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His wife left behind a mini-muffin tin, a cookie sheet and a gaudy, scratched green metal tray decorated with an artist’s renderings of New Hampshire tourist spots.
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The bathing suits are like Christmas dresses.
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“The past is not dead. In fact, it is not even past.” I heard this once. I don’t know who wrote it, or said it, but boy, do I believe it now! You were obviously burned into my brain so deep there was no erasing it. Not that I would have missed you for a
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First of all, you should know an unstoppable fire made my panties roar for you. Maybe you will come to understand what effect you had on my life, my whole life, I mean. You should know the effect you had on people. Me, and Sharon too, both. And I’m sure
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He wanted to see at least one creature lead a perfect life. In his old age he began keeping mayflies as pets.
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It's the dreamy air that will send you off to your death
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Well I, for one, knew immediately what these great muffled sobs were coming from the parking lot behind our apartment complex. This stud named Clint was dumping one of his girlfriends, again. Exactly how many were there? Could have been a dozen, for all
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He'd call me Farrah to get a rise.
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Fear of snakes? That’s just one problem, among others. You learn not to care about snakes so much, when in fact there is plenty we can learn from them. How to slither. How to touch the air with our star tongues glistening and get a sense of the other si
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My grandmother’s childhood was floating away on a boat. The moment she looked back at her brother on the shore, a bony figure waving goodbye in frantic pantomimes of love, she knew her fate was sealed. There would be no going back.
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You were never at all like Narcissus, trying to remember girls’ names with marble in their eyes. You never adored your own image, looking at yourself in the river, not like I did (looking in the mirror that brings sleep.) I remember you admiring the dre
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I paced far away, watching Matilda fill Miranda in on the Jack and Coke gaps of the night I almost took us apart.
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The earth still feels young with internal warmth to me, and her long slender gardens. I know what I was able to feel inside. The pieces of nature that nature believed was a tree, a field, a road, even while you were inside me. But the chemical energy of
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“Even a man who should have more sense and tends his stocks just right, becomes a fool when the sugarbane blooms, buys high, sells low all night.”
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Then you came home from your travels and stole her, your new queen, though she was ready. And raped my heart as you entered the new passage to heaven. And I cried out your name on the river, and swam in the warm waters behind you, naming your new name a
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