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1. Poor grammar does not sleep. 2. We'll never finish every idea we have. 3. No matter how hard you try, you still might make it into my book
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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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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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“106 more miles,” she said.
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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his mother brought him to me/ when he was very young/ maybe a few months old,/ born in arizona july.
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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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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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Saturday morning, and I’m pushing the old truck a little, chasing retreating bands of cloud shadows along a winding hilltop road.
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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
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Throughout breakfast Quebec kept watching this investor fellow, John Lytle. She tried remembering something about him, about when they'd first met. Her first impressions were very nearly always correct. But all she could bring to memory now was that it
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[SOME PEOPLE ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS.]
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159111
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Published in Exquisite CorpseI…
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How long have you been waiting for me? How long?
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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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The sun was at the edge of the earth. The shadows around Ayane and her friends brought the creature closer.
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Closed gate without fences
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"You look awfully familiar," said one of the corrupt oil company execs to the dark-haired man with the sunglasses and big sideburns.
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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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My father's cousin is Salem the Dead.
Famed, an infant Lazarus of Libya,
he was brought lifeless from the womb,
yet awoke to the chill of a mortuary slab.
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Von Meckel had us all go out and paint this huge red square around the Red Diaper Baby factory. Then he held a big naming rally, at noon, during our lunch break. We weren’t allowed to eat our sandwiches. There was all this pomp and circumstance. We were
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One day when they were sitting on the curb together at 4th Street and Mendocino Avenue in Santa Rosa and Joe was calling out to passers by in a singsong voice, “Spare change for cigs,” she had persuaded them that they should try to join the circus.
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This is the most frustrating kind of amnesia.
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It was all things considered a particularly odd sight, which Annalise did not know how to handle.
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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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Gravity? What does that have to do with writing or with this improbable tether of blue marbles?
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"Why, before the summer has passed
You won’t remember her name. . ."
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The leaves were meaningless because they were no longer connected to the trees.
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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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