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Mrs. L. was sitting on a love seat in her nightgown. She was sitting in a man’s lap....
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After years of unsustainable binge spending and a global economic semi-meltdown, most people have had to cut back on their expenses. Many folks are struggling to make do in this new and bewildering economy and we are all learning to live on our means, rather than beyond…
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A shadowless torpedo shaped form plummeted from the grey, overcast skies upon the many unsuspecting. No remote pilot thousands of miles away guided this particular descent.
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With a roar and short burst of flame, the dragon awoke, startled.
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The ocean smelled like decomposed plant life and clinically despicable vagina, but I still spoke of its power and my fear of it in moonlit clichés and she still listened.
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He was just walking along, making sure that no white, Hispanic, Native American or Asian people were doing anything illegal when he noticed the young black man walking down the street.
He hadn't meant to.
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After he got on one knee, and she said, I do. After they watched the televised bombs disappear the city. After everyone fell asleep. After shock and awe, him and her making love…
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Ug seemed kinda down in the dumps so, uncharacteristically for a male hominid, I asked him why he looked so glum.
“Ug no find nice girl,” he said, poking a stick in the dirt.
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A Nocturne, whose grey mana seeped out of it mouth, grabbed the roof of the building with its large claws. Using it as leverage, it stood itself up, hunched over, its long whale like head roared like a loud horn.
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She dips a toothpick in ink, running prick over paper, simply to prove herself wrong.
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an EZ How to Guide in 50 simple steps
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[B]y fleeing the city to live on the outskirts of nowhere—a place so far off the beaten path that even Duras’s aging Mr. Andesmas would have felt isolated—I was of course trying to escape from none other than myself.
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Yes, he'll be quiet. Very quiet. He rocks himself, the ark, suddenly imagining water underneath him, over head, all around. Water, water, water—
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there should be a word for it.
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a mere forty years/and maybe you become twelve,/maybe sixty-three.
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It is the first day of summer, a blue-green afternoon, and we sit beneath the English oak, Quercus robur. Everything has at least two names. It is the first day of summer, or the last day of something else.
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His looks were polished like his shoes, his hair as black. No one would have guessed he made his living as a thief.
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my mouth is open, ready to bite your tiny toes
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Takashi and Hideki stared at the pool of grey Mana. A scientist carefully contained some of the mist into a container.
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That was the summer that Christine Nelson owned me.
It felt like catching the flu. I had it bad. I was about to turn seven, and it was my first time, and it was bad. A love like that, I don’t know, it’s not a love supreme. It wasn’t completely cru
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I fear my personal information travels the World Wide Web/
and mad Ukrainians will steal my name and wealth./
I fear the fiscal cliff and raising the ceiling on national debt./
I fear a death by taxes.
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“I want you to know that you are being watched,” Ernie said. “I have trained a camera on your work station.”
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The rocket shone in the distance. Cape Canaveral had never looked so pretty.
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She said, “I think I’m pregnant,” but I thought that the sidewalk looked cleaner than usual,
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The Misses Moses by Brad Watson from Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives The Moses sisters lived together, alone, in the fine old brick house near downtown where they…
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The door shuts slowly to something that’s allegedly mine
and it sits there and waits until I come home
just like you.
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The army was bulldozing grandmother's house.
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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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In the panic following news of my motorcycle crash, my honey fled the house without coat or wallet, and now, nearly midnight, we don’t even have cab fare home.
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...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
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