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I was just sitting in the corner, stirring my stories with a straw that sucked characters out of bars.
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I sighed and looked deep into his eyes. “There is nothing more powerful than denial.”
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A shot in the dark and everything goes black. It's as if the story never happened.
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In her belief that Juni is lucky, Jade eases the horrors our mother suffers at night, not because Juni is stuck in a physical passion, but because the whole family and whole groups of strangers know what Juni is doing for sex.
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One of the women is a brassy blond, and when she takes off her coat, I almost choke on a French fry.
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“Pull out, pull out, you dimwit!” Cheryl B told Andy. “I told you to pull out before you came, if you ever expect to climb up on top of me again! God, Andy, what’s wrong with you?”
Cheryl had flaming red hair and was what we now call “Plu
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She is a manifold of temporal flows.
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Keep it quick (and they usually did) and it was simple.
Quick as the walk between their houses, from number 27 to number 33 (odd numbers only), and simple as the alibi.
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For you, airplane wings said 'life has not been kind here'. Kind, like what was missing was tea or as if we didn't clean our windows properly. There was that time when, stood in the kitchen Rupert saw the fire. Flames lapping at the gate of…
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They sit across from each other and she smiles as if they were in a normal place.
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Montauk was the solution. He had no job, no money. He could stay for the winter at the summer place. It would be a lark. He had come home to Great Neck after losing the last job and they were making broad hints at him to move…
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Look, “Wolfie,” (or “Pharaoh,” or whatever your name is now) a little too much information, don’t you think? I don’t need to hear all the details about you and Sharon. It’s my life, and I’ll cry if I want to – to alter the song just a
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As soon as a complication emerges, the obvious choice is to move to another line. But I don't. I can't.
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Like the willow she stands alone, swaying.
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You sleep in equative lip biting slumber
hugging a pillow you think is someone else.
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I thought to tell him I do not love raspberries, but blueberries, but he did not attend to the things I loved.
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Both men sip their Cabernet Franc.
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When I came back from California the second time, in the summer of 1965, I was the first around our town to wear my hair long, influenced by the Beatles. And I bought a bunch of blue caps that everyone in our gang wore, with the number “69” sown on
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She sets the muffins aside, opens herself, nymph-like, mouth spread and gritty. She pulls the dirty edge of his gray t-shirt up so to show herself to him, spreads herself across the mattress like thin flesh oil over too much canvas....
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I should have created a first-date questionnaire heartaches ago.
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He stood with the bride of quietness / on the precipice of questions
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With a madman’s laugh, she realized her mistake and discarded it as irrelevant.
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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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The smell of Coppertone Suntan Lotion always brings back memories of the beach. I remember you rubbing it on my stomach and you kept moving lower and lower. I had on a bikini bottom (very daring) and you rubbed your finger all along the rim of it just a
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Things have happened.
It’s a given. What, are you crazy? Of course things have happened. It’s the world, for Christ’s sake. Things are happening. I am consistently missing most, if not all, of them.
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“All I want,” he was heard to say, “is a date with a really
good-looking woman before I go away.”
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I feel a strange loneliness for her...I think I will go to the beach, and forgive it for its sharp sand and lack of trees.
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It rises rigid and plumb from its heavy base, the severity of line yielding to grace only at the throat where it crests into a subtly constrictive pinch.
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She made them all watch ``Oceans Eleven'', even the baby...
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With a sigh she rubbed her face into wakefulness, and then sucked two fingers, thinking of melted cheese.
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