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The fish would need a name, but she didn’t know how to tell if it was a boy or a girl. Did fish have penises?
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What she didn't tell me was that her brother Carl got fried during an electrical storm.
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Lu peeked at his cards again. They were still jacks, and they still looked mighty nice.
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He was a sushi chef, and he would spend hours in their kitchen practicing his knife skills, and the speed with which he can put that there and this in that and so on; and she would see him on the floor most mornings, still wearing that dirty, tattered ban
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She saw no sense in waiting. Waiting was a weakness.
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Only scotch and cheap champagne/
retain their reliable flavors.
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We dig up conscience-tunnels, pluck the play-flower of present choice for fun, run aground, past this dimly lit, though not to be underestimated, stage, and open door upon empty door, to nothing, for the lights are a pulse flickering in the perceptual per
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We crept to the edge of the cliff and stared down at Lake Travis. In this alcove, out of the churn of the speedboats and pleasure craft, the water shimmered, impossibly blue.
“Didn’t you used to jump off here back when you were getting high?” Ryan said
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A lifeboat came by in the night,
And I finally saw we were sinking.
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Do I feel good about any of that? Not really. But I seem to find myself asking over and over again, why should I care? That's something that's never happened before. But I'd be lying if I didn't say I kind of liked it.
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I remember thinking the seasons are arriving later every year,
as if the world has been slowed by the weight of graves.
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The last of your tenuous septum dissolves when you press the nozzle of the neti pot against it.
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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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There's this sepia-toned photograph, which my mother gave me, of my brother and me when we were still both youngsters. In the picture my brother's dressed in a skimpy checked suit whose sleeves were already too short for him — on its way to becoming my
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I cannot begin to list all the ways this conversation can go downhill from here, so I hang up the phone quietly.
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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It was a lover’s dark. They had been talking for hours when daylight lost interest and had gone elsewhere for sport.
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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The sound of drums blared from down the street. Car horns tried to fight the sound. Mayumi and Keiko saw the size of the crowd walking past them increase.
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I blinked the darkness out of my eyes and saw the man again; I could smell his breath. Just like dad’s. I must have fallen asleep. My eyes felt so heavy. I was cold. Why was I cold?
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I’m in high leather boots; I’m talking many dead cows here and I respect that
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Why is the sky grey he asked meI don't know, I saysudden flashes of light snowbloat the cloudssea gulls are squawkingexpect them to peck at my headI have nothing to feed them
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Sharpie marked, Free Still Works
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Lucy looked up, smiled and said mine had a head that looked like a mushroom. I suppose she was right. We were sitting on the floor drawing naked bodies for our anatomy lesson and teasing each other about our lack of drawing talent. We were new friends, having met when…
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He doesn’t intend to lie after this. For now, he just wants to take in the sea and the quiet.
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Both his parents saved their pent up Puritan pasts to fill his ears with brimstone clichés.
"Idle time is the devil's playground", he would tell me, scrunching up his face, stuffing it full of meat lovers pizza.
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Throw them up there but try to make it look tidy. Try to become a little bit paranoid, just enough that you slightly overestimate how much they think of you at all.
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After dinner, I looked forward to taking a shower and cleansing myself of the day’s mishap. Cher had other plans.As I left the bathroom, Cher nipped me in the butt, taking my towel, skin, and blood with her. I remember writhing on the floor outside my sis
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I imagined the crystals in my mouth.
Salt flowers blooming on my tongue.
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