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With a roar and short burst of flame, the dragon awoke, startled.
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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
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The old lady from next door had been really quiet for the last few days.
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I hold them to the light...
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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Its intelligence won’t be/
diminished when you take/
a bone saw to its cranium
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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…
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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.
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unwrapping
the gauze from her wrists....
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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…
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That contraption he’d invited her to pedal, somebody oughta market one of those. The closer you got the harder it got, and her feet kept slipping off the pedals. It was maddening.
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She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?
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Tender bodies sizzle on the grill.
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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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I did do one nice thing for you
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N-n-never screamscold a cat.
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It was the middle of May when I found out my teacher was screwing my mother.
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ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF ROBOTS!
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There is no cement stronger than the one holding a miserable couple together.
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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”.
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The flash of love was real, the life within her was real, and the main thing now was to climb.
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Roy Carver owned a big tire retreading outfit over on the Mississippi.
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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 …
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But his muscles fluttered and off he flew
leaving the stink of barnyard on the sheets.
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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.
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We cannot love the past...
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The questions we ask ourselves define who we are as a culture. “What is the meaning of life?” “Is there a God?” “Does anybody really know what time it is?” “Where the hell did I put my car keys?” To see what…
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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.
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my maddening pyromaniac,/ you're burning up my heart/ so open up your broad-toothed mouth/ and let me pour the ashes in.
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