3504 19 13
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2996 22 16
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The movies he liked best were the ones in which white people played Asian leads. Since his girlfriend had left, that Barry was adopted had seemed to become more of a fact.
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2729 26 17
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Everybody in Amsterdam spoke English, and unlike the French, they didn't pretend that they didn't.
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3436 29 17
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Didn't Max Perkins die, like they said?
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1963 9 11
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I answered with my usual economy of words. If someone wants more, they must ask, and he did.
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1815 38 18
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2970 35 18
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She doesn’t notice the small group of women in saris, emerald and garnet, sapphire and citrine, the cloth covered with mirrors glinting in the light. Or how they link plump brown arms, frightened or delighted by the attention, huddled close, bird-like ch
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2204 23 18
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Five girls wobble into the train car. Their blistered feet protrude from the bedazzled straps of their sandals. Conductor: “Girls in the back with the open containers, you can't have those on the train.” A heavy-set girl in a belted yellow mini-dress…
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226 33 17
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The train sits in the main station and you see a man foist himself into a seat next to a young woman in jeans, stabbing his lit cigarette close to her face, "Don't you ever pretend you don't know me again, you hear?"She freezes. Only her eyes frantically dart, lock onto…
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3092 39 16
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836 17 15
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There is, between us, a flickering lantern. We're not tired yet but the bugs are converging and hitting the side of the tent. The little ones, the mosquitoes, the gnats, the noseeums, they're finding their way in in spite of the zipped up mosquito nettin
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2157 30 17
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It was a surprise they put me in a dormitory, not a cell,
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2328 21 14
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3435 3 1
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The phone screamed again, nearly rattling off the hook, and I winced. Only in the dead of night, silence all around it and with the ring so unexpected, did it register as an alarm like this.
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2050 27 19
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On the bus I sat like an ounce.
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2055 21 19
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Every day hurts, just a little, but not enough
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2824 27 16
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“White,” he says. -- “Black,” I answer.
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2448 26 17
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My wife tells me I should marry Pam. “She would be good for you,” she says.
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2232 24 18
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If you’re not dead yet, you’ll die of something.
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3663 15 7
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It was a lovely day all the horrors in deep hiding
leaving me, leaving all of us, a chance to wonder why
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2016 8 7
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I'd been working for two years as a barista in a Starbuck's in a giant, two-story Borders in an upscale mall on Rt. 355, a main artery between Washington D.C., and Frederick, Maryland. I'd finished my M.F.A in 2000 and was trying to build up steam for more grad…
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3606 35 14
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Even after he shot me, I still loved him and even after I was dead I wanted to be with him. So I forgave him once more and made the crucial decision to come back to earth as a dog. …
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2114 26 18
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Rothko explored horizons,/
blurring figure and ground/
by omitting the figure.
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1983 10 10
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A block after his first crime, he found a bookstore to commit another.
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2901 22 17
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Mama reads about UFOs in paperback books and newspapers with big cloudy pictures. Her girlfriends know about flying saucers, too. They get drunk at night when they are sitting all alone in their living rooms because they are divorced or married to men who
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2173 26 18
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sooner or later you realize
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1979 25 18
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2193 37 18
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so sassy so sassy so cool
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2415 27 18
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his dreams are filled / with aprons
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2453 27 17
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He's Eric Roberts, the stalker and eventual killer in Star '80.
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