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Four Sieges

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Nicole knows that Deirdre is winding up for the weekly pitch, practicing the line in her mind.

Passage

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She didn't want to let go of the crumpled tissue she had been holding all this time, as it is wrong to litter, but she finally did, and felt free. Released. Bad. Naughty. Almost orgasmic.

The Ice Cream Mantra

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Chant the ice cream mantra. Prance the do dah day ballet. Trot the t-bone tango two-step. Dance the livelong day away.

Introduction and Apology Written Against the End of Time

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They articulate my failings as a human being./ They articulate my greater rage at human beings// here for such a short time and at the precipice already

Arcana Magi Zero Arc 2 - c.2

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Alysia and Megumi made their magic circles, but they stopped short when they saw a young man at the end of the street. Their eyes trembled and their feet moved them back without thought.

Beverly Abbey

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Downton Abbey and The Beverly Hillbillies. They're practically the same show.

a can of emotional worms

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Is any person is worthy of the kind of ache?

No. Please, No . . .

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["LIKE SAND THROUGH THE HOURGLASS ... SO ... ARE THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES!"]

Shakespeare's Dark Lady -- John Hudson (review disguised as fiction)

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William Shakespeare (a surname that meant "wanker" back in the day, by the way)

The Human Resource

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I am a human resource, batteries not included

Darcy Eastland

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To him the younger women, contemporaries of the bride, all sounded as if they were breathing helium.

Peggy Guggenheim Visits an Operation

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To pay the bill.

Spitwads

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Two types coexist- the sanguine/ and exsanguinated./ My skin is cool/ and pale as moonlight

Calling All Feathers, Do You Hear

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These little things, they are the hopes We were waiting for, they are everywhere. I made this one just for you. Call them feathers. Call them roses. You'll always See them if you need them. These Little things carry the good news…

Truth Or Consequence - 2

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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.

STIFF NOW! The Early Embalming Craze Sweeping the Nation!

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Originally designed for para-morticians and pre-professional undertakers, the Protocol has now been certified and approved for over-the-counter purchase and is completely safe (check local regulations for sales to minors: not approved for veterinary use).

Radical Middle-Aged Cake Acceptance

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Cake is not the enemy.

Bloody Knuckles

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My tongue kept me from fitting in with the latinos. I understood little Spanish and spoke even less. No one really believed I was Mexican, and they kept me at a distance. Or maybe I kept them at a distance. Living with

Excerpt from "Change" where a 1963D Quarter is followed for a hundred years.

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May 1890 Rifle, COLORADO Only pressure can change one thing into another. In terms of time, the…

The Naming

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we name invasive species,

The Judge's Wife Part 4

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—Well, are you having an affair with Jack Mahler?

Word Balloon

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Most times a vertical word balloon floats before him.

Sickness

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She wasn't even trying to live.

Wintering

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Winter makes me reconsider.

For Fathers Day 2014

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Divine guidance. That's why Dad used a blowtorch to set the jug on fire, its contents the “Devil's elixir.”

The Upstart Apprentice of Golden Mean

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...I am taut...my ankles ache...

If You Want To Work At Club Arseni

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I hev my girls shave.

Self Inventory

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Life, like a kite string, is slipping out of your hands

Malaise

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Endurance wears the soul thin.// The hour to succumb ticks ever closer.

Morphine

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Until the ivy hides me in