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“Pupilo Durcál!” She yelled. “You stupid pendejo!” He limped along without another glance. Rosa suddenly realized her dreams all week were really omens.
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211010
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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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21101211
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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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2109125
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The right is empty, waiting to receive the load like a catcher behind home plate.
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210999
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What if I said;
I never liked actually reading?
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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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2109158
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Being simple like this, knowing a thing is done by doing.
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210963
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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.
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210921
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poon fred / loop ilo/ bussy yubb tree
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210953
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She wants her mother back and all I can give her is this—over and over. She doesn't want my mouth, wants no kissing anywhere even. Just this. Like this—quiet and rough. Quiet because her stepfather is napping in the bedroom next to…
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210900
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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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21091414
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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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210997
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the observation, at the end, more/
important than the being there—
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210810
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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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21082116
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Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back.
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210843
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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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2108105
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The waters rose / on the earth
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210767
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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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210782
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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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210733
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"Dad, I already told you about your wife. She’s not coming."
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210621
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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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210650
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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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21061918
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He was a tenth grade / messiah, famous for acts of attrition.
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210674
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Suddenly the auditory havoc dies down and she falls into a loop, saying BANANA CREME PIES FOR SIXTY PERCENTS over and over.
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210687
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Megan beat up on herself later over the unsaid.
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2106165
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Her eyes stared wide with panic, her teeth chattered intermittently with impressive intensity, and with her ineffectual stabs at the air she completed the portrait of distracted mania.
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210686
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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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210600
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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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210596
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Got me a 50 pound bat ray.
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