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"kissing her with every muscle in my neck."
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1859117
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When I got out I didn't buy a new suit of clothes, step into a bar, or bargain for an hour with a whore.
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185921
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He tapped his foot, swished his hips, swaying across the worn tile floor with an invisible partner in his arms, the batter-coated spoon still clutched in his right hand, momentarily forgotten. Nearly a decade had passed since he last shared a dance with h
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185952
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My mate and I are owned, but have freedom to take to the endless sky.
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185911
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"John is going to love it when he finds out that it pees," Bobby said. Kelly laughed and dropped a towel on the floor.
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185921
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After he’d told her on Friday that No, he wasn’t going to sign that contract for the cemetery plots she’d picked out—“I don’t want to spend my whole life knowing exactly where I’ll end up” is exactly what he’d said—the marriage, as far as she was concerne
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185874
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185861
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At dinner in Marrakech, Namid danced on the table, waving a white napkin, propelled by jetlag and poor judgment.
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1858105
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The waters rose / on the earth
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18581311
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that moon does not think (unless mineral thoughts) . . .
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18583020
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Toting a sawed-off shotgun at the altar
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185883
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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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18571810
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I miss my fire from the first three races
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185782
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Jerry tries to be funny saying, I think Charlie Brown should kick Lucy in the head when she pulls the ball away; either that or they start making out. Ewww, but they're both eight years old, Sandra says biting her lip, tying off her smile. Jerry won't focus on her…
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18561013
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pluck me from the charred grate
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185695
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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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1856188
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"leaves &damage, &shifts of shape"
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185620
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The phone rang. Pete wiped his heavy eyes and squinted so he could see. He looked at the clock. It was five o’clock in the morning. He rolled over and tucked his head under his pillow. The phone rang again. He ignored it. It rang again. He picked up.
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1856178
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I kiss his sunburned nose, so nice under the beach house. We hear the shower of palm leaves like wings getting ready. We talk about a time we'll no longer know each other, when he'll be sad in a bar in another state, slipping and sliding and petting lost dogs in the parking…
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185512
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[DO NOT READ BETWEEN THIS LINE ... CITIZEN!]
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185541
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I would ask for your name/if your tongue wasn’t in my mouth.
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1855164
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Somewhere along tomorrow, I will forget I have the right to do this.
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185544
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If Single Stroke Seven were a cocktail, it would be a Bloody Mary made of one part Worcestershire sauce, the other part gas station vodka, and ketchup and hot sauce packets swiped from fast food joints. Chill with ice crystals chiseled off freezer walls,
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185454
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Jacabo gave the boy a can of beer with oxycontin and rat poison in it. He instructed the boy to drink and talk. Jacabo did this, fully aware that making ghosts was a costly enterprise.
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185460
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her: what are you worried about? me: the dog sitter.
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1854108
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hooves moon dark latch eyes rope / Bess the landlord's daughter, the landlord's blackeyed daughter / gun breasts dress shame shouts blood blood blood
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1854117
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I've been avoidingyour beautiful fact for years in just the past few hours it seemslike it was the scariest plague on earth. Andit worries me becauseit's something so new that Idon't know what to dowith myself.Yes I wouldn't knowwhat to…
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18542210
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"You are wolves circling, eyes burning in the dark...."
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1853116
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The voices he hears are God and the Devil and he knows the difference. Therefore, he is not mentally ill.
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185361
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At some point, Spiro thinks, everyone must look like a sniper.
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