the cross on the lapel of the officer's shirt and just knew. These men brought sad news from faraway places.
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21441911
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No snippet to see, here. The piece is so short a snippet would be the whole thing.
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214444
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Eventually, all the windows on the street went dark, each small house cloaking its occupants in a world unto itself, soundproofed and emotionally remote.
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2144104
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Ma tells me not to put a tampon between my legs. For fear of cotton fornication.
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214411
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. . . hands before your face, heart without blood . . .
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The book has known many women’s hands, something erotic and frequently checked out from our local library. Its cover depicts a man and a woman, both with improbable if not impossible bodies. I believe the term is bodice-ripper.
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