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Just bring me his head, that cerebral kiln of hot, ruddy verbiage and cadence.
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We draw a treasure map in the sandwait for the waves to wash it awayI ask you not to leave me stranded hereIf I'm bound for hell, I don't want to be left behindThe sun breaks through the edge of infinityspills over the line, soaking the sky…
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202400
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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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All of those lovelies, pitched on the ground, ignored and ready to rot.
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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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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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“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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202353
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A strange and unexpected shift has occurred.
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202333
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Marie shrugs. “Maybe she’s just late. Come on, let's wait by the jungle gym.” She runs over and starts climbing. The jungle gym is closest to the path that goes into the woods and down into the canyon. She has to get him into the woods somehow.
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202300
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No matter the guidance and support she received from her parents, her psychiatrist, and her friend; no matter how hard they tried to remind her of her humanity, Azure believes this chimera form is her true body now.
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202221
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Hi Zin, Really enjoyed seeing you again at Miranda Sinned. Looked like you enjoyed doing the St. Vitus. Don't ask me how but I got rum and coke on my panties. When I got home, I had a craving for tongue and my honey's talking squid, later, some fruit loops without milk. Q.…
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"Why so ornery?" she asked.
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On the table the image is by Chardin but the puzzle is by someone else and that is what he has dumped out of the box.
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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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At dinner in Marrakech, Namid danced on the table, waving a white napkin, propelled by jetlag and poor judgment.
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20221912
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He held my little hand in his and guided it through the dirt.
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202221
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Fleas were a constant reminder that humans are food.
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20221716
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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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202152
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The storm grew in might until it spawned the worst kind of tornado, an F-5 or Finger of God.
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202196
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The throw was the last leg of a triple play.
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202197
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500 miles
all the way from Omaha
nine hours
on the back of a flatbed truck
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202110
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And my word! Wouldn’t you know it, in two shakes of a jiffy they have shucked off all their clothes and are butt naked right here in my den. I don’t have to wonder what Mother would say if she could see them here. “Keep the noise down, boys!” I ha
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We wonder if this is how we tangled in our mother's womb: hands to feet to heart.
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Why can't you mimic your mythical counterpart? Anna Karenina? Have you never considered the tall dark stranger? The boot to the face, the fangs on the neck? Vronsky is Russian Gentry, a veritable prince and he swept that Anna off her feet in two sec
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202110
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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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202110
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Morpheus dreams… […fairground atmosphere burlesque hand-operated steam organs calliopes cut and spliced reversed harmonium kaleidoscopic grotesque waltzing carousel…] PABLO FANQUE'S CIRCUS ROYAL Grandest Night of the Season! and positively the LAST NIGHT BUT THREE! being…
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20211411
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She'd liked the name of the tanker. The Amoco Cadiz.
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202054
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Often we sit in silence and age. We are observers of dust, fashioning ourselves into antiques.
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202051
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unbury yourself from the silt and give me some seal love.
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She was a beautiful woman. I don't argue with that. I welcome it.
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