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Thank God It's Friday!

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It was only a dream. No one died, nor were they even harmed. So horrifying!

The Long Walk Home

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The last time Cyrus rode in a train’s passenger car, he came home a dead man.

Begonia {part five}

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With a roar and short burst of flame, the dragon awoke, startled.

Milkmen

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I can barely pick out the numbers on the houses

Monsieur, Monsieur, Nous Avon Pamplemousse!

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He came running out of his narrow little shop, Berthillon and chased me down the Ilse St. Louis street, saying, “Monsieur, Monsieur, nous avon pamplemousse! It’s ici, Monsieur. Your pamplemousse. They just come in this matin, morning and I’

Still Life (55 words)

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It wasn't so much the softness of the bed that kept her from sleep, or the pungent bleach-scent of the unfamiliar sheets, but the lack of her clock's familiar tick, tick, tick. Or was it a missing heartbeat? Awake, she watched his chest. On the table, an empty pill …

SNOWSTORM

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long lines, short words

DRIVING WITH JON

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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.”

If I Were a Chemist, Not Now, but Maybe In The 1920s

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She said, “I think I’m pregnant,” but I thought that the sidewalk looked cleaner than usual,

Relics

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Theresa Esposito woke to the smell of pignoli cookies baking. The sweet scent made her stomach rumble. She was ten-years-old today. And she felt ten. Her hair, her ears, her eyes, her toes — everything felt ten.

Parts

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Trigger warning: casualties of war.

Eight-Legged Freaks

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I’ve just moved to New York City and, somehow, Scarlett Johansson is at the same party I’m at.

Too Weak for the World

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There was a certain romanticism in it, the salty old man sidling up to me at a bar, rhapsodizing in a slurred stream of conscious about the state of the world, the country, the state of his own heart. He didn't have an eye patch nor beard, nor was he…

Rocket

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The rocket shone in the distance. Cape Canaveral had never looked so pretty.

Hara-kiri

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unwrapping the gauze from her wrists....

The Mojave Desert Remembers Ron Paul

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The Mojave Desert remembers Ron Paul With tattered billboards Scraped and clawed by vehement dust

Greet Death

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where are you now?

Happy Birthday!

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[WARNING: DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 'R XMAS!]

Things to Do while Waiting for the Toaster

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For you have waited. And waited and waited. And soon your slice of bread will be ready.

Last Call

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It’s last call for the Class of 2001, their five-year reunion drawing to a close, and Brenner, in his standard t-shirt and holey jeans, has just arrived.

The Search

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“Sixty-seven responses!” Al Edelstein announces at the first meeting of the search committee. It has been just two weeks since Rabbi Feldman dropped dead of a heart attack and just a week since the congregation ran the ad: “Help Wanted: Orthodox Rabbi. Im

1970

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deformed or retarded

bunk

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I bit her ear and / it was burnt toast

A Look In the Mirror

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...That flash of horror as well as the lie that replaced it were mirrors of sorts and both told the truth.

Mon Oncle

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Mrs. L. was sitting on a love seat in her nightgown. She was sitting in a man’s lap....

Date Night

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Content may contain ordinary, everyday, and all around average happenings.

Honeymoon Bike Ride

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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.

Martini Business

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On Martini Business Nights the rules of decorum were written by Esquire or Playboy.The red bar-side book divulges the secrets brewed with ice, libation and a sleek chrome shaker, because its all about the accoutrement, and technique. Mr Boston said that, NOT James Bond. If…

Charles the Bold Signs His Name

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Charles the Bold is holding a pen.

The History of Strands

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We cannot love the past...