2153 1 0
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Danica saw her hand with the ring lifted up by Oryn. Both of their eyes locked onto the red gem and Danica understood what Oryn offered.
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2152 24 7
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I watched as the light fled
from your eyes,
No slowly dimming lamp,
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2152 19 9
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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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2152 12 5
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2152 0 0
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A dark-haired, handsome man adjusted the headset he was wearing, leaned toward a microphone, and eyed his host, a curly-haired man with a toothy grin, who sat up straight as he received a cue from his producer.
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2152 11 9
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strumming on the pipe/blowing on the lute's body/drumming on the horn.
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2152 13 10
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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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2152 7 3
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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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2152 9 6
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The phone owner pre-writes his or her dying words! The app stores them and releases them at the moment of his death!
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2152 8 3
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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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2151 5 1
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unbury yourself from the silt and give me some seal love.
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2151 3 4
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I’m going to stop there, before the darkness sets in.
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2151 17 16
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Ed wants to watch the last half of the football game. His wife wants him to mow the lawn.
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2150 2 1
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My dear Papa: I don't care to join you on holiday. Last summer when I came you and Frau Himmelfarb played "Wildlife Management" so late into the night that I got no rest.
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2150 5 3
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Once upon a time, my friend and I met a nanny pushing a baby carriage and reading an e-book. She wore a plaid dress, blue stockings and a white barrette. A set of wrinkles marred her tanned brow. Multitasking seemed too hard on her.
Inside the carriage
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2150 11 7
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He was her summer fling, the first cock to crow when the sun rose over her tequila smile.
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2150 3 2
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This is what my summer has come to: me, out of a job, aimlessly driving around the city looking for places to write, places to read, places to occupy my time.
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2150 14 14
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That was before Cohen died. Castro died. Castro Died should be a title by Samuel Beckett. Once I nearly went out to buy a bass clarinet just for the purpose of playing along with Leonard Cohen.
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2149 0 0
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Now coins used for wishing are not like coins used to purchase bread or carrots. Coins that have been invested with the magic of hopes and desires are special and have special properties. The difference between wishing coins and ordinary coins is very subtle.
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2149 17 16
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"Why so ornery?" she asked.
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2149 11 6
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2149 13 7
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2148 23 15
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proving little more/
than the player’s keyboard dexterity.
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2148 4 3
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Words are not like bricks. The neighborhood flowers from within the rituals that enframe the drinking of a macchiato in a café. Now it hovers over the page.
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2148 7 4
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Start with a long look down the alley, a small hoodied figure turning in.
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2148 2 1
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flash read. have fun *cheers*
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2148 8 8
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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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2147 5 3
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A strange and unexpected shift has occurred.
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2147 14 5
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She asks if I would like to join them.
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2147 15 8
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Being simple like this, knowing a thing is done by doing.
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