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For some, a vertical pattern will evoke prison bars, for others, product bar codes.
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217161
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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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217074
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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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2170104
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Ma tells me not to put a tampon between my legs. For fear of cotton fornication.
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217088
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I know now, how she moves without verbs
after you crushed her into the river.
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21702011
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...he thought often of the rollicking waves, of being pulled under, of being weightless and senseless...
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217086
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Years After she can go home.
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21691013
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pluck me from the charred grate
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2169199
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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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21681611
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He runs a mail-order business from a storefront and distributes a catalog of disappeared things.
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216897
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500 miles
all the way from Omaha
nine hours
on the back of a flatbed truck
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21682016
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Just bring me his head, that cerebral kiln of hot, ruddy verbiage and cadence.
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216863
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Doc and I talked for several hours. When I told him Mona was pregnant, he turned his head and looked at me. “Who's the father?” he asked. Don't know, I said. Mona didn't know, either.
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2168148
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I like the smoke going in
but I like it even more
when it's coming out
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216863
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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.
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216710
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It's dawn. It's quiet on the pond in the Public Garden. The light is calm, the pollution is mild, and everything is still,except for the occasional cruising taxi. It's the beginning of spring-- tulips out, leaves…
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216765
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We didn't wear shoes in the summer, except for Sunday school and church. The soles of our feet were black and tough as shoe leather.
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216732
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...and 55 words to tell you about it.
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He stays a couple of yards behind me as we slog uphill. I try to diffuse the tension with a coy toss of head, slip on wet leaves. My ankle rolls and I splat noisily down. From my new angle his beard looks less stylish—bristles straggle all up his neck. He maintains…
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216755
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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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216633
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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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216600
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Azure walked through the fog as though she were walking to class. Her hands swayed through the mist and felt the thickness of the cloud through her fingers
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216601
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“I heard your dad took out the Dairy Queen drive-thru,” said Pat.
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216632
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'Yer a cool, cool glass of water baby....'
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2166128
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Two-way conversation with God.
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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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216511
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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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216572
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A lowing cow cracked open the darkened room like the yawn of a gravid alien.
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216400
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A human cop and a cyborg detective team up to solve a case. A sci-fi-pulp-noir-detective story.
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216400
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At night, on these New England roads, there is no light, no pink sodium-vapor glow, no guideposts.
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