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Sloe Gin Fizz is pink
Bombay Gin comes in blue
I’m sitting here at Emerald’s
And all I can think of is –
you.
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187031
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Picking up a perfect stranger—perfect meaning dead, in this case—and shaping him into the man you’d want him to be is not so easy.
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“Jesus fall the second time. You want a map? Ten shekels.”
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chet baker shades my eyes
rippling through the cool water
sometimes we feed the fish
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Erwin came into the kitchen through the back door and went straight to the sink to clean up. Black mud and dried blood crusted his fingertips and caked the callused whorls of his knuckles. He used the round of strong-smelling soap he kept for…
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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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“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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"Why so ornery?" she asked.
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Train travel is listed as a possible cause for deep vein thrombosis, a condition that causes blood to clot in the legs. Ray did not tell me this, but I looked it up later, remembered the disability status on his Charlie Card.Baclofen is not used for the treatment of…
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The impression old Updike left on a young mind.
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He wears an old black tux, shiny at the elbows, and his gray hair has been styled and sprayed into a fragile tornado. On his lap sits a Chihuahua wearing a bridal outfit—veil and all.
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A great doubt had shut out the light inside us, but each of us called for our lover at the end, and she was generous. Carrying us along inside her over vast distances, chilling our soul with sudden terrible flashes of light.
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Alma Tucker settled into middle age with the comfort that escapes most women. Her festival queen days gone. Along with her wispy waist and cherry blond hair, replaced by broader curves and graying tresses. She was content with the way age had changed her
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That stupid bastard seemed to defy death at every turn in his life. His actions suggested invincibility, but his catch phrase indicated full awareness that he was indeed quite vincible.
And how fitting was his name. We didn’t know if it
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I made my way quietly out back and sat in Helga’s whitewashed porch swing, listening to the first faint sounds of big band music drift out of Helga’s open windows and into the cooling summer air. The darkness was moving in slow from the east, interrup
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I know now, how she moves without verbs
after you crushed her into the river.
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January 3rd EST/January 2nd PST 2002 It's 1:45 am or 10:45 pm depending on your philosophy about changing your watch when you fly. My plane is scheduled to land in San Francisco soon, but I'm completely disoriented because I've just had my first post-9/11 dream. …
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We were over Casper, Wyoming, when some terrorists tried to take over the airplane. They had concealed weapons.
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He moved his rotten breath closer to my mouth, like he wanted to twirl his tongue around just to see how it felt.
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A discussion at the homeless colony under the expressway overpass crossing the river:
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1867139
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He saw symmetry, exquisite geometry, body and built world in harmony.
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the pollen of your kisses and the shouts of your love shaking the sky
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186652
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I got a chance to study story structure, character development, and writing of dialogue in an intense boot camp laced with orange jello and intravenous drugs.
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Being simple like this, knowing a thing is done by doing.
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I need a different storage solution
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Rothko explored horizons,/
blurring figure and ground/
by omitting the figure.
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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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Ed wants to watch the last half of the football game. His wife wants him to mow the lawn.
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This is not a story you expect to end at Cape Horn.
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