1905 15 12
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(I'd appreciate some feedback on this very weird story.) A Frosted Mini Wheat walks in to a bar...
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1905 0 1
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I am reaching out at you, to you from the nest. From the nest, please come to the nest, to see me and to hear my life story. From the nest I go, and then I arrive at the nest, suddenly, just in time to be…
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1905 19 12
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A screaming comes across the brain
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1905 17 8
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"Your mother does sailors," the parrot screeched.
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1904 9 4
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1904 10 5
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Rounding a corner, Clarissa wiped out and hit the floor chin-first. She wailed and the dildos skittered away under a display.
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1904 11 9
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Your precious feet were there once, pressed against the familiar floorboards, where your poems suddenly appeared to you, flashing like lightning. I wonder which window they came in? Here's a thought: you were like that window. You caught…
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1904 1 0
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Amyra pressed her hands on the brick wall and rubbed it. She thought about hanging something on there, but she did not have the tools to make a hole. In fact, the thought of having a hole in the wall would be enough.
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1904 1 0
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My best friend Khaled’s idea was, he’d set up a pool tournament. Nine-ball. Each church would send a player, and whichever church won, he’d join. Any church that wouldn’t shoot pool, he wouldn’t want to join.
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1904 0 0
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Sometimes he could feel so small he believed he could fit through the eye of a needle.
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1904 4 2
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He finds a beach ball and recreates humanity upon it. Kicking it down the shore he wonders how the little people must feel about each other. To place them on such a tiny globe almost seems unfair.
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1904 5 5
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1904 14 5
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She's the one you remember when there's talk of the blow.
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1904 8 3
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Sometimes they bleat like sheep when I shave in the shower. They live in a complex social order.
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1904 5 2
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Within a day, she had a scummy apartment which belonged to the government. It had cockroaches, which she was not used to. They churned her stomach, repulsive little things. Not even creatures. Two brains, she'd read: one in the head, one in the ass.
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1904 7 2
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Of course the man went tumbling, and though he fell not far, a falling with a body full of meats and sweet breads makes the landing something awful-not so bad that Desperate got it-only so the leg puffed like a blue, rain swollen, earth-bound cloud.
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1904 5 6
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In Your Absence the yard-cat, Flower, has started sleeping on top of the fridge
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1903 4 4
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Do you spend most of your time on Facebook, or all of your time on Facebook?
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1903 0 0
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The unfanged obscene had finally caught him in the night.
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1903 4 2
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and to adorn my hair I chose every kind of light
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1903 4 3
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[testing ... one, two, three ... testing ... is this thing on? ... ok, here goes:]
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1903 13 6
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Attached in the center were the petals of a small flower pressed in wax paper. Uncreased, she read it out loud
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1903 16 11
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“If 'neighbor' applies to women who covet—'deliriously desire'—husbands from Angers, then one day he'll be your husband's neighbor," I say.
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1903 6 2
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So, when Daddy grabbed that cock by the neck and threw him into the hole that he quick covered with dirt, I knew right then that men would play a subservient role in my life going forward.
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1903 6 4
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But who am I kidding. We aren’t in love. Being in love is for high schoolers or middle aged divorcees exploring their sexuality. Our love is real, sweaty, backwards, forwards, angry, trusting. We love as you only can after seeing someone at their best and
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1903 5 3
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I opened my switchblade mouth and sliced
through the scab of silence.
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1903 8 3
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I want her life to pass in a world without meridian
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1903 20 11
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When the car arrived, Kitty bounded out, lipstick-stained cigarette dangling, silver hair tightly teased. We could not escape her hug, smelling of peppermint and Aqua-Net and Jean Nate.
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1903 22 17
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While you can,/
find the beautiful
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1902 7 8
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I wake up with the taste of mud in my mouth. Ashy, sulfurous, charred, with traces of rotten shellfish.
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