2097 6 2
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her heart just nodded knowingly
....yes, dear
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2096 8 0
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The trainers looked at her and smiled and they were still one creature with four legs and two heads. The old man’s left eye moved in sync with the younger one’s right eye.
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The mandatory is not / your friend
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2096 8 6
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Years After she can go home.
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2095 10 5
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I scare my daughter when she sleeps because she thinks I'm going to kill her.
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2095 19 15
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as long as you have some snacks up there
I can be brave
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...and 55 words to tell you about it.
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When they called him down there to the morgue to identify the body, he drove behind the wheel of his truck like some steady maniac on a long haul. The Ford 150 cried out for new shocks, but that hardly mattered. Mud plastered side panels and…
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2095 2 2
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Why is the ghost of John Lennon haunting a house in rural Oregon?
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2095 14 7
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You were given blame for action as experience by cause and effect now. If you take apart blame and even forgiveness is too rigid. She thinks of that purpose as to give men sexual destiny.
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He heard her crying out behind the curtain that had been drawn around the bed. Each cry was more strained than the last. She complained about the burning, called the nurses "putane" and threatened to rip out the device they'd inserted into her. He sat t
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2095 8 6
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His middle name was Perceval. He judged the first Miss America contest in 1922. He saw himself primarily as a storyteller in the Dickensian mode.He claimed to be an illustrator rather than an artist. He disliked driving but loved to walk, and preferred…
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2094 6 2
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Erwin came into the kitchen through the back door and went straight to the sink to clean up. Black mud and dried blood crusted his fingertips and caked the callused whorls of his knuckles. He used the round of strong-smelling soap he kept for…
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2094 5 3
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Maybe God couldn’t find His bifocals, and that’s why my check for ten million hasn’t shown up yet. Maybe a stray dog in heaven ate my check. Maybe God went bankrupt like everyone else. Okay, so maybe at the end of life I’ll balance my checkbook.
I do
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2094 8 2
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My dad drove a Model A Roadster
and had a photo taken of him on a hunting trip up in Wisconsin
with one leather boot up on the running board
and a .22 caliber pistol in his hand
like Ernest Hemingway and Clark Gable rolled into one
My dad ro
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I need a different storage solution
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2094 0 0
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Momo told me not to mind her, but I did. At night, after he'd tucked me in, I could hear him on the phone in the living room, talking for a long time. Early this morning he woke me up and gave me my backpack. ‘Put some clothes in here', he said. ‘We're going on a trip.'
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2093 20 15
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over tea & saltineshe read melike an obituary
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2093 8 8
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I know now, how she moves without verbs
after you crushed her into the river.
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2092 0 1
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Jimmy Gollihue awoke to the howling of a bloodhound, a long voice from up the mountain, and the baying of the dog pulled a keening lament from his dream of the highway.
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2092 7 2
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A lowing cow cracked open the darkened room like the yawn of a gravid alien.
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2092 3 4
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Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.
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2092 16 16
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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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2092 16 4
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Somewhere along tomorrow, I will forget I have the right to do this.
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2092 5 0
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once wedding cake
under pillows.
now fluffy frosting
on squashed defeat
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2091 8 8
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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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2091 25 14
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Did we get Jihadi John?/
And the highway to Mosul?//
What’s the score?
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2091 12 8
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She was a beautiful woman. I don't argue with that. I welcome it.
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2091 12 7
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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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2091 19 9
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I screwed my courage to the sticking point and asked him if he had shot down any Japanese airplanes. He grinned at me. “One,” he said.
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