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He kind of enjoyed living by himself. It was nice and peaceful.
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Night fell and the photographer slept, one hand between Prue's legs.
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Borges must be so proud somewhere
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She was a beautiful woman. I don't argue with that. I welcome it.
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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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I talk wands and magic and how women aren't supposed to care,
but I do, and she talks length and girth.
Her fiancé has neither,
she makes an illustration with her pinky
and says that if they don't marry within the year,
she's dumping his ass
and we
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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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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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Years After she can go home.
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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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I found my black dot nucleus. School got me in the 10th year with the numbers spilling outta my head, but now I got the cell on my mind. Everybody's floating around this joint all pink and green college clean, yellow face Japanese, or the jet-headed Greeks with their…
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I remember the tan guinea pig, dead of dehydration. Through the wire bars of her cage I viewed her body. She lay stiff on her side, stretched out, as if in her guinea-pig dream she had been running through grassland, open and close to the sky.
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• Don’t confuse the virtues of bananas with the virtues of banana bread
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her heart just nodded knowingly
....yes, dear
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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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...and 55 words to tell you about it.
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Why is the ghost of John Lennon haunting a house in rural Oregon?
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I need a different storage solution
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as long as you have some snacks up there
I can be brave
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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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On the table the image is by Chardin but the puzzle is by someone else and that is what he has dumped out of the box.
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I had felt suddenly lighter and next thing I knew I was watching Leonard Tucker and Sister William from somewhere near the ceiling. I saw myself, too, at my desk, holding my songbook out in front of me like everyone else.
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A lowing cow cracked open the darkened room like the yawn of a gravid alien.
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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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"Geez," I thought, "not only is this daredevil felon fellow my EXACT height and build — his co-conspiring gal-pal must be, too!" I exhaled what felt like a gallon’s worth of air though my nose. "This is just getting too fucking weird ..."
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She began guiding Penny’s arms, whispering movements through her body. Memory and experience sang through every fiber of their being. The song had become her life.
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The everlasting shone through when skirting the tenuous threshold of the two worlds.
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“They picked me up in their spaceship about noon,” Austin Grantham says to me while pulling up an apple crate to use as a stool.
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over tea & saltineshe read melike an obituary
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