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Call him a hobo or homeless or bum or junkie.
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It would be another difference a building has from a “sculpture”. It would be something that even photographers would have difficulty in disguising, since many modern buildings, even many modern photographs of buildings, place such emphasis on symmetry. For both…
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Danica paused for a moment as thoughts of going to Avalon Tech changed to heading for Mystic Intelligence. She could not understand why she thought about going there.
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His mother was not an aw-come-here-honey-and-give-me-a-hug type mom. She was the kind of mother who, if you had some kind of problem, would suggest that perhaps it might be a good idea to volunteer (she was really big on volunteering) at some sort of orga
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they were open weekends if we needed to bring him in for euthanasia.
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“I can’t believe you went ahead and got pregnant without me,” I said.
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Maybe, after years of writing poems like letters, he began to notice that no one ever wrote him back.
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"Don't fuss, hon. I just lick it off like tequila."
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In desperation, the city council imported a shaman to exorcise whatever demons had possessed the house.
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Crea grew up above a pet store and now she dreams of cats. There are too many of them to name, a slinking mess of calico, tabby, tortoise-shell, black and white. There are more each night. They whisper to her, words made of hissing mewls. During the…
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Incredibly he began to picture in his mind a scene not related at all to his frenzied search but of a huge plate of apple pie a la mode with the vanilla ice cream melting in streams like cool lava down the side of the pie and off of the plate.
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Kids are fascinated by me. Adults look the other way. Maybe it's my size. Or maybe it's the stories in the newspapers.
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His head was usually full of ah ha!, a luminescence that folded around obstacles like smoke.
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The first time they were separated, he rediscovered music and writing.
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“Lunge to your right,” the woman on the screen instructs. She is easily six-months pregnant but still looks fit and healthy. “Now show off your baby.” She centers herself, splays her arms, and thrusts her belly out towards us. “Lunge to the left. Now show
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She’ll get a dog
a Weimaraner
I know
She’ll call him Alfie
after her first
two dogs
He’ll try to get up
on the bed
She’ll say, Alfie, no, no
But in the night
she will let him
so as not to be lonely
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...when she spoke, her voice still seemed to spill bourbon from a heavy crystal tumbler, and drift cigarette smoke in a dark paneled room.
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Let’s talk about Chattanooga, the cloud / mountains, the monastery bench, drunk / at sunset
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Is there a recipe for / lasting happiness?
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This couldn’t be a bar; I was with my mother. It took a few seconds for the collision of senses to clear, and I realized the restaurant had not only one, but two flat screen televisions hung in their dining room, and a fake fire blazing in the fireplace.
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The same night your best friend of two years called you up to tell you they don't want to think about you anymore was the same night you had stood silently, leaning, head against the mustard wall in your mom's boyfriend's house, stuck listening to Randy…
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A behind the scenes look at how music influenced the writing of Arcana Magi Universe.
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After breakfast, he dresses and heads / for the blackjack tables.
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How many of them, I'm wondering, are just going through the motions until the power goes out and never comes back on again? They've got to know the Americans will never let the city fall to the færies.
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Difference 'twixt night and day
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And so it begins, like this, waiting to long for a lazy train out of West Toledo...
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"She had been warned." (this started as a fun alien story and then took a human turn.)
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The rain pelted down, it got dark, and they couldn't see a thing. The wind roared like a thousand locomotives.
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I answered with my usual economy of words. If someone wants more, they must ask, and he did.
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