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I found the knife in a fishing box in the closet. The box was made out of varnished wood. My father’s father had made it.
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He now knew the impossible to be possible.
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"Your mother does sailors," the parrot screeched.
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Sunday morning beginning with a bang. Accused, found wanting, sentenced.
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His father whistles The Torreador's Song in the kitchen; Mirko smells bacon.
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Three times, Dad, you died on the table...
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Sixteen magpies patrolled the patch of grass behind the house, splitting the soil with their shiny beaks and siphoning earthworms from the wet earth. Your blood and bile suctioned into waste receptacles, your sallow skin pitted and bluing as the sun made
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Don’t forget, I’ve watched the evil you’ve done to the lawn for years, not to mention the chaos you’ve made of the woodshed. Don’t you remember me showing you how to properly stack the wood?
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Forty-five minutes ago Gennady had been flying through the air, too, and not in any figurative sense.
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A man strolled by with perfect posture and a masterful comb-over. Bud gave me that 'get him' expression; sitting there with his own low side part. We razzed him about it all the time, but he still looked pretty-damn-good for seventy-five.
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I have never known this man. / He is not who he is.
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Even though my father died when my children were young, they know exactly who their Grandpa is.
He is the me I swore never to be.
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Two days before Christmas 1946, my mother put me on an Illinois Central railroad train at the whistle stop of Neoga, Illinois.
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Fall wildfire follows with leaves burning like embers of red, yellow, auburn and brown. She loved the view. Lisa Hill requested main floor access for her doctor, medical staff, and finally hospice where it seemed an appropriate choice for comfort and ca
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my father has a phobia of dentists./ he also once felt/ that if the house ran out of toilet paper/ he would lose his job.
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