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I think I’m the best Marilyn Monroe there ever was.
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Mom was a crazy spiritual type...
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She refuses to let her eyes cry. Her eyes played tricks on her and showed her one thing was really another. They don't deserve to cry.
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I jumped in the cab and headed to the airport. My flight to LA was in an hour. As I headed for the door, a mad dash really, I knocked over a tabletop sculpture of Dante that a friend bought for my wife and I in Florence the year before.…
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He says, he’s going away next week. I can’t go; the kids are still in school. It’s just a few days. [166 words]
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We stare past each other. I have my electronic friends. He has his televised beliefs. [163 words]
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Mr. Lowell knelt down and put his face in his hands, his knees quickly covered in blood. Sobs.
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Terry worked in a factory out in Northlake where she added a little squirt of milk and another little squirt of cream to those tiny half-and-half coffee creamers you find at every motel in the country. The owner of that factory hired only women to work
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Dandelions wither as I approach and the grass dies under my feet.
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I want to read a story that ends unhappily ever after: one where the bad guy wins and no one gets the girl.
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... strange pipes making music like the sounds that would drift through the doors of purgatory.
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Through its branches we saw a couple. Teenagers, narrow and pale, two young birch trees, their roots twisted, submerged in the water.
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"Did you want that with the shrimp or the chicken?" the waitress asked. "Uh, shrimp is fine" the old man replied. "I'll be right back with some more bread" the waitress plasters a fake smile on as she walks away. 'What the hell am I doing. I've got a BS i
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Scientists say that if humans just splashed sex hormones into each others faces, we’d heal and live like animals again.
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An excellent plan. Just like old times.
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