1921 11 7
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He was her summer fling, the first cock to crow when the sun rose over her tequila smile.
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192188
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The trouble began in October, when Ava, an embittered receptionist who worked at a small museum housed in a five-story Westside brownstone, discovered that the floors were littered with enormous grey feathers
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192050
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Please direct your attention to the flight attendants as they demonstrate the safety features of this aircraft.
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192042
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19202410
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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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192071
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In 1978, a computer program became privy to my grandmother's most secret thoughts.
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192073
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Forget Ulysses, life itself is a stream of consciousness if you ever have time to get out of the stream and take a look at it. And there’s nothing that gets you out of the stream like a short sharp shock.
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1920209
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My mother’s old china no longer reflects. It’s value is now estimated as drywall.
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19201714
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When you move to the music of a woman
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19201613
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I am a purveyor of leeches. All my
friends are purveyors of leeches.
We meet weekly to compare our wares.
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19191410
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They were carried out / over shoulders of running soldiers / naked bodies pass
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191933
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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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191999
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I'm not interested in her that way.
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191961
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At dinner in Marrakech, Namid danced on the table, waving a white napkin, propelled by jetlag and poor judgment.
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19191311
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She sits and waitsOn a chair that is hardWith a neck that hurtsAnd an eyeball that stings.She sitsSo stiffOn a chair that is hardWith a neck that hurtsAnd an eyeball that stings.She sitsAnd the hand on her lapHas a joint that cracksWith a neck that hurtsAnd an eyeball that…
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1919153
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He stopped the shower and recounted his life, now Kin-less and plain.
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19191614
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Snow sheeted on the river...
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191921
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Fleas were a constant reminder that humans are food.
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19181911
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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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1918165
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Her eyes stared wide with panic, her teeth chattered intermittently with impressive intensity, and with her ineffectual stabs at the air she completed the portrait of distracted mania.
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19182610
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I avert my gaze to the crab grass pushing through broken concrete, the spent condoms, the empty vodka nips rolling at her stockinged feet...
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1917125
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The right is empty, waiting to receive the load like a catcher behind home plate.
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191752
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On some evenings, when I would sneak out of my room, I'd sit on the verandah and count the streetlights. I'd count the stars in the sky and trace the moon with the tip of my finger and consider how anyone could make it through the night when there were so
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191730
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I was crouched under a bruise-purple sky on a field of battle. I held a World War I-era weapon, an ancient black-iron spear with a spring, and I was told to load balloons onto it without popping them, and then I was to fire the balloons at some unnamed ta
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191754
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I would be reduced to begging on the streets and hoping for a sign of her in soup lines.
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1917108
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hooves moon dark latch eyes rope / Bess the landlord's daughter, the landlord's blackeyed daughter / gun breasts dress shame shouts blood blood blood
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19171510
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chet baker shades my eyes
rippling through the cool water
sometimes we feed the fish
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191796
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He was the kind of man that I would rather have declawed than date, and then leave him on a gurney, helpless and anaesthetized. Cliff Eames had made me feel that way since we were teenagers. He would never be helpless. …
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1916123
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I read the ending to her and it was clear to her--clear as it could only be to a woman, to a woman you're in love with--that I had been describing her.
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191640
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When the talking's done, they get in their cars to go wherever they go, and just as soon as that last car clears the path, the yellow-cabbed trucks are back and the men get out.
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