2089 4 0
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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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2089 2 1
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... red lipstick shiny in the bar's light, raven-colored hair spiky and toussled. Jen opened her mouth to say something, stickiness of her cherry Chapstick separating with her lips ... and the girl leaned in and started kissing her.
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2088 1 0
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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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2088 9 9
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What if I said;
I never liked actually reading?
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2088 21 16
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Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back.
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2088 3 2
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He wasn’t there for the beginning or the end. In the beginning, he was still a wild thing. Nothing more than a voice in the chorus of the Dark Continent, back when it was a thing of terrible beauty and attracted people like the old man; people who breathe
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2087 6 7
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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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2087 2 1
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poon fred / loop ilo/ bussy yubb tree
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2087 5 3
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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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2087 3 2
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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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2087 6 4
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Riding in a pick-up-truck,
the radio wailing
some 'love em and leave em" country song,
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2086 7 5
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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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2086 9 6
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Got me a 50 pound bat ray.
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2086 9 2
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You never thought you were capable of rape.
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2086 17 16
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"Why so ornery?" she asked.
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2086 13 11
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He had her pinned to the back seat, expressing his love. Do you love me? she whispered in his ear. Do you, do you, Jimmy Dale, do you love me? His only response…
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2086 8 6
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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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2086 8 2
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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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2086 1 0
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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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2085 14 4
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"What I need to wear the ring for," I said to myself, "I already got his last name..."
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2085 4 1
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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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2085 17 11
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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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2085 18 5
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2085 0 0
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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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2085 15 3
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He stopped the shower and recounted his life, now Kin-less and plain.
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2084 10 5
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The waters rose / on the earth
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2084 0 0
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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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2084 15 8
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Being simple like this, knowing a thing is done by doing.
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2084 9 7
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the observation, at the end, more/
important than the being there—
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2083 2 2
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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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