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There were security guards running all over the place. Campus police cars, with lights flashing, at various locations in the distance. Sora gripped her books tight as they saw their dormitory building ahead.
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I don't like listening to the radio anymore. Nothing is clearer than a live voice with something to say. Give me a big field with no one around but the birds and I will send the bees away from me. I will deny all bugs to buzz.
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vampires seem not to be victims of drought . . .
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She had a face like a frog: wide mouth, prominent eyes – and when she touched him, her fingers felt clammy on his skin.
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theme songs for concentration camps!?
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He saw his mother standing over him, and he called out to her for help, but she only laughed and faded into the paper towel dispenser.
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"..squeezing her eyes and mouth tightly."
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In exactly 100 words, I review the cracks between my keyboard keys.
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1. It started coming down in flakes. The room was warm and the windows were double insulated, but she was naked and her body was being dressed in snow. He stood over her with the spray can. Maybe you can be the Christmas tree this year. You won't keep me till Christmas she…
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Chipmunk SongChipmunk workin' in the roadside weedsLookin' all around for nuts and seedsSmall bird callin' from a hickory treeAll's right with the world and all's right with meChipmunk searchin' for nuts and seedsLucky fellow finds all he needsAs for me all I desireIs a…
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Strength & Luck By Nonnie Augustine There was no food in Ireland for young Patrick Kennedy who'd known nothing of blooming. So he crossed the wintry sea in a bucking, groaning boat to Liverpool. Once the damn ship docked in…
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I remember a big Walgreen’s Drug store (maybe in Elmhurst, or Oakbrook Center?) and this shopping expedition we went on. That’s where you bought your first Dust Buster, I believe (or was this another man?) Anyway, you made me carry everything. We didn’t
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I asked her how she came to be at our little party. We all knew she was an intern. What would she want with the likes of us, the orderlies and techs and strays? She just held up Ed's flyer and said, "Why not?" But she didn't look happy. We fired up and someone said, "Let's…
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In his dreamlike state the pianist turned into a preying mantis.
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He injected her with a sedative to keep her still. He projected himself into her narcotic dream, a small bar with tango playing from a jukebox. They were dancing.
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It was the coward's way out, to commit suicide. And yet, one had to be brave to attempt it.
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I've got an appointment to see my shrink next Wednesday. She's pretty sharp. Not bad looking, either.
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Life is not always quixotic.
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Sounds terrific, but are there any strings attached?
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I have the right to remain silent. If I waive that right everything I say can and will be used against me like a razor dragged across my neck.
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We deny one another, here,/
as long as it’s plausible.
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The Street singer gathers up his coins
and counts to a hundred before
The last string stops vibrating
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A familiar ritual by now...
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Do you want this, you ask, and hand me a blue silk shirt of hers
with small yellow flowers. I'm afraid to say no,
in case it makes you remember all over again.
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And soon you'll be walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
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Mice dreams are a reality ...
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The woman in green doesn’t want to encounter the meter maid who is actually a man and so waits to one side at the newspaper racks as if purchasing a paper while that person writes the parking ticket (this city needs that money) and drives away in his li
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