2499 12 11
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a snowflake won’t settle on a smoking furnace;
the fathers were never restless, it was always the earth that moved.
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3570 28 15
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When I was miranda and my mother Rose, ours was a skinless intimacy. miranda in Rose's womb, captured in an essence of love, anger, frustration, fear, the overwhelming stress of Rose's life heavy syrup that kept the bond between spirit and body weak and
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2250 25 21
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i could make swamp boys believe / under dust-sheets stiffened by ice
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1910 15 11
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...still the same old signs...
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2817 7 3
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2172 44 21
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He watches his paralyzed left arm arc across his body, then swivel around and disappear behind his back. He does this over and over again. He's very high and it makes him laugh.
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3316 24 22
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I will gobble them like tiny men, missions and things to prove.
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2279 60 16
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I didn't really know her. Yet, to me, she and her friends epitomized the local hip scene.
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2456 24 16
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7. Using Cohen's Method of Structure craft a piece of fiction featuring unexpected conflict. (12 points)
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2596 49 16
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You think about it all the time. Cancer cancer cancer. Cancer leg. Cancer arm. You've eaten too many cancer hot dogs and sausages in your life. You've gotten too many cancer sunburns. Cancer throat. Cancer head. Too much cancer sex.
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2660 33 19
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A man’s been in jail for six weeks awaiting trial. Lillian doesn’t say his name. A man kidnapped her from the grocery store parking lot. He raped her at his house, and again in the desert, chopped her hand off with an axe and left her for dead in the
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2592 29 13
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. . was the earliest born of the not-so-great Pedantic Poets . .
. . beleaguered by family financial crises that continued to the beginning of his life, he suffered periods of deep elation . .
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1841 24 22
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Last summer our marriage took a direct hit and crashed into a deep pit with little warning when Millicent met a Facebook man and simply left, taking up with him, presenting him with my space in her life to receive her touch and this thought perpetually gnaws away, making me…
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3402 40 16
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Most of us are just ordinary mutts with no gift for writing, nothing like Joyce James [or] any of those...
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2330 34 22
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The next winter the house burned down.
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2318 36 19
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"She gnawed her arm off in the morning, before he woke...."
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360 39 20
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She was fast as the wind and lived on air, her clothes a size 0000.
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2294 13 11
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It’s so hard to get to know people these days. Even the social ones wall you out with politeness. Like jackknives with pearl handles in a display case.
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2036 52 22
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I doused back three Buds in the time it took him to detest a variety of subjects including the naivety of quantum physics and pregnant women.
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2186 28 23
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the waves all green and gooey, all / pommes frites, ruinous, insolent, half / fractal
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2023 23 19
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“Mescaline occurs naturally in our bodies, you know,” I said.
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2170 44 20
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He was manic, depressive, schizophrenic, bipolar, paranoid, cyclothymic, borderline, or a genius.
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2388 21 16
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The afternoon my little sister won her first U.S. Open, I was also busy, having strenuous sex with David Solemn, a man I’d met earlier that morning at Dunkin Donuts. We did it on the white living room carpet in my parent’s new Connecticut house while
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2540 11 10
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Bruno Hackmann and I hung out all summer, and then Joe came back from Persia.
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1870 25 24
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When I was eight years old, I stepped into / a snow bank in Pennsylvania and sank / in over my head
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2284 35 19
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The gull put its foot down, stretched its wings out and swept into the salty breeze.
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2158 29 23
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Each death a sonnet, every grief / fourteen lines.
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2002 24 21
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These days, even God has a day job.
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1822 18 16
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2526 54 13
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Once, an elephant contracted a sudden bolt of insanity in the streets of Ernakulam and trampled three children under her feet before she was shot to death. It took them seven bullets to bring her down.
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