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Simon Ridley only had one special power. Whenever he walked into a room, an awkward silence would descend.
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“Sometimes when I feel the urge to create, I don’t know whether to grab my paints, my camera, my guitar or my pen.”
“You could have sex,” her friend, sitting in the desk next to hers, joked.
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It was like the time we broke icicles dripping from the low eaves and brandished them like swords...
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I try to slot into order the sequence of events: the book deal that appeared and then winked away like a dying star, the white gloves and the brick through Waterstone's window; my novel lying in the shop front in a bed of glass.
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Walter met Danial at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. They didn't have much in common at first, other than AA, with Walter on the recovery side of treatment and Danial reluctantly just beginning.
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Grady Quail wondered why God didn't just have another son
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“still watersrun deep” is not my portionborn to make waves Formed from the ocean
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the mountains did change/became looming purplish waves/their spray washes us/we rinse slow 'neath lifted waves/that must be at least this tall.
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"Sometimes things just don’t go as planned. It doesn’t mean anyone is to blame - It just is."
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The Syringimals were filled to their 60 ml capacity with a gelatinous ocher blood. They fluttered around using sparkly wings stolen from Disney fairies, and attempted language through wax lips that were usually secured with scotch tape.
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The time has come
to scrape the wax from my menorah.
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He chose her for the way she could, Eyes closed, nose to the air, Find her way North. North was where the wind stopped And held them in its grip, safe. Broken. He chose her for the way, fur against Her collar, she could coax seal…
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In that mix of sports and religion, TV was what there was of virtue. I thought bars were nicer.
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My mother told me I came out of her screaming and didn’t stop for two years. After that I took up rocking.
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the bodies of the poor become/
a simple logistical problem,/
disposable as any gnawed bones
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Everything is illuminated. If anyone is watching, we look happy.
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the honesty of bodies & the lies hidden under skin.
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I have become interested in Carracci / Ludovico Carracci
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Based on length it looked like a note, lacking the deeper illustration found in full-fledged letters, but also missing were condolences and considering the subject, such sympathies might have seemed appropriate: Dear Mr. and Mrs. Madison, Katie is
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We all got married — Suzanne, and Virginia, and I — and it was all we ever wanted to be at the time.
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I didn’t give her enough skin. The world will always hurt her.
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My server wore cat's eye glasses, a Wonderbra that made her breasts like the embryos from Alien wanting to burst their way out of her Hooters t-shirt but couldn't.
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for Melissa together today. I like that feeling. I want to pound a piano into the ground just for you. To your warmest heartbeat I raise my glass. Thank you. It doesn't really matter if they think that's a velvety Elvis…
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For years, Nina lived in an apartment with furniture that was silver or clear or metallic, she could see her reflection in every surface. She had an enormous television that took up one entire wall of the small living room. She and Anna and Desmond, Nina's downstairs …
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The bank bought out the miles of land behind our property.
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Joaquin Phoenix has inspired me to quit writing and purse my true lifelong passion.
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"It's hard to make a man understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding it."--Upton Sinclair I understand what Zappa was saying,about broken hearts and assholes, but, well, reallywhat if yours is already broken and already…
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