1587 21 17
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There is a tall and leafy tree in our backyard. Also a bride, a groom, and a chicken.
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1470 6 6
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There were avocados splayed across menus like 1950′s pinup girls–all thigh and curve. Avocados in California omelets. Avocados split and diced, sprayed with lime, slapped on bagels, served with tomato.
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1202 1 1
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We brought flowers for our dead lovers
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1536 19 17
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Jake remembers that Amy told him once that she thought that somehow he would always be a part of her life. That was before she went to Spain and married an American bull fighter.
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114 10 8
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Here I am, my raging clitoris on parade.
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359 20 19
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He'd always envied the number four with its symmetry and its squatty complaisance.
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1622 27 12
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Borges must be so proud somewhere
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1804 10 9
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We were young, she said, it was all in front of us. We should never have settled for this.
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2233 28 21
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The night she left she claimed she fucked Bukowski.
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754 2 1
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Always after opening his beer, my grandfather would place the bottle cap between his thumb and forefinger and bend it in half.
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278 28 14
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Somewhere amongst the jagged greenery of Auchterarder lies a bottle of my childhood. It hides intact, leaves rotting beneath. Maybe shrews have scrabbled its narrowed neck and birds pecked its silver lid, hoping for the tender fruits inside.There must be alcohol now. I…
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1557 0 0
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Staring at her horribly disfigured face, I envied her.
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67 6 2
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My god, will it ever end? Not if you don't want it to.
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1138 0 0
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When He had built the Universe, there was no greater joy in putting it together. The angels themselves were perfect constructs of concept and design, embodiment of breathing principle over particle waves. They each had their purpose; each mortar or a supp
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73 15 3
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Sometimes the potatoes fall out.
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