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It was when the party hit a lull and a woman wearing too much rouge was going on about her parakeets that Tom decided to set down his bourbon glass and pull out his gun.
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A drama. Teeth on the throat.
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My mother pulled me aside and observed that I was more cheerful than in years past — even my grandmother had noticed it — but she hadn't caught me stealing off to the pint of Tennessee whiskey I had stashed in the study. Probably because she was…
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While the tea was steeping, Ms. Darcy unwrapped the package. The book was lovely. It had nice heavy paper and the print was a good size for reading. The cover was glossy and not too showy, and Ms. Darcy thought it would look just right on her shelf.
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So, dear world, whose dearness I have never truly known, I bid you adieu.
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And she tried to laugh, to justify her half evasion, to dismiss the memory of their vitriolic breakfast conversation.
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In winter The Woods sleeps and the Woodsman comes. He collects the dead wood and makes coal. He nurses the injured animals and prepares the dying. He distributes the snow and regulates the temperature. In his fur hat…
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The bay window where she sat in the morning and wrote. The herb garden she had planted one summer outside the kitchen window. The landing where she had lain, viciously twisted, for two hours before he came home from the office and found her.
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Why is the ghost of John Lennon haunting a house in rural Oregon?
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When he woke he carried the body of a cat instead of a man. Next to him his cat dreamed it had a human body.
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We brought flowers for our dead lovers
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“Are we going to move him? I don’t think we should move him. What if he’s got a broken neck or something, and moving him makes him paralyzed? I’ve heard of that happening.”
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You are an idiot when you do not speak the language in rivers.
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My sister... ended up dancing naked in a topless bar called Tit for Tat on the ass end of a small but bloated town called Liberty.
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It was with the departure of their last child that the Beazleys became grotesquely petty with each other.
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