1460 6 4
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The cat wound itself around Megan’s neck, its purring curling through Megan’s consciousness. She was the cat and then herself, both things at once.
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1460 5 2
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Roy Carver owned a big tire retreading outfit over on the Mississippi.
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1460 7 4
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Each memory of Fall reminds me of the harvest; Surely this is not a thought to turn the thought of dying. Black the turning point, there is a glint at the tip of the wing: Perhaps it rises from its cinders as I wish when I was waning, …
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1460 7 5
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I am no different to her, living seven days ahead
of myself, looking forward to looking back,
as we Irish do so fondly
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1459 6 4
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We became The World Famous Shadow Puppet Theater because we thought that the best way to become world famous was to act as though we already were.
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From room to room, neither closet nor drawer contained any remnant of pleasant memory.
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I smoked my cigarro under his watchful eye. We were never able to make too much conversation even when I was teaching him at Educenter. Now that David had opened his own school, Evert had come to learn with him because it was much more affordable, but he
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1459 9 4
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The man's dog slipped away one night. He left soon after.
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1459 9 4
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Later, when she said she'd had miscarriages, I should have put it all together.
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1459 0 0
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Dominic would show them all. That stupid "Welcome to Bessemer" sign was his. It was the pride of the whole damn town. No other target would do.It was the dead of night, and Dominic rode his bike to the town line. He briefly considered spray painting something vulgar over…
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ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF ROBOTS!
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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.
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I imagine you in the States,
pushing stacks of work papers and our memories
to the side, sense your enjoyment that
you won’t see the worry of your
behavior reflected in my eyes again.
That you can buy and bang and be
whomever you want,
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The pit of my stomach was bottoming out, this lurching sort-of feeling one experiences when one has coasted WELL OVER an abyss and has no way of finding one's bearings . . .
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1459 5 3
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Most times a vertical word balloon floats before him.
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“Not all the birds are to be trusted, and there are other spies more evil than they are.” —J.R.R.Tolkien This may well be our own about time, time to walk out that comfortable front door forever into danger. Nothing will ever…
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1459 17 10
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I packed food for a lifetime, clothes and boots, all the guns, and the audio of our poetry...
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1459 0 0
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Ever since they switched from paper scripts to the little rubber balls branded with code I have been inundated with sickness.
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faith in gravity/permitted them to extol/the guillotine's blade.
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The universe will fuck you over in the end./
That’s what it does, what it’s good at—
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1458 2 2
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From my place, down here amongst the earth, we have many names for you.
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the swarthy terror network
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I’ll sit up
all night,
I don’t mind.
I don’t have to
Go to work,
Or
Wake up early.
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1458 7 5
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The easiest and most legal way to pick up a woman is to take a single, writer friend with you to a bar. While there, look for the woman you are interested in. Her? Are you sure? Okay then. Next, tell your writer friend that the woman keeps looking at him when he's…
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1458 2 1
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Forgetting her inhibitions, she dove for him.
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1458 9 7
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1458 0 0
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"You look awfully familiar," said one of the corrupt oil company execs to the dark-haired man with the sunglasses and big sideburns.
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1458 0 0
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Street by street, non-combatants ran away. Each one passed by the Society and law enforcement screaming.
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1458 3 2
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She flew through the air, linen skirt billowing around her. Below, her buckled bicycle was taking a different route. Less aerodynamic than she, its trajectory was brief, crashing into the ditch. Elspeth kept on flying. Time slowed, and expanded
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