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It seems the people of this house were a happy family – The smiling faces, the children’s enthusiasm tells me as much. I wonder what happened to them.
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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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2130108
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"good luck, and be assured acceptance for representation or publication is based on different criteria at different agencies and we are sure you will yet find someone mentally deficient enough to give your book a shot."
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213044
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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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21302320
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There's always a sound, something triggering the fear.
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213054
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You can’t take a chandelier on an emergency dash across a nuclear desert.
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213022
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Why is the ghost of John Lennon haunting a house in rural Oregon?
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213010
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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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2130114
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I sink until water saturates my lashes, waiting, breathless, for the words to stop.
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213082
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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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212931
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I have never met Joe’s brother, of course.
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2129123
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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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212985
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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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21291210
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The coffins pile up gnawing dust on the glass panes to the rims of my binoculars. Shadowy cracks of stifling proportions, gliding over my eyes a requiem of mahogany. At dawn they heave between the workers’ hands, leave their resting places for a green tra
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212901
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“I heard your dad took out the Dairy Queen drive-thru,” said Pat.
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21291613
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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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2129128
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Two-way conversation with God.
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21292011
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...he thought often of the rollicking waves, of being pulled under, of being weightless and senseless...
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21281617
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what smells like love may not be love at all
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21282410
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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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212800
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Alysia stopped for a moment. She knew what she was going to say, but held back her words and thoughts. Chisame took advantage of her hesitance.
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212885
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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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212841
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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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212842
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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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212733
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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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21271611
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He runs a mail-order business from a storefront and distributes a catalog of disappeared things.
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212752
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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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21271911
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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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212761
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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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Only strong personalities can endure such size, the weak ones are extinguished by it.
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