1679 14 14
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The scent of fresh cut grass./
The idiot sense of accomplishment/
mowing the lawn can bring.
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622 13 15
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1272 21 18
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After the funeral there was a luncheon in the church basement.
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1838 32 18
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“Spare change?” he asked the couple heading into the cineplex. They glanced at his brother, saw something was wrong with him, then at him, noting his dirty and disheveled state. They passed without a word, not even a head-shake.
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951 18 17
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The courts had scheduled the date long ago but the time, an hour always left to the warden, had yet to be decided.
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1434 24 16
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He would lean on his window sill in the evening and watch the whores. They wore gaudy clothes and too much makeup.
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1920 25 13
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Her addiction started with dry roasted nuts, and quickly jumped to peanuts. At her worst, she was consuming a large glass jar of peanuts daily. She loved while hating their salty taste and greasy feel, the repetition of tossing them into her mouth. …
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1563 19 17
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It felt like I was somewhere I wasn’t supposed to be, like I’d walked into a house that looked like mine, but belonged to someone else.
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1401 21 16
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Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back.
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1489 26 18
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Watching water fall in the longest waterfall/
becomes immediately tedious
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1412 18 17
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One day my wife got so mad at me she raked her fingernails down my face.
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1468 38 17
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His face was cold and hard as marble. Rudy’s angular features shuddered and twitched in the darkness.
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1394 23 15
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“Why, you tell a story,” one young fellow said. The expression on his face said “How gauche, how passé!”
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2219 21 16
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I arranged all my books before you came, /
so that it appears I read some more than others.
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1849 9 9
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There were trees where I lived
and clean pavement
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1184 23 15
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I am long of tooth, too, and when I go, maybe a box with my ashes inside will join the boxes containing the cats’ remains.
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Suddenly there was a crash of thunder, and they raised their eyes for the first time heavenwards. That was the beginning of what we call civilisation. - adapted from Prolegomena to Work in Progress — Stuart GilbertIt's the third year of the third millenium,…
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Where we live, at the edge of the foothills at the east edge of town, fire is always a worry during the summer, and this has been an exceptionally dry year.
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1707 28 18
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After my father moved in with his girlfriend, my mother sold the split-level and rented a two-bedroom in an apartment complex rife with divorced mothers and the under-employed.
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1567 35 16
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My heart beat someone up the stairwell.
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6524 18 17
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Why was the broom late for work?
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1276 27 14
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Your writing offended the editors greatly, and we would select certain word choices we disliked, but we truly hated every word, including mere articles, prepositions, and conjunctions.
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1347 21 18
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Millie was a good woman, Bobby said. A good Christian woman. Well, I said, you can’t hold that against her.
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Mama's good at finding things, but hardly ever what she's looking for.
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It's that quiet comfortable darkness. One should feel it often and necessarily.
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1460 21 17
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There is a tall and leafy tree in our backyard. Also a bride, a groom, and a chicken.
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1707 22 15
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She leaned up on an elbow, smirked and touched his leg. “Want to do it?”
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1833 25 15
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Do you suppose you could make your female protagonist a salamander rather than a human?
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