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“Too perfect.” my therapist intervenes in assurance, “You did enough, really. More than anyone else would.” I know the subtext is that I possibly did more than I should. My appointment is coincidentally later that day, after his goodbye letter arrives in
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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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The other day I’m in the backyard with one of my kids, doing what he’s calling a training exercise, which is basically the two of us with flashlights, shinning the beams over the grass and up into the night to see what we can see.
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For Hector it was animals. Rats, dogs, fish, and quite often horses – sometimes even lions. But for Achilles, it was always dead bodies.
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"Why so ornery?" she asked.
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I'm in awe of her frankness, how she takes my breath away, how I wish to rush off with her to a splendid hideaway where only the two of us touch the grape-stained mountains and the cerulean sea, wild blades of grass quivering with the breeze. Sometimes th
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204953
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A strange and unexpected shift has occurred.
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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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204996
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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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All of those lovelies, pitched on the ground, ignored and ready to rot.
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Azure became silent. She never thought of her death before, nor thought about actually fighting creatures and saving people’s lives.
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Who is the moron that invented the Snuggie?
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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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Describe how like or unlike a vagina a peach pit is, using no anatomical words.
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204897
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500 miles
all the way from Omaha
nine hours
on the back of a flatbed truck
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It calmed the guilt in my heart while kids reveled, laughed, and "made time" with the neighborhood girls on that final night of freedom.
No one would talk to those girls again.
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Sometimes, they beat their masters home...
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204811
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WIFE (calling back from kitchen): "Dick Cheney's penis!"
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What can I say about my brother, Stroman. We are twins and we hate each other. He is an honest, brave man with scruples. He is full of bullshit. He thinks I am morally twisted. He probably has a point there, but I don’t see what that has got to do with
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Often we sit in silence and age. We are observers of dust, fashioning ourselves into antiques.
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204701
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meanings figure into traffic streams reds fade, trickle down the long ‘V' another passing human ear; tall, tall buildings paper poised on horizon. situations gape in and out of seconds corners turn to disappearance, witness follows fingers…
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204754
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The tall, standing woman with bright red lipstick, elegant at one time, you could tell, responding, “She has dementia,” pointing at her brain. “She was a Holocaust survivor.”
And the one they’re talking about turns as she’s pushing her wal
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204752
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Having a single blurb on your book cover is like having a single friend in grade school. So I lied.
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204763
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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.
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204797
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"... I knew Willie had gone— out the back door or out the side window. I knew he probably slipped over the fence behind my house into Lou C.’s backyard..."
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“There are no inhibitions in here,” the postman shouted, gesturing at the dance floor with his Marlboro Light, the glowing tip aimed at a woman in a taut skirt. Leaning far forward, her hands nearly touching the plywood floor, she planted her feet and beg
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Casting nets like Jesus to a metaphor sea
Admittedly as weak as me
But I need the hike,
Like we still like Ike
To tell us about the Military Industrial Complex
Though he never told us what came next
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“What about the other groups coming here?” I ask. “Were they asked what they wanted in these houses?” She turns and looks at me, like I've suddenly come onto her radar.
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Cap'n Pepper tries and tries but Old Salty is never happy.
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Man, you never ceased to crack me up! If you thought you'd just been called a homo, you probably wouldn't want to try to disprove it by grabbing hold of a naked guy and wrestling him to the floor of a shower room.
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