2113 13 10
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I need a different storage solution
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2113 1 0
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Danica saw her hand with the ring lifted up by Oryn. Both of their eyes locked onto the red gem and Danica understood what Oryn offered.
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2113 9 6
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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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2113 8 6
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Years After she can go home.
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2112 29 12
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Night fell and the photographer slept, one hand between Prue's legs.
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2112 5 8
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Mama hung them everywhere. It started with just a few, in our apartment and outside on the brick. She made walls into windows.
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2112 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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2112 0 0
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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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2112 3 3
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Marie shrugs. “Maybe she’s just late. Come on, let's wait by the jungle gym.” She runs over and starts climbing. The jungle gym is closest to the path that goes into the woods and down into the canyon. She has to get him into the woods somehow.
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2111 27 12
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Borges must be so proud somewhere
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2111 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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2111 6 6
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I hope you'll have the time to read this before your attention wanders.
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2111 13 10
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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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2110 24 16
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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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2110 19 15
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as long as you have some snacks up there
I can be brave
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2110 19 9
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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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2109 30 13
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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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2109 7 4
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2109 9 5
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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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2109 8 5
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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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2109 5 3
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A strange and unexpected shift has occurred.
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2109 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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2109 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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2108 0 1
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The everlasting shone through when skirting the tenuous threshold of the two worlds.
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2108 1 1
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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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2108 20 15
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over tea & saltineshe read melike an obituary
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2108 10 4
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"I sighed heavily. 'Goddamn it...' I spat under my breath. 'Every motherfucking time..."
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2108 3 4
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Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.
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2107 5 4
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Often we sit in silence and age. We are observers of dust, fashioning ourselves into antiques.
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