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Shhh. I am here. Otillie Augustine, from Trieste, an Italian city to you, but when I lived it was part of Austria. Such things as who flies their flags over a city? Not so important after all, after all the losses and the victory speeches. These were not…
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1471108
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I never took more than a few pills at a time, just enough for a treat on Friday night.
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147132
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#2 The Typewriter Inside You by Harmon Gentle—I found this one at a garage sale when I was 15. Intended as a manual for sharpening one's typing skills, by the third chapter it became obvious that Mr. Gentle's sanity had slipped, and that rather than mastering the…
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147142
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I am fair game that will be hunted and eaten, cutting its edge with Satan's tears from six eyes.
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1471105
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“Now,” my friend said. “Tell us about earthquakes. Can we expect one anytime soon?”
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147163
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I looked down at Earth and imagined this porn star who’d asked for my help.
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147033
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The shit just doesn't want to come off.
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1470910
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When the dark shadows of his limp eyes told us life was slowly seeping away, stolen by his stroke, his wife signed the “DO NOT RESUSCITATE” order and, tearfully leaving the room, she turns, asking a final question, “Think a needy family could use his…
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147020
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“Tell me a story,” he said, toying with his top hat, running his fingers along its brim.
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147000
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The rocking chair will bite your toes.
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147072
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This is what it is to feel yourself forget.
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147042
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147000
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Keiko covered her arm while holding the staff. She looked up and saw morning breaking through the sky, but something was unusual about it.
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1470116
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Five evangelists in bathing suits
baptize a man
while green chilies
roast on a Ferris wheel rotisserie
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147012
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she goes jogging with the feet of an angel the sound of crunching leaves like wrapping paper torn open to reveal an expensive doll and the light in her mother's eyes.
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147064
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... he could feel the pointed picket spears.
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147011
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Colton nods, without words, understanding the significance of every word that the Old Man has uttered, knowing that in the end, given enough time, we all go down that lonely corner, to embrace the darkness, wishing to be cured of our sentiments.
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147062
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A white room is empty but for you, a card table and a chair.
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147065
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I was low on carburetor / oxygen and my fraud protection / had just expired.
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147000
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My eyes don’t close but hers are shut tight, and something inside tells me that to this girl, I could be absolutely anyone.
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147021
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I am exceeded / by a leaf
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146900
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The little clapboard church sits stiffly in the sun. It's steeple marking time with it's shadow on the sidewalk. It is the last place most people would think to look for a vampire, but I am sure that one is in there. Contrary to popular opinion, there
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146921
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Ben was dreaming of sex with Claudia. But, in his dream, he could hear Dan Arris calling his name and pounding on a door. The fear of Dan Arris was pushing out the delights of Claudia.
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146942
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who can quite say/when careless talk & confidence/slips into that other charged thing/so minimal at first
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146911
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When flash and bang merge you are, according to the manual, in deep do-do.
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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
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