2145 8 6
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Years After she can go home.
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21442712
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Borges must be so proud somewhere
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2144157
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the boredom inherent in living in the suburbs
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2144128
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Two-way conversation with God.
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214496
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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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214482
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Later that night, he lay his shivering children in his own bed, the bed that betrayed and abandoned him just a few years ago. It will protect them now.
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21433013
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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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214300
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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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21421013
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pluck me from the charred grate
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214231
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I have never met Joe’s brother, of course.
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214262
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It’ll die in there and the stairwell’ll stink for weeks, Greg says in the car. We’re quiet, considering that.
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21421710
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When I squint at her from across the table I can see the waveforms created by her carrier signal.
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2142127
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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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214288
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I know now, how she moves without verbs
after you crushed her into the river.
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214154
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Often we sit in silence and age. We are observers of dust, fashioning ourselves into antiques.
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214185
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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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214111
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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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214150
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once wedding cake
under pillows.
now fluffy frosting
on squashed defeat
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214058
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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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214073
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Everyone runs to the plane but me. I get the last seat (middle of 5), crush men’s bags on my way. I’m white & female. They glare.
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21392015
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over tea & saltineshe read melike an obituary
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213963
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For some, a vertical pattern will evoke prison bars, for others, product bar codes.
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213966
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I hope you'll have the time to read this before your attention wanders.
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213810
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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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2138128
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She was a beautiful woman. I don't argue with that. I welcome it.
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21381310
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I need a different storage solution
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2138199
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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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213811
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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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213795
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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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Richard bounds up the stairs to his apartment. He can’t wait to get home to his new kitty. He found the poor cat right outside of his building just a few days ago, and already they’ve become fast friends.
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