Stories
Classics
He got his wife off a German farmer, for whom he went to work one day.
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Ira and Ada are stepsiblings. Within a month they were sleeping together.
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She had instinct for seeing what she could make happen.
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“Then I can promise to kill either of you if I ever see you again.”
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What was happening? All she wants is for Teddy to fuck her silly.
Fiction
“You are too young for politics, too beautiful for a jail cell.”
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Not every fate was alike. Not everyone ended up paired off in love.
Fiction
God doesn’t punish wrongdoing. Rewards multiply if tended to in secret.
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Mikey said the hole wouldn’t lead to China, but he was frequently wrong.
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I was creating art instead of counting beans like everyone else.
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I was constantly being torn between belief and disbelief in his narrative.
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“Silence can be difficult, and we’re silent the whole time,” she said.
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The pictures were taken in the woods, naked from the waist down.
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You knelt down to kiss her, avoiding, of course, the wound at her brow.
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I wanted to tear away at the fabric of my pants, dig open my skin.
Fiction
The waitress looked us over, wondering, I guess, if we were famous.
Classics
Yes, the race of children possesses magically sagacious powers!
Fiction
“That pool,” Kenny said, breathing harder. “I’m telling you, it’s magic.”
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I push the stroller across the courts to the scene of the thing I don’t get.
Fiction
How can anyone imagine sleep is possible in such a time?
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Lynette had stepped on something sharp. There was blood.
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She’s young and lovely in a mad, disheveled way, and hard to resist.
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“Why, Ma? I don’t understand. I just don’t want you to be alone.”
Fiction
The surface of night is disrupted. Ripples cross the neighborhood.
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She was laughing. Something animal in me was sparked, and I chased her.
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Edward the Funny didn’t have much to laugh about in his midthirties.
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I’m on the verge of a breakdown. So I might as well have another child.
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“You see,” Sister Elba said, smiling, “you should never doubt him.”
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Eleanor was the first normal person my brother, Nick, ever dated.
