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I wanna make
banana peel poems--
slippery little booby traps
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They could cram Rob inside the trunk and then drop him somewhere in the dingles.
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We became The World Famous Shadow Puppet Theater because we thought that the best way to become world famous was to act as though we already were.
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like the dome of an immense lamp
like blades of grass at the sweep of the scythe
like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide
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The dowdy woman in fart nailed the vim.
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Jojo dolls & basketballs
a mindflex & pick-up sticks
Parcheesi and—no, not Parcheesi
a supersoaker, a Care Bear
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"She saw they were absorbed in making faces at each other with a smartphone app that enlarged a mouth."
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Ivan was used to explosions, but this was high in the sky. He was on his back between tall sunflowers that grew infinitely in all directions. The blast made the flowers bow their heads. Bits of debris fell from the blue sky, some shiny, trailing fire or smoke. The boy…
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Every ten days, the Decadent Sisters assembled for dinner. Although raised together, they were each very different...
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Early Spring, 1075, Northumbria: Judith, too ashamed to speak, too angry to cry, waves her handmaiden away. She wants no food. Wind drives icy rain across the thickness of…
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Out in the world again, pretending to belong.
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151111
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On that balcony, on every other day, she practised her other, more worldly religion - gardening, specifically sunflowers.
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In this lab, where I work 40 hours a week,
live the ghosts of questions asked.
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Ever since they switched from paper scripts to the little rubber balls branded with code I have been inundated with sickness.
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Excelsior: A Poem in Nine Parts Preface: Musings on a Lighthouse by an Eastern Isle (Suggested by a painting by Mario Larrinaga) It is bright tonight; this plain, displaced from place In Time's broad flight, yields…
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I bit her ear and /
it was burnt toast
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How long have you been waiting for me? How long?
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151021
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The man was happy, filled with it, the happiest he had ever been. He was so happy that he felt he did not deserve it and he deflated.
A woman with apples for shoulders and an eep for a laugh told him that he did deserve to be happy and the man thought
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If you work with the public, you're stressed. Unreasonable customers. Demanding bosses. Reduced staffing. I love my job, but the workload is tough and getting tougher. What can we do to keep our spirits up?Play Customer Appreciation! It's simple. Assign a point value…
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The TV projects from an insect arm. It has the face of my ex-husband, smiling and void. I like to set small fires and inhale them.
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Everybody called her The Crier because from time to time we would hear her crying.
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His academic nightmare is set in an examination hall, where the student takes a seat at a folding table in the center of the room.
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151021
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He was choking on the fumes.
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A story about convincing people to do things they don't want to do, written entirely in dialogue; originally published by CHEAP POP.
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A new philosophy stirs in its surgery.
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Three teeth. You can pick them out if you hit pause just right. Probably not a person in the entire valley who hasn’t seen that video from the Eastern Cheerleading Finals. They even showed the tape on the eleven o’clock news in Scranton, my face ci
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I imagine diving into a vat of dried fruit, enjoying the unmistakable sweetness in each shriveled morsel, until I find myself biting into an undetected metal shard.
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