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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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202600
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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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Rothko explored horizons,/
blurring figure and ground/
by omitting the figure.
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I screwed my courage to the sticking point and asked him if he had shot down any Japanese airplanes. He grinned at me. “One,” he said.
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202521
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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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20251716
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"Why so ornery?" she asked.
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202553
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A strange and unexpected shift has occurred.
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20252016
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Just bring me his head, that cerebral kiln of hot, ruddy verbiage and cadence.
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She asks if I would like to join them.
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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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202452
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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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202485
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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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202496
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The throw was the last leg of a triple play.
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202454
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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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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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202496
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All of those lovelies, pitched on the ground, ignored and ready to rot.
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202421
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Fleas were a constant reminder that humans are food.
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20241716
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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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“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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202361
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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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202310
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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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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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20231912
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He held my little hand in his and guided it through the dirt.
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She'd liked the name of the tanker. The Amoco Cadiz.
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Often we sit in silence and age. We are observers of dust, fashioning ourselves into antiques.
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202251
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unbury yourself from the silt and give me some seal love.
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202297
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500 miles
all the way from Omaha
nine hours
on the back of a flatbed truck
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202274
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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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20221414
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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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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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