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With the sudden addition of a comma and a pronoun, the clause declared its independence.
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A landscape has the tendency to take on new dimensions when night comes.
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“How’s the Pinto running?” Sean says. It’s been awhile. Maybe Darcy won’t remember him.
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And it struck me. You needed to be on the side of a milk carton. 2 percent of course.
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They take her cookies
they take her Coke
they take her Kleenex
the whole box
not the used ones
They take, they steal
everything
They’d take the brain
out of an ox
if they could
Diamonds they steal
bars of soap
as long as they
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All through their descent sequence K’var had nervous premonitions.
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I squeeze the soft bag tighter between my legs.
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I'm waiting in line for the only bathroom in this bar while my mother is dying somewhere. I don't know where. I have to piss really bad. An obese Cinderella is in front of me and a zombie with ample…
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It amazes me that with everything this woman has to be depressed about, what really gets her down is an inadequate lounge chair.
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The world moves its roving glass eye around in front of you like a dog trying to flip over a frisbee, as if trying to show you how the loveliness of all things here and yet there, from an anything goes, different, always shifting,…
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Because she is waiting, seated on my hotel bed, making comments about my sonic white toothbrush being a vibrator, telling me she's bi, gorgeous with her poly-amorous discussion and long brown curling hair, with her fawn-like face and delicate breasts, wit
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We will cut you up and feed you to the sharks.
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Now, both the feline and the infant have abstractly different levels of cognitive function. But, they both share one thing in common. Neither of them have trained eyes. Sometimes, both the cat and the baby will track the same invisible object across the r
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The following is an excerpt of my commencement speech at The Hamlin Refrigeration Vocational Institute. Although I am NOT terminally ill, in all honesty, I haven’t been feeling all that great since, I would say, around April…
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She stroked the piano softly with one hand and I shivered. Maybe it was the keys singing or the way her eyes were closed forcing her to feel her way to right spot or the sex in her voice. Maybe it was just in my head.
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The story begins ... There were no pigs' huts of straw or stick or stone.
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Rerunning, now it's published.
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A toothy grin greets me at my Public Storage counter. He visits every week. Peering through the wire first, he opens his cage door, gaze lingering. Finally he departs. Nothing ever placed or removed. Emptiness, that looming…
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Brian takes off his size eleven shoe and shakes it out on the table.
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All carcinoma/
would be hors d’oeuvres/
for its dark appetite.
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Amish-like, between the sheets.
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Don’t rub me out now, not tonight. Or if you do, do it right.
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He told me to count backwards from 10. I was out by 8. He was now in complete control of my life – what a helpless situation.
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Minerva one night had a change of plans, for Mr. Wright knocked on her door in the form of a potbellied perv with a Vaseline mustache.
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He wanted to walk in, take off his scrubs, and not have to look at pictures of peaches.
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The explosions sound like gunshots. Antonio Gattorno, absorbed in his work, flinches. He curses as he smears the brush across the canvas. He’s been painting since mid-morning. It‘s a hot summer day. Tomorrow is the fourth of July.
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Every few days, on one of our walks, the dog and I go down to a shallow, quick river...
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My life is life in shape alone./
The substance leaks away like blood/
removed by the embalmer’s art.
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My name is Mandy and I'll be your narrator today. I'd like to welcome you aboard. You will be reading at the approximate speed of one hundred words per minute. Total estimated reading time will be about fifteen minutes. At this time, I'd like to point out several of the…
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