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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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205321
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...I told Uncle Lou I thought it (trans-gendering) looked like a thoughtful way of occupying the world. It was a personal triumph, for some individuals, over the destructive affects of denial. Besides, it hurt no one, and it didn’t destroy property. I alw
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205300
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So this is what hate feels like. I glare at her, across the room standing there with him. Tall, blond, slender, perfect complexion, adorable smile, and bright eyes; and him and his lean athletic build, soft square jawline, charming smile, deep blue gree
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205311
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True love may last forever, but the most I've ever gotten out of a lab assistant is two years, five months, three weeks, twelve days, and fifteen hours. And he was the exception.
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2052105
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I scare my daughter when she sleeps because she thinks I'm going to kill her.
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205250
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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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205296
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Got me a 50 pound bat ray.
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20522912
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Night fell and the photographer slept, one hand between Prue's legs.
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205211
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A 1960’s of walking sugar beet fields to remove the rogue bolters by hand and on other days painting the ironwork of cattle sheds with red oxide. Then a 1970’s when the self-inking explosion of tattoos on his hands and then his body began.
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20521714
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When you move to the music of a woman
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205186
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in her monestary mission, with her rosary and candles, time holds me here
my feet got the travelin' blues but my hands tie old women's bones to my hair
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2051209
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My mother’s old china no longer reflects. It’s value is now estimated as drywall.
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205121
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A pale face was illuminated by the street light. A voice rasped, “Charlie?”
“Do I know you?”
“It's Bill.”
The side of his little brother's thin face
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205033
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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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205034
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Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.
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205054
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People tell me my personality is a drug. Could be. My shadow is a spine. And I have the current density of copper. A welcoming face. Opium eyes opium thumbs. The piccolo is parenthetical. …
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205020
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I made my way quietly out back and sat in Helga’s whitewashed porch swing, listening to the first faint sounds of big band music drift out of Helga’s open windows and into the cooling summer air. The darkness was moving in slow from the east, interrup
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205095
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so for penance, the priest gave me the full twelve Stations of the Cross
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205083
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When you last produced writing on a manual typewriter, was it before or after your first sexual experience, or maybe during? Manual or otherwise. Which do you recall with more enthusiasm...
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2049247
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I watched as the light fled
from your eyes,
No slowly dimming lamp,
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204988
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I know now, how she moves without verbs
after you crushed her into the river.
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204800
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Face it girls, you want to claw my eyes out, don’t you? Or whack me across my 36 DD’s with a golf club, am I right? Well don’t blame me if I’m young, gorgeous, full-breasted and obviously the cat’s meow.
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204899
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What if I said;
I never liked actually reading?
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204833
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Describe how like or unlike a vagina a peach pit is, using no anatomical words.
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204821
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“Hear that?” asks my wife Amy. Books in hand, we relax on our flagstone patio. A shaft of late-day sun borrows through the maples' leafy canopy and deposits a dazzling, sunlit pool on Amy's lap. …
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20482712
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Borges must be so proud somewhere
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20481616
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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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2048153
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He stopped the shower and recounted his life, now Kin-less and plain.
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204811
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WIFE (calling back from kitchen): "Dick Cheney's penis!"
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2047125
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The right is empty, waiting to receive the load like a catcher behind home plate.
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