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"I want more grandchildren to spoil," the woman said. Will took a swig of beer at such moments. Maxine only answered with “someday” and looked over toward her husband. She knew it was his fault, didn’t really know why, but blamed him anyway.
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You think I don't know, that's your whole stupid problem. You don't believe in anyone. You must enjoy living in a dark lonely universe. I don't know if you know or not about the lights that live in your own head, but I believe …
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in the deep dark of
a 2 a.m. atmosphere
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If I seemed disappointed after our conversation,
then, for the record, that was never the case.
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There's a large tunnel that runs under my house. I can only estimate but it's not deep below the ground and that's what worries me.
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After lunch I left my office and trickled along like a slow leak, a notch above meandering; gravity had become a lateral force that pulled me forward.
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. . . he wants to organize society into its most efficient configuration with everyone thinking alike and willingly cooperating. Only then, he believes, can humanity reach its full potential.
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You think about the first time you saw an axe
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R just sent me a funny text:
Nice nice shit rainbows
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chains across all the old doors
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I had the idea for a pageant for my obedience school at spring graduation
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My mind raced at the endless possibilities one could die while driving to get a pizza.
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He is leaning back against a pillar watching the dancing; a spectator to joy – both planned and spontaneous – that’s unfolding in bodies fourteen and fifteen years old in front of him.
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They look like giant golden raindrops, or flying saucers, or peculiar fish out of their element
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The number is very large/
and perpetually changes//
as old stars fade, explode,/
or collapse into something not stars
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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.
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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"
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I would open an eye, waiting for it to absorb the scant light in the room, and I would see her on the far edge of the bed, the topography of her hips now a battlement to keep me at bay.
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My flash kept going off. The museum officials are strict about such matters. Sans flash! Sans flash, Monsieur!
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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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A woman posted a story on Fictionaut about discovering that her husband was a werewolf.
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because you pay/
for it to matter to me.
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will we begin again?We are a wheelFirst touchfirst kissfirst heatThey fade, disappear, come back again.Spokes in our wheel.When again shall we begin again?I hold you and feel myself spincaught in the whirlwind of thrill -the world, saturated with your scent.We hold each…
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The elders of the town will tell you that as soon the prophet mill arrived everything went to Hell. Before the process was streamlined, prophets used to be grown organically in the community. They popped up only where the ground was tilled and a prayer was planted. They…
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She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?
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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 supposed reluctantly that Princeton is soft as Macalester College is soft. A person could die just for having attended U.W.-Madison or Yale.
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—Mazel tov, schmazel tov!
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