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I scare my daughter when she sleeps because she thinks I'm going to kill her.
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2187122
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...a blunt thrust of a face, uncongenial in profile, and the ubiquitous green cap that says John Deere, with the yellow ideogram of a deer for graduates of our local schools.
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218788
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You just watch, the schoolteachers’ll be next and then you’ll see shit go down. Imagine what happens when a fifth-grader sees his teacher getting frog-marched through a crowd on YouTube.
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218722
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That's when we struggle, got it? Right there on the floor. It's not the brawl of the century, and I'm not the pilot who delivers the Enola Gay.
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21872713
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This is not a story you expect to end at Cape Horn.
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218711
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My wife and I were sitting at the bar at Brennan’s down on 4th Street one night, drinking too much without eating. Geary had convinced us to come down there with him, for two reasons. One, to give us the lowdown on where to stay and what to do in New Yo
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218722
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Sloe Gin Fizz is pink
Bombay Gin comes in blue
I’m sitting here at Emerald’s
And all I can think of is –
you.
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218734
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Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.
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218711
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I rummage around to see which of our many countertop appliances might do the trick. Yogurt maker? No, I need something with more muscle.
The Cuisinart--just the thing! I pick through the detachable blades—where’s the isotope shredder?
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218786
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no one else comes in my back door but you
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21871712
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Conceptio culpa
Nasci pena
Labor vita
Necesse mori
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218673
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My favorite was a red bowler, a man's hat, which I never dared wear outside my tiny bedroom. My three brothers wanted it too much to take that kind of a risk. They'd poke me with various sharp objects: the serrated edge of the bread knife, the rusted TV
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2186104
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"I sighed heavily. 'Goddamn it...' I spat under my breath. 'Every motherfucking time..."
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21862712
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Borges must be so proud somewhere
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218684
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... we both know how we go to fresh air like fish, gasping.
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21861616
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There's a mirror in front of me and I thought it was so I could see myself, but I didn't want to see me.
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218641
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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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21861614
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The psychiatrist was a man who clearly meant to calm his patients, the students. You could tell by his sweater and his neatly combed, plumy hair and the wire-rim glasses he wore. But he was not good at his job. You could tell this by how bad he was at cal
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218542
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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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218558
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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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218541
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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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218500
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Alysia slowed down for a moment. She clutched her head again. She looked up and found herself at a playground. There was a familiarity in the air.
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21851310
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I need a different storage solution
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218585
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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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218432
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...and 55 words to tell you about it.
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218485
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I ask for your patience with this form message, as it is part of a system that ensures
every submissive ex lover is considered separately, since I am involved in a lot of anonymous sex.
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21841313
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Talking about a Friend Over a Cup or Two of Coffee “Their first fight was over school lunches. Free school lunches. She taught Kindergarten in a public special ed center for emotionally disturbed children. The…
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" Not a day goes by/ that isn't stabbed with common sorrow"--Maurice Manning Crazy's alright by me if it's a harmless plea for some little sanity, or unavoidable by birth but it just won't do for tricks. Like say I go over there right…
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218354
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You can’t take a chandelier on an emergency dash across a nuclear desert.
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It was only when blood began to drip onto the page that he realized he'd been hit.
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