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"They treat us like shit," the mathematician said. "They think they can just take us and electrocute us and drown us."
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People crawling up out of the chimney, then onto the roof, then sliding down it and off over the edge disappearing from view.
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But the boy next door is worse than a dweeb; he's a prima donna and a bully and a little shit to boot. The divorce will only make him more.
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I am a shadow. Cooler than liquid. I don't need a container to take shape.
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The snake-like veins began to pulsate angrily, and viciously about his body. Quickly he rose up about the girl. His heart was now pounding rapidly against his chest. Outstretched, were his wings, the width of the balcony, white and decrepit and old, yet s
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I have/been you/years before/of course
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His velvet mouth, shaped perfectly to intertwine with hers, teases the space between them until its caress finds her.
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neon carrots and atomic tangerines
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When he took Medieval German Lit in graduate school, Ackermann read Der Ackermann aus Böhmen by Johannes von Tepl. His professor was amused both by his last name and that his grandparents were Germans from Bohemia. Of course, only his grandmother was from Bohemia and…
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“Tell me again,” you whisper softly, “about the songbird.”
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I like my men like I like my wine: in a box.
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I think of our first morning in front of the mirror and the hairbrush that we shared—the hairs in it brown from you, blonde from me. I miss this day and when I cannot sleep, I watch your window from my room until your light goes out. Sometimes, I can se
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He awoke with a start. This was not the first time he did so. He couldn't afford these occasional bouts of sleep. And certainly not in the land of the Tsantsa hunters.
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A powerful song is often a result of imaginative storytelling through a unique “voice” and pitch-perfect musicality.
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Each person in each car could be poetic/
Duende, but they look at each other and ask/“Did you fart?”
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Renee said, "I have actually slept with a number of Captains of Industry and would rate them, overall, deficient in skills."
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He died a printer finding late/
after so much selling himself selling/
a craft that pleased and paid enough
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powerless against the memory of the earth-bank and the river flows, through a susurrus field of a million quills
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Yankees call them daffodils.
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When I finally went back to school in the fourth grade, after coming down with polio, my classmates were very welcoming, though I couldn't go outside and run around like them yet at recess or lunch time. That would come, just not right away. But it was th
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When asked to turn over the Church's riches / he brought before the Roman prefect the poor, blind, ragged and infirm.
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The pear is a bruise. Feels like desperation in the light, it looks soft and blue. She wants to touch it and doesn’t want to. How the blood gathers under the blue and the body grows tender. Swells. Slowly.
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'Do you feel that, my little one?' Stillness. Calm. I felt the baby move her tiny little feet and smiled.
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Later I asked Mark if he wanted to watch, but his wife wouldn’t let him. She didn’t like kinky stuff, she said.
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He begins talking about string theory. He reels me back in, from the dinosaurs to the infinite, human evolution and alternate dimensions, until it makes so little sense that everything makes sense.
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Space, blank, uninterrupted, but then a fissure, a crack, a corridor, and down it you're walking.
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They're bound to wonder what sort of offspring we'll hatch. We've done the tests, we are cross-fertile.
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Assimilated wheat germ
integrated ant worm
the capital of brazil.
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It wasn’t funny. It wasn’t scary. It wasn’t great. And it never is with people.
Except..eventually..when you meet the right person..it is.
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