1452 13 6
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The three were up early to await the deer with rifles, ammunition, and coffee.
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890 7 5
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"You wantin' one of them kittens? If we can't give 'em away we're gonna drown 'em. We got too many."
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1577 9 7
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leaves of a season/float into a brook among/bubbles fit to burst.
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1220 10 6
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Here comes my speed dealer
he's riding shotgun in the open
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Call it a spell or a prayer or a ritual; it worked.
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1209 5 4
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“You haven’t been listening, have you.”
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The day came shyly up to me like a rolling orange thing. Perhaps of alien origin, but not if the Buddha of our foolish hopeless dreamer inside has anything to say about it. It said, pick me up. I did. It looked like forever on the inviting horizon with trees as…
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135 9 3
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The oranges are dreaming that they have turned to apples.
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1309 12 8
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Trigger warning: casualties of war.
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812 4 3
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The light is always on in reality
The Gelatinous Mass is not something made up
By the Catholic Church
And even though a small deer may have come to the side of the road once
To lick the salt from your wounds
There will definitely be cheap fish
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1068 6 4
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He peels the garlic while I stir the lentils; he chops the cilantro while I peel kale leaf from stem. Also, the rings. Also, no one is going anywhere.
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1201 2 2
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I recently discovered that the man I'd loved and trusted for twenty years had a secret girlfriend on the side for the past decade. We've parted ways and I'm trying to go on with my life. At about the same time, my friend Judy lost her beloved elderly dog after…
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1278 10 8
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My sister / craves raisons
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1613 6 6
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Everyday the buildings seem to be getting taller and taller.
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876 10 7
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"The sheriff's mother-in-law made the smoothest 'shine in the county."
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863 2 2
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Walking with one giant dog and one tiny one, I didn’t feel at home, but I felt something better.
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Street mime in white face and white gloves, trapped in invisible box. Tip jar empty. Marcel's solo-dancing the tango now, teeth clenching ephemeral rose. Passersby pass him by.
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1081 2 2
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Steve lowers himself onto a lounge chair and lets out a long, overdue sigh. Cliff and Jim, the frickin’ and frackin’ of the built-in pool industry, are making a Burger Chef run while the cement sets.
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1201 13 10
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I need a different storage solution
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1134 4 4
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On our wedding day he carried all of the furniture out of our small bedroom, created a sanctuary.
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1332 13 7
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Can we survive our Y chromosome?
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1280 4 4
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However could anyone get Joyce scholarship mixed up with physical anthropology?
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1017 11 10
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1265 2 2
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The young boy sat on the swing, hearing sirens in the distance. The tops of his shoes were dirty. His fingers as well, where he drew stick figures of people in the dirt. His…
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990 0 0
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Polo observed Madam Mayweather’s demeanor. The concern in her eyes for the students and faculty under attack by the Nocturne.
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1150 6 5
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Yes, I can imagine it now/
how we could each disappear completely/
connected only through memory's fault lines/
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1238 7 6
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Only blood I got on me was pulling him over onto my seat when I got out.
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1675 10 8
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Wake up, stretch. Check the curtained windows for sunlight or
that dreaded grey frame that forces the covers to come back up
and the alarm clock to be set to ‘Snooze’.
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1405 8 5
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Without warning his eyes expertly navigated into a closed position setting off the dream machine long without power until this very second.
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1107 5 5
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The princess knew exactly where to find the annoying gurgling frog of her childhood, but she wasn't wearing the right shoes to step onto lily pads with, so she decided there and then to take a stolen boat out onto that soft mission, all by herself instead. It was a…
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