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Last night it had also seemed like a good idea to meet him for lunch the next day, but that morning she had misgivings. And now, in her dim corner, she wanted very much for him to go away.
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A wooden sign hung over the entrance. On a slab of redwood somebody had carefully carved the words, God Could and Would, if He Were Sought.
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It rained forty days and forty nights that month. It rained so hard that water flooded the streets.
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All the attractive women in the building had secrets. He wanted to know their secrets, but they wouldn't say.
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1900
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We gathered in the church basement to hear what the good ladies of the WCTU had to say about liquor.
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There are worse things than getting your ass kicked by a 12 year old Puerto Rican kid. This was exactly my thinking as he stood over me, his pre-pubescent screams sounding like a baby Bruce Lee, preparing to finish me off.
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My friend says there's some kind of bug that bites its mate's head off after they have sex. I ask him which one gets decapitated, the male or the female. The male, he says. I tell him that figures. He nods. I ask him how he is…
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From time to time the teacher would sit alone in his office & look out the window & pine for the fjords. How shy and awkward she had been the first time....
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When Uncle Dan got sent to the Alzheimer's ward, the ladies licked their lips. Fresh meat.
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The way that worked was you gave the bartender a buck, and he would write your name on a square on a calendar that was behind the bar. If somebody jumped off the bridge that day, you won the pot.
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Enough with the bitter pills and pregnant conversations all in a row.
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"What happened to you?" Carlos asks. Jake says he cut himself shaving.
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We were gathered to pay our respects to Mrs. Scott, my mother's aunt. Her body was in a room just off the parlor.
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Twenty-two sugars ripped side to side, crystal treasures mostly emptied;
white gift wrap littering the table.
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That evening I sat and watched the sunset. The color of the water changed from blue to black. The sky turned from pink to a star-spangled ebony. There was no moon.
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