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Norm Jenson
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The men only had eyes for each other, and small-talking to the bartender, as he already knew, was like chatting up a vending machine.
“Never since the beginning of the world has there been so little light. Our winter afternoons have been known at times to last a hundred years.”
― The World Doesn't End: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
― The World Doesn't End: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
“You,” she might have said to a particular grackle. “Georgia. Is it?”
― The Souvenir Museum
― The Souvenir Museum
“Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“The Wheatear PAUL BATCHELOR | 93 words Up for good at five, watching the small rain settle light as pollen on rosehip & nettle in my excuse for a garden, light-headed, thinking how little I had to complain of - no job, no kids, no wife; the life I chose, a life painted on glass; each girl a cure for the one before - I looked & saw a wheatear, a Saharan wheatear teetering on my excuse for a garden wall, seeing without a tear myself, an easy figure trying to recall what, if anything, he was flying from. PAUL BATCHELOR”
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“Outside the vintage shop, the one-footed grackle hopped along the concrete blocks. His mouth was jacked open. He eyed Thea: I’m a bird, but I could fuck you up.”
― The Souvenir Museum
― The Souvenir Museum
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