HEMINGWAY’S MASTERPIECE
For sale. Baby clothes. Never used.
VERSUS ANDREW
For sale. Baby clothes. Never worn.
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SALE. Baby’s crib, no mattress. Used once.
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FOR SALE. Double stroller. Half used.
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TRADE. 25 rookie baseball cards. Fleers gum in original wrapper. Chewed.
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FREE. Signed first edition. The Sun Also Rises.
LOST IN TRANSLATION
“So what’s so great about Italy besides the pizza, pasta and gnocchi?”
“You just don’t understand. They have a Giuseppe Verdi.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“In America he would just be Joe Green.”
WEATHER
It was a dark and rainy night in Central Park. But Carson didn’t care. He was watching in Chicago. His constantly scanning the weather had replaced his one-time morbid fascination with reading obits. That’s why he was unaware that the psychologist who cured him had died in San Francisco yesterday. But he did know the sun had risen at 7 a.m.
INTERRUPTUS
He had seduced her last summer on a dare. Now they were standing under a canopy on that very same beach, their feet awash in the gentle waters of truth. They could feel, grain by grain, the receding water pulling the sand between their toes from under their feet. “I can’t do this,” Elena shouted departing from the script. There was something she had not told him. The camera kept rolling.
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