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My predecessor warned me. I know it’s only been 64 years but enough’s enough. #27 only lasted for 18 minutes so I did better than that.
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40103
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Write about when dad hurled his bowling balls down a real city alley after a night of disgust.
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#whateverhappenedto #beforesex #whateverhappenedto #duringsex #whateverhappenedto #aftersex #nevertrust[written in August 2009]
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55159
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We were suckers for strays, the big baby eyes of kittens. We also had lemons for cars, bought encyclopedias from door-to-door salesmen.
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We watched the flames, screaming demons eating oxygen.
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The heck with lists, she said. Just live.
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3582
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We know the band. At first, they point and wave, but then they ignore us. We get rowdy and stumble. We get tossed.
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3042
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Muffled tears. The splatter of tossed strawberries.
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This woman sits next to me, tells me things about myself she shouldn’t know. My name, the hospital where I was born, the time I almost walked onto the highway.
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3674
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If gravity were gone, she said, the world would be a better place.
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We drove down a road of Victorian homes, the path lined with trees covered in glistening ice. We marveled at the scene—toy village of winter, street lights reflecting off the frozen trees revealing pinpoints like faraway stars.
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You can't excerpt an 18-word work.
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2643
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The palm reader refused to read his palm.
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“Shweetheart, my childhood was like a candlelit dinner for two at Chuck E. Cheese’s—great promise surrounded by absurdity.”
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