
"She will harrow this town, she will turn him up, whole or in pieces."
- Sister, from The Oxygen Man
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"She will harrow this town, she will turn him up, whole or in pieces."
- Sister, from The Oxygen Man
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#Poetry
“Around the turn of the nineteenth century, the Scottish tinkerer and chemist James Watt began working on a new project.”
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Somewhere to the south and east lay Hungnam, the North Korean port on the Sea of Japan.
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Ma had said she would give the cordwainer man a baby - the thing he could not get from his dull-as-ditchwater wife - and we would get a roof in return.
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"March, and the weather's miserable."
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“She breathes in time with the sea.”
So far I‘m loving this. My daughter bought it for me because of the beautiful cover. 🩵
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It was a good year for me, even if it was a bad one for Rome.
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"The employment application had a section about alcohol consumption and Harley Bolin lied that he never drank."
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