2101 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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2101 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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2101 12 10
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Some believe the Scots were encouraged to emigrate, hired guns as it were, to Ireland to civilize that population.
If that's the case, we would see it as another evil English trick. In any case, we MacGowans are Scots Irish and Protestant.
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2100 7 4
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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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2100 8 6
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Years After she can go home.
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2099 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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2099 3 2
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...and 55 words to tell you about it.
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2099 27 12
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Borges must be so proud somewhere
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2099 13 10
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I need a different storage solution
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2099 6 2
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her heart just nodded knowingly
....yes, dear
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2098 1 1
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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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2098 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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2098 12 8
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She was a beautiful woman. I don't argue with that. I welcome it.
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2098 6 6
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I hope you'll have the time to read this before your attention wanders.
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2098 2 2
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Why is the ghost of John Lennon haunting a house in rural Oregon?
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2098 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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2097 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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2097 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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2097 19 15
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as long as you have some snacks up there
I can be brave
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2097 3 4
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Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.
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2097 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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2097 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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2097 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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2097 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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2096 9 11
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The understanding we made was neatly wrapped up in its own blue tissue cocoon like a neatly rolled joint and dumped unceremoniously into the forgotten past like a plate of leftover digitized lies. The lid was slammed shut. Time passes too tightly. And you …
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2096 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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2096 20 15
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over tea & saltineshe read melike an obituary
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2096 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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2096 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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2095 24 16
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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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