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Night fell and the photographer slept, one hand between Prue's legs.
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They got out wearing their crisp brown Army jackets and khaki pants; she saw the cross on the lapel of the officer's shirt and just knew. These men brought sad news from faraway places.
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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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217063
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For some, a vertical pattern will evoke prison bars, for others, product bar codes.
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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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pluck me from the charred grate
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216988
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I know now, how she moves without verbs
after you crushed her into the river.
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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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Years After she can go home.
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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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21671611
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He runs a mail-order business from a storefront and distributes a catalog of disappeared things.
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216797
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500 miles
all the way from Omaha
nine hours
on the back of a flatbed truck
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216732
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...and 55 words to tell you about it.
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216763
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Two-way conversation with God.
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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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A lowing cow cracked open the darkened room like the yawn of a gravid alien.
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“I heard your dad took out the Dairy Queen drive-thru,” said Pat.
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'Yer a cool, cool glass of water baby....'
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216563
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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.
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216411
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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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Oryn woke up in her desk. Sweat trickled from her forehead. Staring at her notepad, with her latest calculation, she forgot to go home. Her thoughts of Alysia calmed for now, but still lingered from her dreams.
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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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Azure became silent. She never thought of her death before, nor thought about actually fighting creatures and saving people’s lives.
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