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What People Do With Their Hands

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I said, “If this rose doesn't grow another petal in twenty minutes, I'm burning down the neighborhood.” “Just let it go,” said Paul. “No,” I said. “That's what's happening right here.” “You'll try again next…

THE BOX

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Doppio Macchiato

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Sulawesi-Kalosi brews bitter and watery without proper care.

Me and Lord Byron at Last Call

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Byron's achievement, certainly quite remarkable, is to have raised the drunken monologue to a literary form. Edmund Wilson

The Ageing Beaver

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This was just noise now – pure, raw noise, grabbed from their throats and flung high by some sharp claws of violence buried in their breasts. Even from his third floor apartment, they sounded like they were right outside his window now. It was if they h

Robot Museum

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ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF ROBOTS!

shakey

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You held my hand when I hit the ground and told me the shakes would start soon.

The Gowanus. Expressway, not canal

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in their hunt for desires not felt on either side of the crescent / called Gowanus

left handed

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under your skin the moon is alive

Heirloom Pendant of an Ash-Tracked Snow

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If I do not hear you leaving by the door... The nearness here of this yet questions when I know you will not come so back again, Nowise the same as you were there before. My own reflection, centred at its core On knowing each …

It Isn’t Personal. It’s Business

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because you pay/ for it to matter to me.

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.3 - c.5

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The old man moved on an automatic wheelchair. He stopped just short of Sora. He waited for her to move, but all she did was shed one tear.

Curfew

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The Houston police devised a punishment for the adulterous thespian that would not hurt the nights or household income of his French young wife.

Sequins

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A person is entitled to what she thinks and feels. A person can have all the thoughts and feelings she wants.

A Quiz Show Audition

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However could anyone get Joyce scholarship mixed up with physical anthropology?

The Train

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"You'll be alright! Just pinch your nose!"

Seascape

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1. Walking here with you on these narrow strands of clean air & imagination

Begonia {part four}

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Mezereon smiled his biggest smile at the princess, but to her it looked quite frightening; rows of gleaming, pointed teeth were what she saw, with wispy tendrils of dark gray smoke still wheedling their way out between them.

even from the moon

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even from the moon our planet’s truth has not been seen.

The Vote

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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.

Betrayal

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Betrayal of course is the great human crime. As I found out when . . . .

Glue

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There is no cement stronger than the one holding a miserable couple together.

Philip Guston Painting of the Courtroom

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While the head of the KKK stands by for the next order, ready to mete out punishment, and smoking a cigar. They are so efficient, like ex-Nazis.

Bestiary

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A woman posted a story on Fictionaut about discovering that her husband was a werewolf.

Sisters

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What Did We Fight Over?

Neediness, Incarnate

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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 [...]

Nine Elephants and an Ass

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Nine sated elephants and an ass sit around a decimated Thanksgiving table discussing the state of the union over the hacked to bits carcass of a twenty-three pound turkey. Two years in to The Great Communicator's Lame Duck term and the nine elephants, whose…

Mob

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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.

Sweet Sorrow

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He sat at the bar and waited for her. He looked at the noon drinkers with indifferent eyes.

Odysseus as Superintendent

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No king of Ithaca, but of each/ whining, banging, dust–clouded island/ of focused, physical work