1642 7 6
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"I'm in a wrestling movie!" you shouted.
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164274
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The Judge waited for the perfect wave.
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1642149
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the wind mistook your arms for wings
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164299
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not every punishment proceeds / without a hitch
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164221
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The story itself is not much longer than a snippet. What is a snippet anyway?
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1642115
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I didn't believe in hiding secrets or broken arrows. So I told my new girlfriend, who in earnest, tried shedding pounds like ugly memories, who glued herself to my shag carpet, watching exerise videos--that I didn't sleep alone. I tried to be as sensitive as possible,…
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1642116
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The days cut off by damp chill with every thought a different variety of protection.
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164200
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In order to be a catalyst for catharsis — which is just a fancy way of saying agent of change — you have to be willing to condition yourself into something partially inhuman. Only something on the very outskirts of humanity…
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1642128
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164298
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164285
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collars of obedience /
discarded in the pyre /
with draft cards and bras
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164211
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“Can you adopt if you work for the circus?” I asked her
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164100
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“A shibboleth is a test—a way to separate da wheat from da chaff that's as old as the Bible, but as new as the latest trend in men's fashions,” Gus says.
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164155
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This story is falling head-first into a mud-puddle.
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164144
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What if blood engorging your penis could be the result of emotions other than sex and violence? Wouldn't it be nice if your dick could be used to express the lengths and depths of other feelings?
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164184
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I remember having a beer once
And feeling like a minor god
And I know in some lie you told
Your life began making sense
And I also know that the mind likes logic
But the heart loves chaos
I just hope flies land on the butter of your soul
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164121
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My buddy had been in the computer business, a systems analyst. Surely there would be some mention of him online. But there was nothing. Nothing, that is, until I saw the obituary.
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164100
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I was awakened by a disturbing dream. He was no longer with me and I felt afraid. Everything was cloudy, almost blurry. I couldn't see much in front of me, but I knew for sure he wasn't there with me. Then he said the words I feared the most “I don't love you.…
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164100
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Still as the knife on the counter there still. Like mothballs in a chest. One with clear bags and newspaper clippings and your scarf inside it. The baby girl could put a mothball in her mouth and suck it like a penny. The way too close to a light bulb bur
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16401511
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Poor, pocked Ceres- dwarf planet/
trapped among mere asteroids-
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164063
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"Eye contact is essential as it shows confidence. I walk with purpose and hope that my skirt isn’t too short. "
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164031
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If this is trouble, please call someone else.
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164000
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Everybody knew Billy Miller. He had messy hair and crooked teeth that he hid behind a thin-lipped smile. He and his friend Jimmy Rodgers, who everyone called Cock on account of his red hair that stuck up like a comb, were inseparable. They liked to ste
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164042
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Although badly educated, and although the Michoacána fought to deny it, she held the complex notion that borders are not abrupt lines, simple artifacts of geography and cartography.
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164000
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Caster had always imagined the Consensus as a big room, as big as the world, filled with white space and people with quantum wings, flitting about, creating information. There were tinted bubbles for people to share for privacy, and the lights never went
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1640133
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—It’s difficult to say, he said. I have mood swings. Women don’t like that. They become upset.
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164021
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Slipshod shoes were the first sign of a meltdown. Sometimes she could see it coming. A prickly gentleman washing his clothes on a Thursday afternoon. One week he’s fine. Nothing wrong with owning a sour face. The next Thursday, his shoes don’t match.
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164088
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His mother was a ballerina.
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164053
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“There’s no real freedom in this world. But a car and the open road is close enough for government work.”
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164041
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threads of Cocoa Krispies
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