2033 20 9
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“Your mother has problems,” he told the kids.
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1597 14 10
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She wouldn't have been the first.
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1330 12 11
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Wanna,wanna, whoop de loop. Hold my baby, kiss my mom, dance the way I used to do. Desktops, blacktops, cut and paste, speed down hills, learn the rules, Sister Saint Marion, married to Christ. Sixteen, life-green, pink tights, Swan Lake, an…
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1436 21 9
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1778 12 11
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The other day I’m in the backyard with one of my kids, doing what he’s calling a training exercise, which is basically the two of us with flashlights, shinning the beams over the grass and up into the night to see what we can see.
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1617 20 9
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Leaves dance their way down,unfazed by this September heat. Bus stop routines set already-summer ended years ago.A chipmunk scampers undera parked truck while once againthe young man does his morning…
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1986 26 9
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So they told him he better get ready to join the army because that’s where it was at, for him. After all, not everybody could split coconuts with their hands.
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1934 10 11
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We're each other's inside out. (100 words)
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1138 19 10
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got the space heater going in the desert
got a lot of space out there somewhere
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1438 13 11
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In the cool, damp morning, Jeremiah trembled, from the weight of the gun, from fear he would miss.
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1593 13 10
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I need a different storage solution
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1405 9 10
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it's time for the cold, antiseptic
cloth to briskly remove the evidence.
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1433 11 11
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Vera Wang I saw you on Oprah today girl. Oh no no no.
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1563 13 10
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I bought some charlatan art / and hung it on the wall
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970 19 9
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it is said to make your manliness last forever
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1142 9 8
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This is what happens when a writer falls in love...
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1123 13 10
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I realize that to say, "I do not believe in God" is footsteps away from "I do not rely on God" and "God left me."
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1368 12 11
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I'm in Joel's front yard when I dodge the third call from my divorce lawyer. I'm here for Joel; I can't seem to show up anywhere unless it's for someone else. We watch his son, Andy, push his bike up the hill. This is the…
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1447 10 9
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Now comfy is as comfy does, but when sleeping strange, please accept a wide range of cradle, crib, cave.
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1498 15 10
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that guy/ MOSTLY understood / endings
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1534 4 4
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It’s nice, but, it’s weird not being in love, or maybe in love, sometimes in love.
(Or, not in love. Frankly, we might be not in love.)
Or, both of us might be. Or, only one of us might be.
(Good lord, I hope it’s never me.)
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1769 6 3
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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.
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1233 15 9
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They were discussing reincarnation,
what animals they would come back as.
"I'd be a vole," Cranshaw said. Is a vole
even an animal? Connie asked.
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2121 13 11
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Plastic Jesus wears a crown of thorns. I gesture and say: Does that hurt? He says: What do you mean? so I point at his forehead and his hand goes to it and he says O that
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2212 15 9
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Listen to me, at the end of all things, and I will tell you her story.
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1605 5 5
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“Dear, baby, what do you fear?”
Or maybe it was, “Now here are the keys to the lock.”
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772 10 10
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He steered to the roadside and answered her question before she could ask.
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1385 12 11
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The cataclysm of all those photons/
mad to be a part of you
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2084 25 6
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He inhaled all these sensory impulses like they were so much illuminated, fluorescent pollen which jostled for space with the strong aroma of coffee in his nostrils.
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1671 12 11
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I knew my mother would die by the weekend
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