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It’s good to get perfect in the rain.
It’s good to get perfect in the back seat of a power boat on a river in the hot summer air with the mosquitos sucking the life out of you.
It’s good to get perfect with your bare back rubbing up against the rough
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A man came across the hall to talk to us. He was buying some paintings. He had a white deer on a leash. Fosca (our Malamute) said: “That's a vicious deer.” She kept putting her paw on its shoulder. …
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Emma and I were in a shabby part of town with vacant lots and overgrown yards, and I wondered if something would happen as we loped beside Tom, who was slow-witted and 21. We were 13 . . .
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If I wanted cautious I wouldn't be in her bed. She would only sleep with her husband. Adultery is not for pussies. So I dive back into the conversation which has made my dick limp and ask where I'm wrong in our post-coital chatter and she says it doesn't
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I underline the passages Momma does in her Bible and circle the same words she does, of the oil Samuel uses to anoint David...
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The cell phone rang in his pants pocket on the floor beside the bed. He reached inside the pocket and answered, even as he was hip deep inside his wife. It was Jim, their electrician. “I was wondering if I could swing by and pick up those ballasts and the
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His name was Gino. I’ll leave out the last name, not that I think it matters anymore. He came into my dad’s gas station on the near North side of Chicago to have work done on his fancy car. I was still a teenager. I accidentally opened the glove compartme
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“I take him to see all those sexy movies,” she said, “because it puts the passion back in him. I love what he does to me when we get back home after those movies.”
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Maybe God couldn’t find His bifocals, and that’s why my check for ten million hasn’t shown up yet. Maybe a stray dog in heaven ate my check. Maybe God went bankrupt like everyone else. Okay, so maybe at the end of life I’ll balance my checkbook.
I do
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"Yeah, well, you weren't the first,
not the first time I cheated on my husband.
We cheated on each other, plenty of times.
So, don't get a swelled head over it."
That's what she said.
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"It was one kiss. No tongue. What does that even mean?" Lindley tried to see Leah as any other patient, "What do you want it to mean?" "I don't know," Leah whined, tears welling, "something, maybe. You know I hate surprises." Her sister was not another…
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The inhabitants of the surrounding neighborhood steered clear of the Lot, mindful of its existence, its countless drags of scrap, drenched with the fused association of many scenes and emotions from memory and experience. Left to its own devices, the place is now…
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Between the commercials, the local news is rampant with fusillade of bullets going raving mad, driven by some Machiavellian brainfuck, or bombshells smiling down with angels in black; emoticons of solid metal and pride. But you would put your faith in…
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I mentally sing '70s sitcom theme songs because it's impossible to be afraid while humming Welcome Back, Kotter.
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