1992 9 7
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Giving challenging patrons funny nicknames is a "library thing."
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1992114
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Billy had crystal blue eyes A small mouth And long hair to cover up his Hearing aids. He told me once, with his hands How he liked to submerge His head in water and yell So loud he could feel it. "I can hear myself that way," he…
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199200
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As Mayumi ran toward the battle, she watched helicopters over the giant centipede explode and rain down on the street below. Lightning bolts, fireballs, and water balls that burst into rain, littered the skies.
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1992127
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The end is rehearsed over and over;/
in a world without heaven all is farewell.
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199220
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Gateway Loves are lethal. They do not discriminate between bot or flesh, primary or clone.
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199264
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"...I wonder if it held magical powers..."
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19921211
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Everything would've been copasetic except about the time we got down there they put the turkey in the fryer..
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199221
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One night the woman went down in the
basement, grabbed an electric drill, and let the voices out in eight places.
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19921713
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199241
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Butchie was the one who heard about the bonfire happening over on Harrison Avenue.
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199172
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Fingers of angry red welts crossed his face and neck.
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199186
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wild eyes open your iris sunrise
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19912217
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The world is full of dead dogs
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199100
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He picked her out of the crowd at Club Mai, easy when you knew what to look for: long, dark hair, pretty Latina face, store-bought tits. This one wore a tight dress that showed off her legs, sculpted to perfection by God and a pair of four-inch stilettos.
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1991102
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Time
Holds
Ultimately
Nothing
Dear
Except
Reunion
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199195
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Then I would say to my new friends, “My God, look at all the weight you’ve lost.” Even when they hadn’t lost any. Even when they were fatter than before.
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199000
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Track One Johnny Burkemeister, lead vocals and flutist of the band Albatross Antics, sits on his bed thinking in silence. His elbow rests on his knee, and his palm on his forehead with his fingers running through his dirty-blonde hair. He is staring at a copy of Paste…
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199041
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Steam rolls out of the bathroom as Mr. Larson opens the door with a white towel around his waist. Pepper strolls up to him and purrs as she rubs her long, gray tail against his tanned legs."Hey, girl.” He runs his coarse, scarred fingers through the cat's soft coat.…
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199042
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I want to break that mug. (Break him.)
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1990278
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They discovered the baby in the grass, under the snapping cotton sheets.
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19891812
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Reality winks at us then scampers off
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198911
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His name was Atticus. Yes, exactly like that other Atticus you’re thinking of. Though it was more to do with his mother’s unnatural obsession with Gregory Peck and less to do with a love of classic novels (because Lord knows she scarcely read a thing
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198921
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Beard of Bees
My father always used to say to me, he said "Son" (he called me son) "Son. Falling in love is easy. Getting into the Guinness Book of World Records is hard".
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198975
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We could kiss under the elder tree, even though it was forbidden, even though we were drowned by the noise of the river and nothing we said was right
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198942
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So it was cancer. And so he was screwed, royally screwed. He was screwed all the more because he knew how screwed he was. He had to carry the shame of knowing, as much as he wanted to deny it, that this had been his first thought when he found out about h
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19891410
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It is indisputable that poets love roadkill...
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1989128
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"Everything except food and sex."
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198800
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A burst of mud spilled out over Jonas and scooped his body up like a raging river. It spun his body over in a rebound rather than pushing him through the door.
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198853
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Even though it was late November, it still bloomed. Extravagantly. Obviously it had no shame, obviously it reveled in its own beauty.
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198830
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He was dead when he tried to wake up.
“Wake up,” he yelled silently to himself, although it didn’t sound silent to his voice.
“Brr, brr, brr,” shouted his alarm clock as it glared two red fives, a colon and a seven
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