Richard Kostelanetz

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Perhaps; yes, perhaps.

The end of this story will remain unknown.

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He woke me up by kicking his foot through the bathroom wall.

His body radiated warmth and, yes, comfort; it attracted, yes, both women and bugs.

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She shoved his small fist past his teeth, deep into his mouth.

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It was in the back of the station wagon, on top of beach towels that we first made love.

He never recovered from the fact that his virginity was taken from him rather than given.

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No matter how loud she screamed, she gave birth to her first child alone.

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It was a neighborhood in which you never saw anyone over sixty or under twelve.

One charm of life there is that the mailbox is usually empty and the telephone never rings.

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The women filling her dreams were bodies without faces.

Why did she call me "promiscuous" this morning; it never bothered her before?

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She liked to squeeze dog's testicles until they yelped. Exhausted from her labors, she spent the day asleep in a bed of wheat.

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If I find woman extremely attractive, I can imagine her next to me in my car, beneath me in my bed and above me in the cemetery.

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He wanted to kill all the dogs, not just the two bitches but all their puppies, that had settled between him and his wife.

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I am capable of loving both women and girls.

I am the only American who slept with the daughters of three Presidents.

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Once his teeth were gone, he could no longer laugh so freely.The wax of a row of Chanukah candles was dripping onto his bald head.

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Emerging from the shower she found herself in the middle of a shaving cream fight.

"Why," she wondered, "was his right nipple missing?"

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The part of the fish she liked the best to rest on her tongue was the eyes.

Her boyfriends were usually small as her bulldog.

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Whenever I see on the streets a good looking man I would like to know better, I look directly in his eyes and imagine my breasts bare.

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The only knocks on her door that he would answer had to be in the rhythmic code appropriate for the week.

He remembered everything about her, even the configuration of hairs in her ears.

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Her bed was so noisy I was reminded of the percussions section of an orchestra; it also made me fear that she was trying to alert someone else to my presence here.

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She spoke so quickly that one heard only the beginnings of her sentences.

      Directly underneath me I can see burning flies.

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He could not face his typewriter, even at home at night, without putting on his silk tie and silk jacket. He knew he had to act as if nothing could be wrong.

      I had to hold my nose tightly, ever so tightly,
            as I entered her room.

      I noticed a straight line
           drawing itself across the floor.

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She sealed their relationship with a haircut that resembles his, notwithstanding his baldness.

She stole his best ideas and called them her own -- even this line.

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