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He trembled as she splayed open his palm...
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We made our escape on grimy streets under skies filled with crows, flapping like litter in the wind.
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I don’t know how some can do it. Can they just walk off the animal in the yard or something, and forget about love altogether? Some have that built-in coldness of the soul, I guess. I don’t get it. The blood does not seem to shake their hearts. Are th
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It’s a documentary filmed by aliens from the Andromeda Galaxy, he says, an inscription for a future plaque, his face framed in metal framed goggles, his eyes hidden behind black hole lenses.
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The postcard cuts through the night between now and where you used to be—a hallucination of movement, of words, of your face glistening in anticipation, dark eyes and red lips looking up at me, between vast silent echoes and the trembling of an invisible
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I got a rash under my wedding ring. I took the ring off and filed for divorce the next day. Mike begged me to stay. But when you can't trust your judgement, you have to trust the signs. Mommy had a rash like that. I used to see it in the shower. People think it's…
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Let us say this is something he cannot put into his story, something he does not know how to express, let us say it makes him pause, fills him with a sense of wonder. That the moon now is not the moon of before.
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3865
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This locked ward is not the oblivion you sought.
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to be or not to be, that is the question, marriage is at stake in this little tome
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I see young girls in their white summer dresses and remember how I was like that, light youth that barely touched the ground. Screwing and unscrewing the lid of a salt shaker (sitting at a table.) Swinging a shoe off the tip of my toes. Rubbing a foot u
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300
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The last twenty years he’d been chasing his double. This imposter always just out of reach. Checking out of a hotel as he was checking in.
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We met an old friend and his old dog. We went off leash on the lush Buffalo grass. He and I—this old friend, I mean—talked mostly of divorce, something we shared between us.
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She was mercurial, fascinating, brilliant, beautiful, joyous, sad, unpredictable, sensitive, cruel … the usual.
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Griffin talked to his actress, said, consider you’re freezing to death, this is the endgame of torrid forbidden love.
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Could have been different.
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