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[continued from part one...]After sweeps, my schoolwork started to slip. I had trouble paying attention in class, and my workbooks and tests came back from the teacher marked in ketchup red ink. I had always been a good student, and this academic…
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197622
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"You're going to have to call me 'dead eye' after I get this possum."
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197611
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I rummage around to see which of our many countertop appliances might do the trick. Yogurt maker? No, I need something with more muscle.
The Cuisinart--just the thing! I pick through the detachable blades—where’s the isotope shredder?
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1976139
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He saw symmetry, exquisite geometry, body and built world in harmony.
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19751810
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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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197533
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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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197532
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Love at first sight?
Not for me.
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197524
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"kissing her with every muscle in my neck."
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I. Sweet Anthill The anthill is in front of my house. It started with a cupcake I dropped on the ground, frosting first. The ants started to congregate, carrying sprinkles and cake crumbs into the deep sidewalk crack. A week…
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197421
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I built a house in the middle of the ocean. I used sunlight for nails. Wind for wood. Stars for chandeliers, the moon for a doorknob.
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by the time he's moves onto knives, she has appeared in next door's window: sliver of nut-pale belly, fingers wet with suds, nails painted bright as glitterballs.
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1974149
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It's eerie. There are no birds. My friend and I take our morning walk in a bubble of silence.
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. . . there is nothing so selfish as sleep.
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19741616
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WITH A BOW TO DOROTHY PARKERWhen his fingers sped along the keys, I'd need to sit. I'd such weak knees. I thought him charming, tall, and able, then he overturned the table. Chili, crackers, cheddar cheese crashed on me-he'd been displeased. I…
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whistling some blithering tune, trotting around the kitchen in his underwear with his ribs, a long row of meatless tragedies that screamed for something other than the meal he was making.
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197200
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A human cop and a cyborg detective team up to solve a case. A sci-fi-pulp-noir-detective story.
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197266
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As military tears soaked into hymnbook pages
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1972157
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My editor even said so: “Ralph, the Karmann Ghia is the only car for Henry. The only one he could have possibly driven.”
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19721814
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I become a lake, a river, a stream, an ocean that will one day be able to move anything, anyone.
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197276
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The trouble with paper horses was not how flimsy they were when you were flying them, reigns in hand, high enough above the treetops that falling would mean more than a bruised knee.
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197284
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When I was thirteen and still lived in the desert I saw a ghost woman at the top of a dry waterfall in the foothills.
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197232
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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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197222
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He had no leg to stand on and so what could he do but fall down, which is exactly what he did.
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1972109
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The winner was some kid from Ohio or Oklahoma -- one of those states that begins with an "O" and ends with a yawn.
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a world of probability against plague
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I turned on the television last night, and one of the networks had a segment about a girl with no nose.
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1971177
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You have transformed me into an aimless, sleepless wraith...
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1971128
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I got 3 good hubcaps
That oughta be enough
You can take away my house
You can take away my stuff
Just leave it on the curbside
With my beat-up Cadillac
Got my 3 good hubcaps
I ain’t never coming back
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