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My only brother. Frantic flesh clings to bone.
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2842 12 10
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You wanted to be a writer. Now you’re a writer.
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4174 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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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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2392 25 21
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i could make swamp boys believe / under dust-sheets stiffened by ice
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3582 15 11
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...still the same old signs...
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2817 7 3
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2393 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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3538 24 22
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I will gobble them like tiny men, missions and things to prove.
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2812 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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2621 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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2848 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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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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. . 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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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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5165 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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3115 34 22
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The next winter the house burned down.
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2590 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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2761 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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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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2786 28 23
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the waves all green and gooey, all / pommes frites, ruinous, insolent, half / fractal
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2364 23 19
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“Mescaline occurs naturally in our bodies, you know,” I said.
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2937 44 20
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He was manic, depressive, schizophrenic, bipolar, paranoid, cyclothymic, borderline, or a genius.
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3087 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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3062 5 5
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The blue bird tapped at my window and pecked my crumbs. I talked to him as to a small person about the things of life, of flowers, of trees and the sky. Even at times pretending he was erudite, I questioned him about evolution and extinction. He looked at me as if he…
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Bruno Hackmann and I hung out all summer, and then Joe came back from Persia.
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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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3774 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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Each death a sonnet, every grief / fourteen lines.
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