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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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160230
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…she smelled of sunflowers.
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1602117
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BECAUSE to fuck is an incidental REASON to be here
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160294
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In this lab, where I work 40 hours a week,
live the ghosts of questions asked.
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160200
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This is the most frustrating kind of amnesia.
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160271
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There was an empty box on his facebook page asking to be filled in with, “What’s on your mind?” He thought. "Hair?"
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160265
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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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160241
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"His middle name is Valentine, and when asked about it, he isn't sure why."
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160133
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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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160164
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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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160100
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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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1601266
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Closed gate without fences
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160162
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It was only two days before Christmas. Jonathan remembered his mother crying.
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160171
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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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160170
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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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160100
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Crack open the roof-- raise the battery on a platform with chains
up into the lightning
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160132
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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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160198
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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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1601107
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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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160165
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They acquire him in a bar that is famous for its shipwrecks.
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160176
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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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160051
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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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160020
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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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160000
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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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160021
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I ran for the car, heart pounding in my chest, feverish. I jerked the door open and dropped into the seat of the Audi S5. The ignition fired and the car purred to life. I dropped it into gear and hit the gas, tires spinning, gravel spraying. The treads caught on the hot …
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160022
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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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160052
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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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160021
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The leaves were meaningless because they were no longer connected to the trees.
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160031
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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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