225 12 8
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I hear voices through the open window at night which sound like, but are not, the voices of people I know.
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215 9 3
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The most she'll see of daylight is a pair of white eyes through the tilted blinds.
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182 5 1
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There were the first months, when it didn't happen at all for Jerry. He felt some shyness and embarrassment, but in Dot's mind the joy was too great and this meant good things.
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1187 0 0
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Why did he seek punishment, if he felt no guilt? Why this empty conscious, though he had done such evil?
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124 9 4
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The heart as a symbol, the heart as a target for the diapered cherub's arrows, is hilarious.
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1360 2 2
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Had I said something before, she might could have saved a little face by telling me to go to hell before we tumbled into the covers. All right. Again, I was no gentleman. Send me to hell. Whatever. I lay there on my back, my arm around her, and listened t
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2697 14 8
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We aren't designed for darkness. Something deep inside of us, something much older and deeper than us is telling us to move away, get to warm, because if we don’t, come winter we will die.
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1831 0 0
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Cheater was a Goblin. He carried a long knife, not quite a sword, but more than your average pocket blade.
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3088 5 5
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"A little knowledge truly is a dangerous thing."
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56 0 0
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‘I thought we would get to know each other in the sauna.' What a clichéd schoolboy fantasy to hear those words. And from a sexy older woman. But they were said to me under circumstances that gave me no schoolboy thrill. My girlfriend's mother said this to me. In front of my…
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831 3 3
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I've heard it said that nothing lasts forever. But when I heard this, no one could have made me believe that nothing referred to my Helen. For it was just this morning that I watched her step quite happily onto our porch, and blow me her goodbye kiss, as
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151 5 5
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And for a moment you stop and you let the men get into their cars and drive away and the new guy is pulling your short skirt down in back, back over the tops of your thigh hi’s which you didn’t hardly even notice were showing and could really care less ab
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35 0 0
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She might scrounge up
some self-worth for breakfast,
scramble it with cheddar
and enough salt
to make a mermaid weep.
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40 0 0
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Heavy breath, Spandex, Nike— pass me in your labors; You nod and smile; Perspiration— I almost feel your clammy hands; Your toes touch mine, hot and…
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114 6 5
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