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My mother was Irish as Paddy's pig. So all her family. Lovely people they were. Also, seldom seen among the Folk; stone cold sober. My father's family; Bavarian German. Bavaria's the wrong side of the German tracks. Frankfort people laugh at Bavarians as people in…
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The mulch vendor is a crook but we have no choice, not with the shortage of soil. Have to guard the stuff, put alarm wires around the garden, leave a friend in charge to spot the thieves if you go away overnight. If you…
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The Master of Sleep had lived alone for many years, so when his daughters first moved into his house he welcomed them, seemingly glad for their company...
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Marge bought the rug on-line.
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I built the fence myself, strong and high and aesthetically pleasing. It was high enough to provide privacy on both sides, but from my bedroom balcony I could see everything. More than I wanted to see.
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My poems have appeared in four different publications; three have died shortly after they ran my stuff. Coincidence, or something more sinister?
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There are three ways I can love you, not even half of one more.
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I saw life and beauty choking
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Here are some ideas for stories I have had. 1. A captain of a whaling ship loses his leg to a whale, and makes it is life's mission to find this beast and kill it, and make a pair of boots, belt, and wallet out of its skin. 2. Ten people are invited to stay the weekend at a…
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The thing Bentley remembered most about her was she had no body odor. None.
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Flames dance behind glass
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After we'd been on the highway about an hour, it started to snow. Sammy leaned down to pick up the roach he'd dropped, and we skidded off the highway
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"Lately I've been thinking a baby's the only way I might be able to hang on to you."
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Bill was queasy, short of breath, his chest tightening. He was next. How he hated this game of confession. It was harder than going to a priest, which at least allowed a measure of anonymity. True, these were friends, yet, in terms of the game, he was vastly…
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Everyone runs to the plane but me. I get the last seat (middle of 5), crush men’s bags on my way. I’m white & female. They glare.
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It started like this: just him saying, "Nice to meet you, Marie," and me, while I just said his own name back to him, at the same time thinking, "I want you to take me to a hotel room someday, Frederick. I think I’ll like the way you’d make me feel...
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My spooky cat got out again. Under the deck she ran. Out came the hose that chased her about. Fur spiked, tail pointing, yowling, she hissed at me, and back in the house she pranced. It's been two days now. She slithers out for food after…
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After sportscasters announced the assassination and while the reverberations of the words were still fading people were already shouting
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The Viper turns so quickly that Father's grabbing hand now faces its head instead of its tail.
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What a beautiful Thing / Urine is
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I think I remember now why people write poetry.
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Fergus Winston, a former accountant from New York, finds himself mixed up in the middle of a trafficking operation in small town Iowa.
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Maybelline Jones is my sister, my friend, and I try to tell her the right way to be.
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Pull her from the water and check
her pockets. Shouldn’t death tattoo
a message on each palm it removes
the pulse from.
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Kick your employer in the ass. Emotions are strange experiments in honesty.
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It's eerie. There are no birds. My friend and I take our morning walk in a bubble of silence.
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Now comfy is as comfy does, but when sleeping strange, please accept a wide range of cradle, crib, cave.
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The bus is late; the papers disappear.
The china breaks, and the suit does not fit.
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// opening act: van featuring balloon featuring drugs
// headliner: lubv ya babe
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