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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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On the bus I sat like an ounce.
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Every day hurts, just a little, but not enough
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“White,” he says. -- “Black,” I answer.
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My wife tells me I should marry Pam. “She would be good for you,” she says.
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If you’re not dead yet, you’ll die of something.
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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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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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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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Rothko explored horizons,/
blurring figure and ground/
by omitting the figure.
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A block after his first crime, he found a bookstore to commit another.
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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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sooner or later you realize
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so sassy so sassy so cool
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his dreams are filled / with aprons
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He's Eric Roberts, the stalker and eventual killer in Star '80.
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Threads of sadness in the hands, in the touch
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Lined up like ghosts on the front lawn, the second-hand porcelain fixtures had embarrassed her.
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Oh what fun they had riding that bike! What adventures! They went everywhere, in town and out.
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In the 15 years that I've worked at my local public library, I've learned that we librarians do plenty of things for our patrons that aren't in our job descriptions. After a patron asked me to change her flat tire, and another wanted to check out our pencil sharpener,…
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I'm reading your remains.
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. . . there is nothing so selfish as sleep.
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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?
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When I died, she said, she was going to have me cremated and put my ashes in the cats’ litter box.
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When Charlie woke up he couldn’t find his inner Charlie.
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One day a woman, one of several translators at Ellis Island, asks him why he has changed a passenger’s name from Checzowicz to something else.
“The name was too long,” he says. “Ten letters.”
She replies, “But you didn’t change O’Shaughnessy, and it has
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list:
almond message oil
almond sunset tea
dark chocolate 80%
dry rhubarb soda
lavender bath oil
musk candles
red light bulb
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