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  1. Aimee Bender _ The Girl in the Flammable

    He said he hated talking and just wanted to look into my eyes and tell me things that way. I let him and it made my skin lift, the things in his look."
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  2. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    But the fact was, Sherrie Marla trusted him already. When he took the ice off, and showed to her his new symmetry, she didn't flinch. His face was him to her now. It was not a map or an indicator of some abstract idea. Turned out it was only the first impression he needed to alter.
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  3. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    It's tempting to think of red for sun," she said, "but it has to be just a dash, not much. More of a dark orange and a hint of brown. And then white on yellow on white. Not bright white,' she said. 'The kind of white that makes you squint, but in a softer way...''Go look at fire for a while. Go spend some time with fire.'Looking at fire was interesting, I have to admit. I sat with a candle for a couple hours. It has these stages of color: the white, the yellow, the red, the tiny spot of blue I'd heard mentioned but never noticed.
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  4. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    But rock, of course, is many colors. The distinction is subtle, but it is not just one plain grey, that I can promise...I spent five hours one afternoon just staring at a rock trying to see into its color scheme.
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  5. Aimee Bender _ The Particular Sadness of

    I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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  6. Aimee Bender _ The Particular Sadness of

    Does it work with sandwiches? he asked.I didn't move. He handed it over. George was watching with a kind of neutral curiosity, and I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do, so I just unwrapped it and took a bite. It was a homemade ham-and-cheese-and-mustard sandwich, on white bread, with a thin piece of lettuce in the middle. Not bad, in the food part. Good ham, flat mustard from a functional factory. Ordinary bread. Tired lettuce-pickers. But in the sandwich as a whole, I tasted a kind of yelling, almost. Like the sandwich itself was yelling at me, yelling love me, love me, really loud.
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  7. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    Dad lost his job. Then he got a new job. Then he got his old job back and went back to it. They were all in the same building.
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  8. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers.
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  9. Aimee Bender _ Willful Creatures

    We end up kissing her for an hour, and her lips are so soft they are almost like a joke.
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  10. Aimee Bender _ Willful Creatures

    She is walking around the living room naked and
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  11. Aimee Bender _ The Particular Sadness of

    Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living. -The Physiology of Taste, Brillat-Savarin
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  12. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    She looked over my shoulder once while I was texting, which was already annoying, and when I wrote lol she made a very clear point to me about how I was silent and not laughing out loud, not at all. I said it was just an expression, and that I was laughing out loud inside my own mind.
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