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...I grew up in a provincial town which at the time had no bookstore and no library — no library even at school...
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21182011
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...he thought often of the rollicking waves, of being pulled under, of being weightless and senseless...
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21172018
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211786
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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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211711
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. . . hands before your face, heart without blood . . .
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21171613
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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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211742
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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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2117189
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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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21161611
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He runs a mail-order business from a storefront and distributes a catalog of disappeared things.
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211699
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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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2115116
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Down South now means August cold snap,
the forties roaring my wool cap
off my head.
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211561
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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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211554
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You can’t take a chandelier on an emergency dash across a nuclear desert.
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211501
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“I heard your dad took out the Dairy Queen drive-thru,” said Pat.
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211431
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I have never met Joe’s brother, of course.
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211495
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so for penance, the priest gave me the full twelve Stations of the Cross
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211410
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I am wearing stolen socks. Not because I haven't any of my own, and not because they are an exact fit. Only because they soothe my emptiness inside.
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211473
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Everyone runs to the plane but me. I get the last seat (middle of 5), crush men’s bags on my way. I’m white & female. They glare.
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211411
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True love may last forever, but the most I've ever gotten out of a lab assistant is two years, five months, three weeks, twelve days, and fifteen hours. And he was the exception.
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211333
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salmon
maple syrup
horseradish
smoke detector
the list read, scrawled in purple marker on the refrigerator door.
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2113123
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....sees the beginning of a new day through the closed shutters, hears the guard washing up at the sink, feels the beginning of a cry in his throat.
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211362
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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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211355
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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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21121911
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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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21122410
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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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211263
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Doc and I talked for several hours. When I told him Mona was pregnant, he turned his head and looked at me. “Who's the father?” he asked. Don't know, I said. Mona didn't know, either.
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211221
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...I told Uncle Lou I thought it (trans-gendering) looked like a thoughtful way of occupying the world. It was a personal triumph, for some individuals, over the destructive affects of denial. Besides, it hurt no one, and it didn’t destroy property. I alw
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211152
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The storm grew in might until it spawned the worst kind of tornado, an F-5 or Finger of God.
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211100
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Oryn woke up in her desk. Sweat trickled from her forehead. Staring at her notepad, with her latest calculation, she forgot to go home. Her thoughts of Alysia calmed for now, but still lingered from her dreams.
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