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Gravity Does Not Apply

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Gravity? What does that have to do with writing or with this improbable tether of blue marbles?

Arcana Magi Zero + Pure - c.13

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Street by street, non-combatants ran away. Each one passed by the Society and law enforcement screaming.

My Drifter Doppelganger

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Looming ahead was another polite suburban party at which, after a couple of pops, I'd say something that embarrasses my wife in front of her girlfriends. Or so she claims.

Begonia {part five}

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

Raise Really High The Roofbeam, Gassbag

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When I heard that my brother was going to get married, I was more surprised than anything, but also awed by his courage. Our sister, named Baah Baah during a particularly bad recreational substance binge by our fun-loving, aristocratic parents, Nancy and

It's Next Door

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The old lady from next door had been really quiet for the last few days.

Robot Museum

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ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF ROBOTS!

Bearing Witness

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I hold them to the light...

Everything Has Been Arranged (or, Chamomile Tea at Ten Thousand Feet)

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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.

Glue

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There is no cement stronger than the one holding a miserable couple together.

Poem on the Table

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Its intelligence won’t be/ diminished when you take/ a bone saw to its cranium

Making Time

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Sleep left him like a fragmenting illusion. Suddenly, he was awake, like something pressing but fleeting had awoken him. Once awake, though, all he had was silence and stillness. His pulse quickened, his…

New World

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The flash of love was real, the life within her was real, and the main thing now was to climb.

White Room Trials

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November 24th-- Subject began to chew the flesh of his forearms. Researchers considered interfering but decided against it because subject was only bleeding slightly.

Hara-kiri

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unwrapping the gauze from her wrists....

Cantina

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It's good enough. Spacious. Then the cards but I am not for cards. Sasha directs the people, helping them, at ease and happy even. Strangers that have found a common denominator in games. A brotherhood and sisterhood I can't understand. I watch. I see green…

The Suicidal Juggler

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The man wore a bowler hat and stood on an open patch of grass, with a pyramid-shaped stack of baseballs at his feet.

How dare you?

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She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?

Gaza Suite

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Tender bodies sizzle on the grill.

Dancing on the Rhythm Bus–One Night after Leaving The Pyramid Club, 1991

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The next day I can’t recall at all, a waste, like the flash of twenty years of my life, faces that pass you like comets in some erogenous unnamed zone of night, but they got me in some isolation room with my wrists in leather restraints.

fake letters in reply

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I did do one nice thing for you

The Taming

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N-n-never screamscold a cat.

Arcana Magi Zero + Pure - c.5

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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.

Only Temporary

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It was the middle of May when I found out my teacher was screwing my mother.

The Book

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The following is a true story, or rather it is a true experience from the story of my life. Some say that just because something happens doesn’t really make it “true”.

Roy and Ray

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Roy Carver owned a big tire retreading outfit over on the Mississippi.

Twinsburg

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We knew this year would be different because we bought bikinis. We had never worn bikinis before. Our swimsuits had always been shiny one-pieces with stripes, or polka dots, or tiny yellow fish. Not this year. It was a hot summer and the department store was overly …

Your Last Rooster

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But his muscles fluttered and off he flew leaving the stink of barnyard on the sheets.

The colour! The power! The vision!

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... and photos of friends from former lives: the Wolfman; Drac; the Mummy; my ungrateful Son; even my gold-digging, coat-tailer ex-wife.

The History of Strands

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We cannot love the past...