1491 10 4
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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.
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A university student who triggers a flash mob in the heart of Silicon Valley to prove her hacking creds finds herself in deep trouble when the colorful members of Anonymous Hackers prove their hacking creds to her.
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1491 7 4
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I don’t know what to do with all this money flowing from my books.
It’s burning a hole in my literary pocket.
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1491 6 5
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Resting bitch face strikes again.
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1491 13 10
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You should never have believed your daddy when he said a man with half a dog was better off than a man with no dog at all.
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Catherine, after another haunted, bewildering morning wondered if there might be a way to hide from her nightmares. Was there a way to trick them? Shouldn't she try? She drove over the bridge, something she didn't often do, to buy…
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1491 10 8
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The best thing about being a cowboy is the cows.
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1491 11 7
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BECAUSE to fuck is an incidental REASON to be here
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1491 3 1
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Nothing is ever hoarded in our house, everything is eaten.
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1491 7 7
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A new philosophy stirs in its surgery.
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1491 1 1
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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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1490 11 4
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He is leaning back against a pillar watching the dancing; a spectator to joy – both planned and spontaneous – that’s unfolding in bodies fourteen and fifteen years old in front of him.
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1490 5 5
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There was a certain romanticism in it, the salty old man sidling up to me at a bar, rhapsodizing in a slurred stream of conscious about the state of the world, the country, the state of his own heart. He didn't have an eye patch nor beard, nor was he…
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1490 5 3
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“You’ve put all my anorexic friends on the table nearest the buffet,” I say. “And all my bulimic friends on the other side of the room away from the buffet and the toilets.”
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1490 6 2
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It was only two days before Christmas. Jonathan remembered his mother crying.
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1490 3 1
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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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1490 6 5
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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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1490 3 1
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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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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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She is too stylish to be crazy, is what the migrant probably thinks. And he's right.
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1490 2 1
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My buddy had been in the computer business, a systems analyst. Surely there would be some mention of him online. But there was nothing. Nothing, that is, until I saw the obituary.
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1490 9 7
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Out in the world again, pretending to belong.
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1490 2 1
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Are you a hostile person who gets into trouble when you express your anger? Would you like to annoy the hell out of people and get away with it?
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1490 2 2
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He began life as we all do, an almost indeterminate blob. Ultrasound sonar plotting his outline on screen. The echo chambers of his beating heart dispelling the ectoplasmic impression of mere ghostly existence. His rudimentary …
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1490 9 4
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In this lab, where I work 40 hours a week,
live the ghosts of questions asked.
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1490 10 7
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For you have waited. And waited and waited. And soon your slice of bread will be ready.
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1489 9 5
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The world doesn'tend just becauseyou want it to.Bonus poems:The Poet(Series 1)by Darryl PricePoet in a TreeYeah, well, it's not up here either. Although the everything and nothing view is nice. Only because it doesn't have any abandoned cars in it. I'm…
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I loved without marriage and the men loved without divorce and we loved a twenty-four-year-old eating and how gracious she shone over a tame bottle of beer.
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“So, do you still think I'm hot? I mean, do you think men still find me attractive?” Jenny asks. This is never a good question to answer, much less entertain. I know this as surely as I know anything. Still, let's break it down. I am married. Jenny is…
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1489 5 2
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“I would like to keep my head, at least for a few more nights. Didn't you say we were gonna have sex one of these days? Isn't that in the manual?”
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