Stories tagged love

Abstinence

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Walking To Gibraltar, Chapter 16: In Which Frank Learns Six Lessons

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He can't breathe can't breathe can't breathe turns the handle can't breathe falls onto the front porch gasping in the cold night air. And Dad is lying on the smoldering carpet in the parlor. And all the kids are upstairs. And he swallows the air. And ever

If Hell...

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the sour waft of a secret

Frida with Monkey, 1940

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It has scent, your heat, of jonquils and lime, of spices seared in a hot black pan.

Black as a Crows Wing

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Setting priorities is important, but there is a cost, sometimes a great cost.

A Sight for Sore Thighs

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You kissed me, and my heart stopped beating – it didn’t need to any more. I had your heart to beat for both of us.

No More I Love You's

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I liked it better before, left up to me.

John & Jackie

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By the time I learned how much I loved my family, I was 3 years and eight-hundred miles away from them

Attention, Stargazers

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And in the end we're crouched over like children / sifting through this tide-pool

Empty Pockets

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Empty Pockets

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We dance on rooftop, then I fall off.You're like, "oh shit."Pale blue lobster finds me. Says, "hello." Taps me with claw, "wake up." Looks around, concerned. Shakes me with two claws on collar.Scuttles away for a second.Comes back with warm, perfect, round glazed doughnut.…

Icicles in California

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Jake is four years older than I am, and while back in high school it seemed like a wide chasm yawned between us, as we've grown older the distance has gradually shrank and shrank, until I returned home for winter break and found it was merely a thin trace

Dolly's Exciting Husband

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Dolly did not need medication or Bible study. She loved and enjoyed her husband. She hoped she would die first.

What I wanted in 1981

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i stained his hockey sheets right over the red wings

Bye-bye Love

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Barbie wore only her clear pink heels...