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That day I was going to write a story about glass but instead stopped and listened
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Getting the beer was easy enough
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That was how it was, each day new and yet the same, finite and never-ending.
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With the pernickety finesse of an ageing cat; she waits for the bus to go, then circles the bus stop before prising down one of the seats with a cautious finger. Only when she is sure it is clean will she sit.
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The car inching along, she repeated, bread, milk, cake, over and over, so not to forget.
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Called to birth a child, the doctor now sat slumped in the corner because the mother had been shot in the head.
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...children live in the moment like no one else. Which is a good lesson for us all, especially when crossing an ocean. Because out here you are alone with the rhythm of your thoughts and the ghosts of your past.
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The possibility for numerous outcomes – the possibility of anything, really – lives on the writer’s page.
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the Coke made his butt leak blood
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parted her hair to kiss the back of her neck
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Another noise, softer than the first: swish, thud. You are still. The house is very loud tonight.
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Jake goes back inside, turns on the TV, and sits down. It is the end of the world! A lane of the Bay Bridge has fallen into the bay. A building downtown has lost its skin.
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That was why his face looked like a mole's face - the kind of face I could love and the only kind of face that I could talk to.
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...was discovered today hanging from a shower outlet in his bathroom...
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