2070 15 14
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The mandatory is not / your friend
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207011
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I rummage around to see which of our many countertop appliances might do the trick. Yogurt maker? No, I need something with more muscle.
The Cuisinart--just the thing! I pick through the detachable blades—where’s the isotope shredder?
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207000
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You would never see me the same again. You'd always be peaking at me from behind your mother's apron.
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206910
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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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206953
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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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206982
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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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206932
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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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20692618
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Rothko explored horizons,/
blurring figure and ground/
by omitting the figure.
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206997
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the observation, at the end, more/
important than the being there—
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20681516
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You should be calling 911
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20682116
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Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back.
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2068165
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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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206821
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“Hear that?” asks my wife Amy. Books in hand, we relax on our flagstone patio. A shaft of late-day sun borrows through the maples' leafy canopy and deposits a dazzling, sunlit pool on Amy's lap. …
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20682016
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Just bring me his head, that cerebral kiln of hot, ruddy verbiage and cadence.
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2068145
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She asks if I would like to join them.
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20681716
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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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206710
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It's dawn. It's quiet on the pond in the Public Garden. The light is calm, the pollution is mild, and everything is still,except for the occasional cruising taxi. It's the beginning of spring-- tulips out, leaves…
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206751
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unbury yourself from the silt and give me some seal love.
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206700
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Face it girls, you want to claw my eyes out, don’t you? Or whack me across my 36 DD’s with a golf club, am I right? Well don’t blame me if I’m young, gorgeous, full-breasted and obviously the cat’s meow.
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206740
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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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206710
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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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206663
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At night, instead of sleep, there were new and secret pleasures. Half-awake lessons in dexterity, in the limber material of human life.
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206676
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Butch the Labradoodle sets some necessary boundaries.
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206696
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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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20662413
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You hear the thrum of blowflies first...
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20651711
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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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206500
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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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206453
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Somehow I always had to sit behind him. I remember because he had a constellation of skin tags on his neck. I thought about drawing stars on him; I thought about creating a new galaxy I would rule. I should have been learning math instead. I still can’t
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206480
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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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2064105
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The waters rose / on the earth
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