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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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Years After she can go home.
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Why is the ghost of John Lennon haunting a house in rural Oregon?
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The two were huddled in a corner of an alley, joined by some others that I’m sure wandered into the darkness when they realized they were far from alone. That alley was the one off Market Street. I used to steal candy from the corner shop when I was nin
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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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Night fell and the photographer slept, one hand between Prue's legs.
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• Don’t confuse the virtues of bananas with the virtues of banana bread
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Borges must be so proud somewhere
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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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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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He kind of enjoyed living by himself. It was nice and peaceful.
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I need a different storage solution
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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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She was a beautiful woman. I don't argue with that. I welcome it.
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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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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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...and 55 words to tell you about it.
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her heart just nodded knowingly
....yes, dear
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as long as you have some snacks up there
I can be brave
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Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.
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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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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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The everlasting shone through when skirting the tenuous threshold of the two worlds.
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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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“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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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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Somewhere along tomorrow, I will forget I have the right to do this.
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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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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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