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chains across all the old doors
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157143
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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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157131
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Nothing is ever hoarded in our house, everything is eaten.
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157122
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157153
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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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157154
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I had the idea for a pageant for my obedience school at spring graduation
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157165
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in the deep dark of
a 2 a.m. atmosphere
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157131
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My mind raced at the endless possibilities one could die while driving to get a pizza.
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157141
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On our back porch, the tiki torches are lit and so am I.
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157022
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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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157087
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First he wrote it in wet cement at the intersection:
“Tad Loves Kimberley,”
with a big heart around it.
He was real proud, you could see.
But then later on that year, the graffiti began
appearing everywhere, on all the store walls:
“Kimberle
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1570103
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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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157054
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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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157094
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Later, when she said she'd had miscarriages, I should have put it all together.
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157074
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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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157000
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"Nothingness had had enough. Nothingness had become militant. It had bought a camouflage jacket. It grew an afro. It burned its bra. Nothingness was pissed, and it wanted its stuff back."
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157043
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You think about the first time you saw an axe
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157032
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His academic nightmare is set in an examination hall, where the student takes a seat at a folding table in the center of the room.
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1570126
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because you pay/
for it to matter to me.
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157077
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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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1570188
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Jesus is for sale. But he’s heavy.
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1569114
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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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156932
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Somniloquies rise like the drowned . . .
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156985
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It's all over now, Baby Blue...
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15691210
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156921
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They were really big, a lot larger and taller and stronger than he was. Sometimes they were holding him, all of him, high up in the air. Sometimes they would have him crawl in front of them. Often they put him into some form of holding cell.
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156987
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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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156998
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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"
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156921
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On the other pillow is a ladybird which escaped from a dream. It reminds me of when I was a tiny red polka dot. And then bigger, and other colours. And then… I stare at the ceiling, searching its soul for little things. The ladybird touches my arm, whispers…
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156977
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To tell the truth, I can’t complain. Look, lots of people have it tough. I don’t have it tough...
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