1407 19 8
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...collapse of the human world. Go, cell phones!
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140733
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140777
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They say that inside the veins of every Bohemian
lies an entire army of dead alcoholics.
I suppose this is true of me too.
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140700
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We looked out into the darkness and then at our children. The dark of the forest was feeding them with ideas, filling their imaginations with things beautiful and things wicked.
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140743
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Some guys ride hills up and down,
Then stop to terrorize small towns.
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140652
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The cold and the ice’ve really stoked a fire in those old bones of his. He runs with the gait of a racer, front legs straight out—each extension producing a crack like Jack London spitting into the cold...
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140621
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Her eyeballs are made of fur, like plush little bumblebees at home in her sockets.
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1406179
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This will be the century of infinite sadness,/
sadder even than the Twentieth/
with its expansive catalog of horrors.
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1406117
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When Uncle Bob got sent to the Alzheimer's ward, the ladies licked their lips.
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1406127
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Mercury and Gemini disappointed.
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14061312
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Let's say maybe you're in a place your mind has never left, and let's say maybe it's Mississippi, and let's say maybe it's summer with kudzu throbbing green all around you, and let's say maybe she's a Sagittarius girl, standing in that driveway with her young breasts…
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140621
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Everything seems still, but it's not.
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140675
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You did it, like, "Oh, there's a train wreck... I can't look away from the tall, leggy brunette with salon styled hair." And we both know it was certainly Armageddon whenever a woman, any woman, with large breasts which encountered a low cut top.
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140611
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Everybody knew the McDonald’s at the Waterfront was selling theraflu stamp bags, and I guess I’d heard how bad it was for you—they’d had reports of dumbasses ODing on channel 2, 4, and 11—but it was a lot stronger than regular heroin and a lot cheaper...
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140676
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Steven was a hollow tree of a man — outwardly normal for a tired fortysomething, but empty inside. He lived alone in an old farmhouse that reeked of decomposition and Lysol, the previous tenant having left a dozen skinned raccoon carcasses in the attic.
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140654
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Two days ago, a friend of mine and I met at my house. She was a nurse, and could only visit my house very late at night when her shift ended. We don’t meet often because she is very busy saving lives and generally being a more useful human being in societ
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140600
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I felt the most afraid I’ve ever felt in my life, like all the unknowns in the universe were rushing through me at once.
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140611
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children love to push the gas up and down my limbs
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140661
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The old man is dead,
body propped in its cart
like the dead El Cid
strapped on his horse by Jimena
to save Valencia,
and yet...
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140521
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The Gropers of Prague were there, all around us, in spirit if not in fact. Was it KGB? Was it a ghost from my past? Or my own hand?
Stop guessing. It was Einstein himself. The KGB had taken him into custody somehow, though by what authority? All the
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14051610
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He trembled as she splayed open his palm...
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140566
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The ability to "see the ball" is a gift.
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140500
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Outside Natsume’s room, in the kitchen, Mrs. Saito and Emi prepared lunch. They were silent, but there were no feelings of negativity in the air.
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140544
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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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140511
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She clutched her fat rolls and tugged on a pant leg. "I'm so embarrassed! You caught me on a bad day!"
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1405115
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So I told her
think of it this way:
you’re my unlived life.
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140545
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Don’t break things, I add. And he looks at me like I’ve broken everything else.
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140566
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He thought she should have come with an owner’s manual
So he would know how to operate the equipment
It was definitely more than he bargained for
Or knew how to handle
She was too hot
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140553
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He can become anyone. If he wants. He'd rather not but it's not his choice.
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140552
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Last night I dreamt of water rose too high.
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