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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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Often we sit in silence and age. We are observers of dust, fashioning ourselves into antiques.
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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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You cheat with a stripper--joke I told to your wife. I didn't know that she couldn't take a goof.
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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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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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She was a forward-motion girl. She never bothered to learn to walk as a baby. Instead, she stood up and ran.
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A team of reggae journalists played and an unknown man came after work for me in a kilt.
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You just watch, the schoolteachers’ll be next and then you’ll see shit go down. Imagine what happens when a fifth-grader sees his teacher getting frog-marched through a crowd on YouTube.
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"Why so ornery?" she asked.
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In grief, I'd ride a slow train there with you, /
one hand in yours and one hand on the rail,
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Bloop. Velvet's paws hit the carpet. The new man of the house is on the prowl for food, a walk. Breakfast was Rice-A-Roni; for lunch I'm serving Ring Dings. Perhaps he'd like a bite?
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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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proving little more/
than the player’s keyboard dexterity.
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Miguel's mom told everyone if you pressed your ear against the knot, Jesus would tell you special secrets.
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The fettuccine is a disaster. Mini-ants have invaded the container. Barry spots them in the boiling water after pouring in the pasta, not much more than floating black specks, but too many to ignore. He dumps out the pasta and returns to the closet to…
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Back arching, spine twisted, muscles tense and turning. I am putting off my work. Jane Eyre is in the back of my mind whispering about childhood patriarchy and I am still clinging to images from dreams before waking; my last lover's face scrunched and…
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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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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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She asks me what she should do, and I say I don't know because I'm no good at handling fragile things. She says, let's talk about you. I say I can't - phone signal, you know. She calls me anyway, twice, then leaves a message saying that she just wanted to
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"You're going to have to call me 'dead eye' after I get this possum."
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“Jesus fall the second time. You want a map? Ten shekels.”
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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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You should be calling 911
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It came up heads so he is going first. He puts on a condom and gets in
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You'll be gone. I'll be gone. I'd hate to think how it was all for nothing, that all we did was stumble into a pretty big hole of our own making. The best place for a broken heart after all is in your own sweet chest. No one else…
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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.
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Jasmine invited herself over and plopped herself on my futon. "Let's fuck," she said, bluntly. "I want to."
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He tried to call on his break but she didn’t answer. He imagined her on the floor, sobbing, like she’d been the other day. The grey rat would have chewed through a plug-in or some wires and started a fire. She would be ashes, a blackened corpse, reeki
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On a corkboard in the entryway of the Leetonia Shurfine Market a curling handwritten sign said Room for Rent. Kitchen Living Room Laundry Privlages. $65 Weekly.
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