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They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen-dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans…So when the b...more

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..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nob...more

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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out o...more

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Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and talks His inside business. He told me.how surprised y'all is goin' tuh be if you ever find out y...more

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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in ...more

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She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the ...more