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and the mass exceeds the buoyancy/
and gravity pulls you back,
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I walked on hot coals. She got ahead of me. (228 words)
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". . . with the impact of a 18-wheeler jack-knifed into a Mini-Cooper as it hits the surface."
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wrenched its lower back trying so hard to lift too many stacked November clouds off the newly shaved prickly heads of the slowly freezing trees,like ring weights,and had to spend the last of its hours setting in a small square box in…
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When i close my eyesI see the faces of the deadI hear their voices The things they said, their laughter The ones i thought would live forever!! Something got them though: the ones who lived fastIt was a drug, some bullets, a disease I thought they would live forever!!Those…
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In principle, Sergeant Brock Lumley resisted superstition, but if you were to stop him on any given day he was patrolling Baghdad streets with his rifle squad and ask him to open the front left ammo pouch on his flak vest, he’d get this look on his face..
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"Heaven-high, choking on our own breath and each other's tongues."
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I saw the little family that lives
under the neighbor's backyard deck
two weeks before while decapitating grasslets
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I was making good bread as a New York studio musician and jingle writer, anonymous back-room jobs.
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When VCRs were invented in the 1970s, the first big user segment was people who wanted to watch porno films in the comfort of their own home. Troy and Lynn's upstairs neighbor, James, an enlisted man in the Navy stationed at Pearl Harbor, had a vast porn…
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But it all works out. I guess. Truth is something I'm sure I've never seen before, but the more time goes on, the Less I'm inclined to believe in it. Still I don't want To be one of those giving the finger to God And begging for a showdown with an…
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The tiles begin inching toward him as soon as he moves. You've seen filings on glass. He's the magnet on the underside.
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Her skin is muddy earth/
I'd gladly play in.
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Mother saw and swung. It was a talented slap. The kind which left white welts and then dissolved to venom in your veins. The inside of your cheek puckered and bloated.
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While space and time opened up for us, the ground accelerated its attempts to devour the astronaut. Grasses grew up around his edges. Seeds propagated in the folds of his suit, tendrils found their way into the mysterious holes for the missing hoses that
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You always complained that Christmas/
ruined your birthday/
sister.
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My wife and I are cat people. Indeed, that's how we met. We met at a wake.
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Let there fly the sticky platypus of love, resplendent beak of the sleek.
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Here’s how you do it. First you get a ladder, a long one.
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The little Hannibal Lectors had run like bandits away from the flames and had latched on to their equipment and gear. They screamed as the bugs crawled all over them. When they got back to the station they had to quarantine all their stuff so the bugs w
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A famous author and an inspired writer meet at a coffee shop, both looking for inspiration. The patrons there don’t know if this meeting is by accident or design, but they are in awe of Fame.
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A constellation appears in the shape of Van Gogh’s missing ear.
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The Happy Bunny Family had a secret: They weren't very happy.Everyone in town knew it, but of course no one said anything. Mr. Happy Bunny would stroll through the center of town on his way to work and people would smile and nod and wish him a good day and he would return…
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Teaching never occurred to me in college. I took workshops and wrote often. Friends and classmates, meanwhile, switched from studio majors to Art Education, or from English to Certification. Not me. Teaching high-schoolers would be all wrong. Briefly, I…
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Nothing more savory than gossip relayed in confidential tones.
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She lets go and it slides back too slowly.
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The tsunami started, ironically enough, with a phone call.
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The contrast can be summed up in a sip.
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