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Sometimes you're searching for a family and you don't even know it. Sometimes a family finds you.
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In his dreams, he swam in piles of pills. Sometimes the piles were infinite, other times the were contained, tonight the pills were intense shiny reds, chalky yellows, deep blues and matte purples and swirled around in a children's inflatable castle. Derek swam happily,…
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....the first/
in a long history of indignities.
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Effluvium is such a lovely word, so hey surprise it covers rancid butter, vomit, fertile gingko fruit trekked in from the pavement.
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The world is full of dead dogs
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Again, that was not the man I once knew. If they were taking Las Vegas odds; I should be the one dealing with this first.
Why was it him and not me?
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I looked at her, shook my head and tried to smile. She smiled back, beaming a radiance that pushed away the chill.
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A behind the scenes look at how music influenced the writing of Arcana Magi Universe.
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there she was, this beautiful duck with her 4 beautiful babies, under my bush.
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“What are you doing, Maestro?"
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It was in the spring of 1958 when I first arrived in Kobe, Japan, traveling aboard a Norwegian merchant ship, looking to make movies on a limited budget. Superior quality cameras, lenses, and film were being produced in Japan at a fraction of the cost for similar products…
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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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He has stubby, rough little fingers. Good.
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The young man is back again, solo,
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Lila began to hear whispers coming from her home's air vents and quickly assumed people were watching her. Maybe that was why the yard was not progressing she thought. The unknowns talking to her through the vents had control over everything she did.
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The wind has no voice
and yet we listen,
perhaps imagining the ramblings
of a mad man
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“What does the future hold?”
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[DO NOT READ BETWEEN THIS LINE ... CITIZEN!]
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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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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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Steve Bancroft’s future wife showed up at his door that same night, slamming her hand loudly against the door and shouting for him. “Steve, Steve, wake up. Damn it, come on. You forgot to pick me up at the airport. Who are you in there with? I said wa
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I can barely feel the blade as it first goes in. I'm pleasantly surprised. But as she drags the knife across my skin the pain increases becoming more and more painful rising to a point of unbearable agony the further she cuts.
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Some idiot was gonna let a snake eat him. I know, but I saw it on the internets. That's some dumb-assed stuff right there. Everyone knows about snakes. The Jesus book tells us all about them, inside us, slithering through ruby-red and eating our guilt from inside out.…
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Maybe she thinks in Czech, dreams in German, pretends in English. Babylon is a beautiful place after all.
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After breakfast, he dresses and heads / for the blackjack tables.
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The girl who was me stands in a sandbox with upraised arms, honey hair tied with olive yarn in two ponytails. She says nothing, but wants me to pick her up.
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Allen would stroll the remains of the orchard, reminiscing with Tad, flirting with dementia.
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It wasn't until about 2:30 that my hairpiece began mauling small children.
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Because if they’re wavering, it's about the coin, always about the coin.
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