1576 10 8
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1576146
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R just sent me a funny text:
Nice nice shit rainbows
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157600
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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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157672
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Underwater your eyes collapseand your feet touch decayed leavesand soft sand at the lake's bottom, the texture of tenderized flesh,maybe an intestineYou spring to the surface tofind your skull met by waterflies, and their limbstweak your peaceOn the shore your…
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157631
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My mind raced at the endless possibilities one could die while driving to get a pizza.
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157630
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1575114
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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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157522
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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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157595
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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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157544
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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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157532
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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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15751410
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A woman posted a story on Fictionaut about discovering that her husband was a werewolf.
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1575126
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because you pay/
for it to matter to me.
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15751411
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chains across all the old doors
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157577
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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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157553
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Rose lifted her 55-year-old legs until they were perpendicular to the bed and admired how girlish they looked. It gave her the sexy legs of a 20-year old, if the morning light was right and she squinted a bit.
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157554
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I had the idea for a pageant for my obedience school at spring graduation
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157565
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in the deep dark of
a 2 a.m. atmosphere
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157485
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It's all over now, Baby Blue...
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157497
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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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157487
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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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157484
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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.
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157474
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Mythical Itch and the Unicorns
Working Late
Jacuzzi Floozy
One Erection
Diego Rivera’s Poncho
Frieda’s Moustache
Avalanche
Babushka Dolls
Photographic Mammary
Drool
Sir Gruntsalot
Uber Rubber
Iota Pie
Elder Geese
Ladylike
Rud
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157498
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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"
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157432
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“Life is on life’s terms,” she told me once. Her arm, wrapped in clear cellophane, was freshly adorned with a green-pigmented sand-dollar: a living shell.
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157488
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My favorite lie is that he'd escaped the South Tower before it collapsed. Smoke inhalation erased his way home. Mine's better than mother's version: a stranger hurled herself onto him. The truth is when they stopped search and rescue, mother told father, Go. Even dead, his…
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157476
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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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157463
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It’s that laugh of hers that gets me...
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157321
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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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157333
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They look like giant golden raindrops, or flying saucers, or peculiar fish out of their element
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