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Tell me everything about yourself, if I could care, I can pretend, let me pretend.
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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’
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1601 0 0
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Crack open the roof-- raise the battery on a platform with chains
up into the lightning
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It turned out Eel’s brain corrects for imbalance, and he can only feel danger for a moment or two.
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“The beginning was good. That’s what he likes. The moment when you’re driving in the open air and your hair is flying and your skirt is whipping up around your knees, and he’s smoking, of all things, and happy and looking at you."
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We are young
That’s all we’ve got
We take drugs
We smoke pot
You got mugged
And I got shot
We are young
That’s all we’ve got
I want you to love me like it’s midnight
Midnight, midnight
Yeah, your mama wants you home
But she knows
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I pull into the parking lot and see a group of roosters squawking and trying to overturn an ‘87 Pontiac Bonneville that's caught fire. They're pouring whiskey down their throats. They're weeping over a bag of economy sized frozen breast fillets.
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1601 5 3
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1601 6 5
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They acquire him in a bar that is famous for its shipwrecks.
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1601 6 5
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He refuses to answer his phone, preferring the safe medium of email or his answering machine. He only eats pre-cooked, pre-packaged food, only drinks bottled waters, sodas and juices. He has cable, but only watches late-night infomercials and shopping cha
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1600 6 4
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His face was creased with sadness the first time in the room and he danced his tai chi like a young man half his age, and laughed, like headtrippers do, from the neck up.
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1600 5 1
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Because he tells her to, she puts on a vintage Easter dress one size too small and sprawls in a circle of light on the dusty floor...
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1600 0 0
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The sun was at the edge of the earth. The shadows around Ayane and her friends brought the creature closer.
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1600 0 0
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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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1600 26 6
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Closed gate without fences
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1600 4 3
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“106 more miles,” she said.
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1600 7 1
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Things don't always go to plan. Gem knew what people would have said back then, of course. She wasn't stupid.
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1600 13 12
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Forty years later he was still her Romeo, she his Juliet.
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1600 7 6
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Despite what the bible says, Shadrach and Meshach had no third brother named Abednego. To pay for his cello lessons, Yo-Yo Ma worked the subways of New York as a busker. Just chill. After Sal went into witness protection, he yearned for a job at the art…
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1600 3 1
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My mind raced at the endless possibilities one could die while driving to get a pizza.
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1600 4 1
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"His middle name is Valentine, and when asked about it, he isn't sure why."
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1599 2 0
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The location : Vic's Seedy Space Bar. No, that's not just a description, that's the real name.
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1599 2 2
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" I have no idea what's goin on out here, and I'm gonna find out one way or another."
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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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1599 2 1
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The leaves were meaningless because they were no longer connected to the trees.
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1599 9 5
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A spire
that had stood one hundred and forty years
fell in
a single second of the blackest day.
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It's London Zoo and ten minutes to closing time. The clock walks in and out of cages. I love you baby when you laugh like that at monkeys.Penguin and pelican, wing in wing, approaching. It's some bird act, I know. Two birds from nowhere. One flies, one walks.The zoo…
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1599 2 0
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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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I dragged you that last half mile Me such a slip of a thing, one bite mark visible You the bear, your growl now only audible When you furred from kerb to road to kerb The December snow followed us Dragging Christmas red behind you As I ignored my…
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