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Some books are like old friends and when you read them, you no longer feel alone.
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She wakes up sad. She can't shit. She spreads out the foil. no creases. folds it in half. She puts the stuff in the crease. holds a lighter under it. A zippo. then smokes it. Well smokes the smoke. It's like kissing god or the…
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Naked, we stood in my shower. When she kicked my tool, I noticed she had a toe ring.
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"My body annoys me. It distracts me from myself with its constant needs, never fulfilled. I feed it like a stray cat that’s been there too long."
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The bearded old man, raised his weary body from the bedroll he had slept on last night and slowly stood up. Bones creaked as he worked the stiffness out of his joints, the pain and memory of endless days and nights riding the…
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I’m nowhere near as clever as George Saunders. You might be here looking for something else, something more profound or even biting satire or absurdism but, nope, just me in a cave.
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A universe of knowledge, soon all lost, thrown out with the orange peels.
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I’m sorry. We couldn’t fix the country
and left her a bigger mess than we found her
Oil leaking from her shores
earthquake batter all over her skin
We couldn’t fix her, and we’re sorry
You’ll find her wreck in tatters
at the bus st
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My wife stood in the doorway and talked to the back of my head. “You really should talk to somebody about this,” she said.
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...what will happen to me buying drugs on the street, at night...?
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Whenever I asked Beth, what if Star Wars was real somewhere, she’d reply, the Empire’s dead, babe.
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"Which way ought we to go from here," he asked.
She smiled again, "that all depends on where we want to get to." He nodded but didn't laugh so she sighed and strolled around the room, tuning and looking and considering her options.
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"He doesn't have a parish," I said. "He works in a hospital in the East Bay. He told me that if I were in that hospital and I woke up and saw him, I was in big trouble."
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But I’m worn out, I tell you. Feel like one of them dogs you see walking the highway edge, tongue down to its knees.
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