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The loss of my first mentor came as a harsh blow. Roaming the forest with my dog Rosie just wasn’t the same. Her heart was in the right place, but when it came to armed combat, Rosie just didn’t have the goods.
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175186
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You lazy fuckwit! You half-assed shithead!
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175131
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He sees how he could release the duck, imagines it winging low over the water to where the others have made it safely.
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1751157
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...lotus roots carved with clunky holes like a mouse’s drawing of Swiss cheese.
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1751138
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the / future is now incomplete
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175165
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I'm sitting on the B-line toward Park, and there is a woman with the same black bob as Mad TV's Miss Swan, and she is leaning the whole front of her body against the whole pole in front of me, and even though there is plenty of space around her, she is pressed up…
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The old man’s face is worn and tired, his nose and cheeks tinted red over his pale black skin from the frosty January winds blustering through town. He looks more than half frozen, which I don’t find surprising.
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175152
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i built a house in the trees
before i lived in the sky
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1751138
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All the years since, until this morning, I'd thought the actor was James Gregory.
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175100
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He noticed a freckle on the forth toe of her left foot. Her wedding toe. A direct result of one frenzied crowd of melanocytes in the dermis, adjacent to the epidermodermal junction. The fruit of a very subtle orgy.
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1751138
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The stars align against us. Lines of force/
collaborate to push us off the edge/
into the dark abyss we’ve joked about.
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175091
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Carl and Dolly were actors. Dolly was offered the lead in a porno film, but she turned it down.
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175011
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No, I’m not at the junior high bus stop. I’m at the dining room table with my parents.
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1750105
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how alike, breakup & death
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175076
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I pay for 3 Trump Troll Dolls and a package red licorice twizzlers and head back toward the door. Dancing Gnome Girl is there to greet me. I stick a twizzler in the teeth of the donation pail.
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1750117
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He got tired of the pool party, the chit-chat, the suburban posturing, and he decided to swim home.
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1750147
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We flew./
In my dreams, I can fly.
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175010
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He huddles against the wooden beam of a chop suey stand, glaring out into the giant technological organism that was his city. Lights, hulking monstrosities and endless possibilities were teeming in the night-hustle that surrounded him.
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175044
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He looks at me again, this time glancing down at my skinny jeans, “And... are you a single mom?” he seems to think he has it right, taking a last look at my aquamarine colored pants and the tapered area around my calves.
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175000
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Just as Megumi aimed her spell between Arturo and the shrine, a blast of white light fired like a cannon.
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175081
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As I watched her sleep, I saw gentle frost and sun on crystal.
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175020
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The inhabitants of the surrounding neighborhood steered clear of the Lot, mindful of its existence, its countless drags of scrap, drenched with the fused association of many scenes and emotions from memory and experience. Left to its own devices, the place is now…
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17501310
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175086
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paper cuts, an old film unraveled
from its reel, risking exposure.
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in a puddle of water, the butterfly rests on a stone
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174946
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Two cars smashed together, the sky started to look like a foot infected with gout...
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174972
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A man asleep on a stack of tires in front of a tire shop on 10th Aveune, NYC.
A store that’s “open 25 hrs,” where apparently time is being manufactured.
The unknown new element, the 25th hour, even though the other 24 may have been shortened som
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174933
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It is another evening of ordinary sand. The moon worms, all mellow and white, glow shine over the laminated floor. Shay's bladder is full, and protesting with a thump of ache. Shay holds on nervously.Last time she pissed tiny silver fish that roiled in the froth of her…
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