1951 51 27
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The night my mother dies we'd watched Solaris at the Quad Cinemas Afterward Hauser and I videotape each other, ask probing questions like where do you go when you die, and what is God, and who are you now? …
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1555 65 24
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The second thing Annie Riser did after receiving her diagnosis was to find a realtor in the Yellow Pages and put her house up for sale.
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2272 29 19
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2359 39 26
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I lie here sleepless and wait for the moment when I will touch...
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1641 15 11
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For one glittering moment
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1712 20 19
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if we stare into the dark long
enough, we see ourselves at some end or
beginning –
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4306 39 21
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The streets have terrible breath, it’s said, and everyone hides but the young, who have slick, naked shoulders and fragrant tobacco shreds in the linings of their empty pockets.
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2199 29 26
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I walk by the hotel where Esenin hanged himself.
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4006 15 14
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Water and its damages followed Bianca. Every time she looked up. Everywhere she looked up. Up up up up. Water stains, in darkening whorls, curling across the drywall or fiberglass panels, filling them with rot and mold.
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1164 40 24
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What used to be a scene has broken into fragments and blips of her on a screen I can’t control or manipulate.
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2231 28 27
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Acts have no meaning, but they do have / trajectory
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2616 32 22
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So, have your whiskey like a good son.
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2348 22 20
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We were always thrilled that the moon worked the night shift. In high school, often bored with the two drive-in movies, we'd sometimes go to tent revivals on our dates and get healed or get saved depending upon what that “tent-housed”…
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2670 37 21
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A cartoon of my personal insight to publishing as I know it.
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1680 36 26
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I watch my mother and my daughter, each wondering in her own quiet way about where this story will go next.
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1901 15 15
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What happens in heaven stays in heaven.
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1684 38 23
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The last time he saw his psychic, she told him you're gonna die within six months.
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2436 33 18
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I didn't notice or care that I was stripped down to just high heels, that he had placed a mirror next to the bed. I just wondered who we were looking at.
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1618 43 22
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At first when she walked in, I thought she looked like a wet dog. Then after a minute, I’m trying to wrap my mind around how perfect she is.
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2135 28 20
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I popped open the wine
with a Nike shoelace, a trick I learned on the internet
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2055 43 24
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The field opens up to us like something born.
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1853 25 14
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... tomatoes swelling and turning pink...
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1998 33 20
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Somehow, random phrases and sentences from the stories, comments and profile pages were generated as “replies”.
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2430 51 20
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I have, for example, watched Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" 117 times.
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1939 48 22
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When the snow reached the windowsills I was no longer a virgin.
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2341 25 19
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We were the same and different. I was wild, wild, and she was calm. A pair of dolls we were. Holding hands in thin white dresses. Running through fields. Spying on boys. Making small things from grass and weed and wildflower. One day (it was a Tuesday) al
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1998 52 24
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2326 25 14
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not enough of us / destroy / what we create
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3425 9 8
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When my husband died, I was in bed with his brother.
Ricky and I had been married six years, three months and two days when his little brother, Ben, and I gave in to the lust that just would not go away in spite of our prayers and tears.
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1944 18 14
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From the way she scooped him from his buggy, shushed him, kissed his tears and hugged him...
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