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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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210496
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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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21041414
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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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210375
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When detox-man drives away, the windows down, the radio playing on the classic rock station (The Eagles), he thinks about moving out of town.
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210386
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in her monestary mission, with her rosary and candles, time holds me here
my feet got the travelin' blues but my hands tie old women's bones to my hair
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21032016
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Just bring me his head, that cerebral kiln of hot, ruddy verbiage and cadence.
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210300
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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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210340
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Let whoever may read this know: I am an evil man, and I have done evil things.
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210310
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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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2102125
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The right is empty, waiting to receive the load like a catcher behind home plate.
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210241
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I'm delighted to report that I've come up with my own school of thought. It's called, "Dress Like a Cat Until You Get What You Want."
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210222
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one numberless character, an army of rants marching one by one, sand by sand, we move mountains this way…
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21021711
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She drew her hands out of the chest cavity and looked at the clock.
‘Time of death,’ she said.
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210294
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And I watched,
from her warm bed,
the curtains dancing
in the window
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2102158
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Being simple like this, knowing a thing is done by doing.
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210282
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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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210221
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flash read. have fun *cheers*
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210200
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Once upon a time a queen was blessed with twin sons, which she named Nosch and Amiaivel.
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210297
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the observation, at the end, more/
important than the being there—
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210167
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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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21011716
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"Why so ornery?" she asked.
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21011311
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You'll be gone. I'll be gone. I'd hate to think how it was all for nothing, that all we did was stumble into a pretty big hole of our own making. The best place for a broken heart after all is in your own sweet chest. No one else…
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2101105
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The waters rose / on the earth
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210100
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The corpse lay silently in his open casket. Dressed in the finest silken suit. Italian. Rubber skin pulled over his bones. Arms folded in eternal prayer.
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210021
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“Your brain, your brain tries to make sense of things like this, specially life-threatening weird shit, so in my mind the grass was on fire and driving out swarms of invisible bees that were stinging us to death. Invisible killer bees. You don’t shoot be
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210050
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Please direct your attention to the flight attendants as they demonstrate the safety features of this aircraft.
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210022
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The mother was happy, though. She was happy because she could make him some soup and then she could feed it to him in bed.
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2100148
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I like the smoke going in
but I like it even more
when it's coming out
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2100119
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strumming on the pipe/blowing on the lute's body/drumming on the horn.
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