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Once into the apartment’s main room, he flicked on the light switch. Nothing was as he remembered it from the morning.
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In the grey light of a chilly morning after a hot breakfast of eggs and ham, she brought him a gift, a wool sweater, grey as the dawn and knit with vertical lines in a faux heavy weave. He laughed and pulled it on; a thing possessed with his life, then, as skin…
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It scraped at Paul’s brain like a cat’s claw at the door. He hadn’t heard the song in years. Was that the Searchers? The Seekers?
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People ask me sometimes what it’s like to meet your wife when you’re six years old, and I have to admit now that I don’t really understand the question. Marla and I, we were just friends for most of that time. She made me laugh. I let her crib off my math
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Your grandmother has gotten old, in that way where one day you wake up, and you realize that someone you've been looking at your whole life suddenly looks different. That hands which used to gently place band-aids on scraped knees are…
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I would roll my eyes, give one word replies or a smiley face.
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I dared to dream whether she was coming or was she going
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Baseball diamond. Cut diamond. In my hands, I can feel the way the pieces shiver and slice into my skin. The cut of the diamond; the cut in between finger and thumb.
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“Wait, so you’re Burt Lancaster? You’re not tall enough to be Burt Lancaster.” I popped a hand over my mouth. Wine as truth serum would do me no favors.
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‘Do you know that tables aren’t actually solid’ he said suddenly. ‘I mean there’s loads of space in the molecules that make up wood or whatever. The only reason we can’t push through them is because of the force.’
Nearby the Android called up his light
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My great great great great great grand children like to visit to look down on earth and imagine that confusing time between stone age and space age, when we licked rocket pops, drank hot tea, and used our throats to speak.
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During the winter, some of the fellows went to a rink to ice skate, and one time Good Blindy went with them. His friends got Fred outfitted with a pair of rented skates and turned him loose on the ice.
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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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The black eye is from an accident at the driving range; that’s what I tell everyone. I had set the tee too high for the club, knocked it right out from underneath the ball. The ball shot straight up in the air and clocked me right in the eye.
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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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