“I don’t expect you to be back again,” Rita said after they’d made love in an East Texas motel. Les looked at her with his
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Ask my love ask my love to listen / his chest is a patchwork of ocean / I can lie there & thread salt to
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A wisp of a girl, about four, in a blue dress, edges down a spiral coil in the children’s play area at Lake Temescal. Her
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The beeping slows, the machines winding down their vigil. “Tell her I love her,” you say as your eyes close for the last time. I
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The blush wine is sweet on Sandra’s tongue. Denise hands her the box of chocolates and points. “Those have soft centers.” “I shouldn’t,” Sandra says,
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Standing next to you on your stage of sand, with the wind warming my skin and the moon heating my thoughts, I didn’t understand how
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and in love, i think climbing over each other laughing you push me down and we’re struggling against the current but it’s fun and salty
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Mama said no, but I’m going anyway. She doesn’t need to know. I lower the passenger seat window. The night breeze is a contemplative sort
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The view from the window was astounding as the airliner broke through the clouds and made a gentle left turn, crossing in all its glory
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I know that the poplar beneath your window is shooting young leaves and that the magnolias and tulips across the road are in blossom yet
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My dear friend, Our discussions while walking at the beach often provoke later exploration. Subsequent to our last enterprise, I came across this interesting comment:
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She’s a lot like North Dakota. Everybody knows that North Dakota is a state, but they never think that they’ll actually end up there. It
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Homer Wallace poked indifferently at his fruit cup and pondered his predicament. He didn’t like his name. He had traveled 78 years and it had
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I am dreaming again, of a lover drawing his fingertip along the bridge of my nose, following that secret line dividing my lips in four
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Kate wakes up bleary eyed and startled as lights flick on, a harsh glow from overhead. For a moment, she forgets where she is, why
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