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When LuAnn turned eleven, she hit the wall. “Eleven’s when it happens,” LuAnn says to the stylist teasing Amber’s hair into a high, shimmering web.
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"A little knowledge truly is a dangerous thing."
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5032
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The black eye is from an accident at the driving range; that’s what I tell everyone. I had set the tee too high for the club, knocked it right out from underneath the ball. The ball shot straight up in the air and clocked me right in the eye.
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I was gutting mackerel when they came for me, my fingers dipping in and out of rainbow'd bellies, trailing pink as I cried for dad, and island life carried on. My mother, proper in mourning black, stuffed me under a pile of nets when she heard them riding…
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2011
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She dreams he is coming home. A flicker of light upon a spine, he is floating toward her over food courts and luggage carousels, through time zones pocked with stoplights and the bulge of alternate lives. They never travel together -- like the royals, they say.…
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I've heard it said that nothing lasts forever. But when I heard this, no one could have made me believe that nothing referred to my Helen. For it was just this morning that I watched her step quite happily onto our porch, and blow me her goodbye kiss, as
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The woman worked her way around the table in mechanical fashion, quickly, but exactingly. It was a sight to behold. Lovely had nothing to compare it to in her own experience. Things at Lovely's home were casual. They didn't own cloth napkins, or wine glasses. The silverware…
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Jimmy Gollihue awoke to the howling of a bloodhound, a long voice from up the mountain, and the baying of the dog pulled a keening lament from his dream of the highway.
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He wanted me to learn the business, to become the son he always wanted but never had. I eagerly complied.
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102001
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The Devil’s laugh was the screech of wind. Ignacio Carillo heard Him as he dug the grave that would hold the body of his beloved wife.
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64953
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I'm sure this sort of thing happens all the time.
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29900
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Q: How do you explain immaculate conception?
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9700
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When she looked up, sure as Christmas, the bus was coming toward them. It was big and yellow, and it squeaked to a stop right at the end of the walk.
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It was a Monday, about 6:00 P.M. and Superman was in his Metropolis apartment. He had just changed into his pajamas and was unpacking his Chinese takeout when he was consumed by an immense explosion.
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My father seems anxious about my gender orientation. I grew up looking like a boy, acting like a boy. He bought dresses and girly stuff for me but he avoided making an issue of it until recently.
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