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He does not read what he’s giving them permission to do to him, just signs the release.
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I once dreamed of taking a trip to Northumbria with a lover and reading the poem together on the fells.
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We’re all competitive and drunk.
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What the five-year-old I baby sit for wanted to do yesterday was torture his Barbies. “Why would you want to do that?” I asked.“Because we're bad guys!” said Hanina. “Can't we be good guys?”“Not today. Today we're bad…
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RE: The big stuff: We don’t know
RE: The small stuff:
Half of what you believe is true
but you will never know which half
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Miracles don’t happen to the poor.
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I Tinseled nebulae scatter, couples dance the dance of meridians, as seekers of that dream that does not seek; but so are we, but sense everything shall become antique, that the tragic is everything. Reverent this loneliness. Giving…
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In moving crowds I plan to break you.
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As part of an online writers ”interview” series, I decided to deviate a little from the norm and do my first interview with our housecat, while I await my first ever conversation with an actual human.
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Gossamer wisps bloom in the barren air.
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November 24th-- Subject began to chew the flesh of his forearms. Researchers considered interfering but decided against it because subject was only bleeding slightly.
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She eventually learned everyone had their own truth, and some of them were not true at all.
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She wasn't even trying to live.
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In the blue of the yard the twins boil and scrape,
twisting about beneath the sycamore tree.
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I look at that wall, it has piss-stain yellow paint and water scars from several years of leaky pipes. I say I wouldn’t mind that, if he took out some of that wall.
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On our back porch, the tiki torches are lit and so am I.
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I call beauty to me
With the architecture
Of this place
Beauty that has no doubt
Been pulled to me
All its life
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I built the fence myself, strong and high and aesthetically pleasing. It was high enough to provide privacy on both sides, but from my bedroom balcony I could see everything. More than I wanted to see.
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I’ve previously tried the old-fashioned route to get my books reviewed, calling up editors, asking friends who work at newspapers and magazines to put in a good word for me, stalking . . . I mean, contacting freelancers.
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Airports are always a casino, said Oriana
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The poppers, the Viagra, the chorizo – all had been ordered and all had arrived.
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One hand holds the string-like railing; the other holds a bright silver toaster.
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st. paul is steeped in fog.
mist and rain make the north side a grainy
faded photograph, almost timeless.
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Her nervous toes danced under the table. She thought, on this dismal day in South West London, the time had come to confess her state of tangled affairs.
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Francesco entered the gallery, and he immediately went to work.
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I want to own you, even if it is only for a few moments or a few hours, but it will not be worth it unless for that brief span of time I know that the only purpose of your existence is to be a woman whom I own.
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"...does the nurse, doctor or veterinarian experience greater sexual satisfaction than say the housewife in DesMoines or the sixth grade English teacher in Passaic?"
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