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1. Walking here
with you
on these narrow
strands
of clean air
& imagination
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Some claimed seeing him that first time in the grocery store staring in at the pints of Haagen-Dazs, his breath fogging the glass as his head rested against the heavy freezer doors, stinking in his Sasquatch suit. The second time he was…
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in the deep dark of
a 2 a.m. atmosphere
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The Rapture comes and goes unannounced in carbonated soda bubbles spicing the air.
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The supervisor, sensing the fear in me, pats my hand and says "Never you mind! This is normal in the tomato. Every few days we rile up, make sauce, and regrow again. Have you ever been in spaghetti sauce before?"
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"Do you know how long they've waited for you?" Elle asked. "At first, it was every day after school, waiting at the windows. They wouldn't go play with friends because they wanted to be here, in case you returned. Then, they used to believe you would come
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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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the swarthy terror network
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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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...when they decided to teach her a lesson, it was with particular vigor and vitriol...
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This was just noise now – pure, raw noise, grabbed from their throats and flung high by some sharp claws of violence buried in their breasts. Even from his third floor apartment, they sounded like they were right outside his window now. It was if they h
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My Aunt's husband liked to dress up like a clown
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the wind mistook your arms for wings
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I can hear the echoes clearly. They are distinct and crisp, almost as though they're all on exact trajectories to me from their final bounce, without any interference. Each sound, while unintelligible, seems to fit perfectly and expectantly into my ears
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The Houston police devised a punishment for the adulterous thespian that would not hurt the nights or household income of his French young wife.
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After my vasectomy, I got a T-shirt with a picture of an orange on it. It said "All Juice, No Seeds."
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Although I think we can easily work it out because we are not here in the Yale graduate school, and diction is the theme of the story. Diction is a choice in language.
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I’ve got a full day ahead of me; I have to write a brief in Lipshutz v. Fredbird, a property damage claim against the St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot for breaking a fan’s glasses as part of his routine.
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Somniloquies rise like the drowned . . .
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It's all over now, Baby Blue...
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I found the hand eight months ago, after I planned to grow a meadow of tiny yellow blossoms in my yard.
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You think about the first time you saw an axe
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My wife broke the news to me. She enjoyed it, too, I'm certain of that. It was a juicy piece of gossip.
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…she smelled of sunflowers.
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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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Hissing through the opening, the spirits have no place.
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