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A story about convincing people to do things they don't want to do, written entirely in dialogue; originally published by CHEAP POP.
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All I wanted to do was lay in his smell, I had missed him and didn’t know it before now. He got up to urinate at one point and his absence was obscene to me.
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155421
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They could cram Rob inside the trunk and then drop him somewhere in the dingles.
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155361
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Mr. Wazzeldot has seven legs. He lives very comfortably. He likes to sit by the fire. There's a large cushion for a chair, and in the evenings, he sips his Bloody Marys. I know because I visit him…
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1553148
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an undercurrent of fear is running through my community
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155322
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The man and the woman looked at each other almost shyly. The man flicked his eyes away self-consciously and looked outside, seeing the clouds in the distance, the smaller buildings…
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15531411
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Tender bodies sizzle on the grill.
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15531511
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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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155354
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I was always bi-polar. I didn’t realize it was a mental illness until my divorce lawyer had the court order a psychiatric analysis.
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155354
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Outside it’s still raining. We’ve gone through three cans of Guinness each. I’m waiting for drunkenness to germinate so that I can take him home and fondle what I imagine will be a very slim dick. A Slim Jim. When I chuckle to myself, he thinks I’m still
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Wall talks to wall. One has a clock, the other a window, the third a cupboard with bandages etcetera. The fourth a door that opens and closes a thousand times a day.Chair is across from chair. Occasionally the one looking for care picks the wrong one to sit in, and there is…
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I contemplate the words that did not make it; the lost ones. The words deprived of their moment in the sun. These words. These words that are not part of the story.
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We’re more into the punishment that works its way in through the skin and coats the heart anonymously.
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155310
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Three teeth. You can pick them out if you hit pause just right. Probably not a person in the entire valley who hasn’t seen that video from the Eastern Cheerleading Finals. They even showed the tape on the eleven o’clock news in Scranton, my face ci
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155386
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If I seemed disappointed after our conversation,
then, for the record, that was never the case.
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155374
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Francesco needed a magnifying glass to read her little missives.
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155294
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Later, when she said she'd had miscarriages, I should have put it all together.
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Culloden County, MS - 1989 All Janine knew was the idiot had a gun. As to why he would ever need one was beyond her. He couldn't look dumber holding it, either. He was too small for it, or at least he looked that way to…
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Caster had always imagined the Consensus as a big room, as big as the world, filled with white space and people with quantum wings, flitting about, creating information. There were tinted bubbles for people to share for privacy, and the lights never went
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I am speeding on the highway at 2AM because no one is here...
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Instead, I get things like,
“Why can’t you find a nice man with cancer or a bum leg?”
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155276
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I keep attempting to start a correspondence with people / but they end up not being interested in me, / either that or I scare them away / because I usually begin with: / “Well, my favorite philosopher is Hegel..."
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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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1552158
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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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15521511
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Early Spring, 1075, Northumbria: Judith, too ashamed to speak, too angry to cry, waves her handmaiden away. She wants no food. Wind drives icy rain across the thickness of…
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Blend the dog a drink and sit down beside him and draw straws for regrets.
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155261
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I do not know what zinzins is, what a zinzins is, who zinzins is.
I do not want to know
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155231
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"seventy five degrees longitude
submerged
in holy rivers
out of my mind emerge
anointed paramahamsas"
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155254
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It was uncomfortable to realize people had agendas. That there could be invisible realities.
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