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"This story isn’t about you, even if it seems as though it is."
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What if Walt Disney had himself turned into a cartoon?
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One dinner party, two couples, three bottles of wine.
A moonbeam shone on the balcony. They felt a slight shifting under their chairs and heard a quiet scraping sound, then the apartment slid out from the building and lifted away.
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I didn't really know her. Yet, to me, she and her friends epitomized the local hip scene.
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299662
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The stainless steel tiles are cool upon the soles of her feet. Attendants have arranged all of her equipment, both digital and mechanical, including ink and needles. An overhead screen snaps into view, and his young muscled body is revealed.
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I had told myself that I would not cry. That I would hold on to my anger so tightly, there would be no space for pity.
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299422
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Tonight is our last night to dream.
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‘Do you know that tables aren’t actually solid’ he said suddenly. ‘I mean there’s loads of space in the molecules that make up wood or whatever. The only reason we can’t push through them is because of the force.’
Nearby the Android called up his light
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Black Panther Founder Bobby Seale has come to Yellow Springs, Ohio—a leafy village east of Dayton-- to carry his message of "the continuing human liberation struggle" to the 2002 graduating class of Antioch College.
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2993189
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I thought of driving over there across town, steering with buttered hands.
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We met because I hate the actor Bruce Willis.
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Dexter is a demon. He called me an over-accessorized hot spot yesterday evening and FYI: he didn’t even kiss me. I slammed the door and left my own apartment. I slept in my car.
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This test should not be a riddle, it's a simple yes/no. The answer should settle curiosity with an image. One line or two, plus or minus. I say something like this, and the customer service rep asks me to hold.Thing is, I know the answer. I'm moody. My breasts feel like…
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"...leafing through the
SEBRING 100 WALLAMATIC
record selector..."
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Their mother never teaches them to wipe front to back or to brush their teeth before bed.
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A solitary snake, his belly full, stretched out in the sun. His uncoiling swept sand and small rocks to the left and right. Ah, he thought, I have the power to move mountains from my path. See how the lowly earth makes way for my comfort.
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I lie here sleepless and wait for the moment when I will touch...
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They lie down in the prairie grass and clutch each other, imagine dying under fat clouds.
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Nobody has been able to use the washer and dryer for over a month now. Our neighbors have gone laundry crazy. They've become suds-a-holics. They wash everything. If it isn't nailed down, they wash it. Outboard engines, peculiar feelings, dominatrix boots, metaphors,…
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Are you there? It’s been so long since I had someone to talk to. Besides Oscar and Wilde, I mean. I feed them crumbs of bread. They’re my pet rats, my only friends. Besides you, of course. How kind of you to remember me! How shall I begin?
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Just stay at home woman, and do your job /
wash those dishes, mama, its what I pays you for
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We had them in our bunk beds in the trailer, before Becky fell and broke her neck.
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I tell my friend, the animal lover, not to get too near the panther's cage. "Why not?" she asks. "You'll see," I say.
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"Did you see that?!" exclaimed Judy jerking suddenly from her weathered Adirondack chair.
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Father makes sure the rum is safe, and still down, on his ass, he unscrews the top and takes a slug, and then a second one.
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The diagnosis was peculiar, the doctors agreed, / but so was the condition
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And in the end, when there was nothing left and we all had come to look like whispers, we ate the sun.
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I looked around the room at the shit, the dog bed, the dish. Lights burst behind my eyes, knees weak. “Fuck…” I bent over and puked.
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Lupe says stealing is bad whether it's from a Baptist or a Catholic.
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She slouched on one hip, scribbled on the order pad. “How do you like your eggs?”
“I like them very much.”
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