1527 7 5
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TV and power cord valorized in dust,/
wires and digital guts unimpaired, I’d guess . . .
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152799
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I’m from the Land of Sky Blue Waters. I grew up in a lake. I think I’m half fish.
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152752
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Hissing through the opening, the spirits have no place.
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152700
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They were working on the factory floor when they died, the auspices of mayhem filtering out to a host of ravens gleaning the neighboring fields. Clouds of them fled the scene around the time of the incident turning the day into twilight…
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152721
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It was all things considered a particularly odd sight, which Annalise did not know how to handle.
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152786
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If I seemed disappointed after our conversation,
then, for the record, that was never the case.
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15261212
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Not only half-full/
but stress-fractured
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1526103
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Palms planted firmly against his temples, Travis paced the room like a caged animal. Giant black bats screeched in his brain, their pointy wings scraping at the edges of his cranium.
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152600
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Gravity? What does that have to do with writing or with this improbable tether of blue marbles?
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152643
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. . . the empiricism of the mechanical had wound tight into her, lessons her few calendars could never impart without aid from sundials, hourglasses, clocks.
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152633
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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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152600
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I'm a jogger of these parts, but I've yet to discover a dead body, or even dead body parts, or worse yet, discover that my parts will be discovered by some unfortunate jogger.
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152651
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152620
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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152665
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What a nation!
First we lost our money
Now we’ve lost our funny
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152600
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Megumi paused for a moment, understanding Mrs. Akamatsu’s concern, but looking back at the Society, she shook her head in rejection.
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152611
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“It felt like the space under my skin had been filled with desert sand. I did not open my eyes for my body was covered with the dust. A camel could have walked over me and not noticed. I needed to wipe my eyes before I could open them and my body was froz
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152696
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Erased. Like chalk across my body,
a fine powder of forgetfulness,
with a few swipes --- all those names
and faces, gone. The letters burned.
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152677
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152622
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Suppose Eve, strolling through the sunlit Garden, had not stumbled on that particular Tree at all, the wily serpent twined in its lower branches?
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152686
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...the scream and the face...
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1525710
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From room to room, neither closet nor drawer contained any remnant of pleasant memory.
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152542
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Anatoly Gringovitch was listening to the dress rehearsal of Hausenstockmann’s Constellations at Auditorium Rainier III in Monte Carlo.
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152578
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Sulawesi-Kalosi brews bitter and watery without proper care.
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152553
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Buyers of freelance writing have a well-deserved reputation for responding slowly, thereby increasing your pleasure in much the same way that the Pointer Sisters longed for a slow hand.
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152554
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The coin, so little, the watch chain, the youth, the fading softening speech, each hand and finger, the panic modeled on your own eyes, the ashtray, certain stumps along the way, the long distance, the odd feather, the jazz rope gone,…
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152552
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"I found a grey pubic hair the other day."
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152531
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When our body falters, deny us rest.
When our minds crack under the strain, forbid us sanity.
When we are too tired to fight give us war.
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152530
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Blend the dog a drink and sit down beside him and draw straws for regrets.
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152531
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7 — IT'S HARD TO HAVE FRIENDS WHEN YOU'VE NEVER HAD ANY AND ARE STILL FUCKING WHINING ABOUT IT — Once he learned he didn't “bring anything to the table,” Worthless Veikass hit on the notion of [...]
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