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It comes to me at night, the monster. I don't even realize it's in the room until I hear it breathing behind me. It reaches out its hands and places them on my shoulders. Its fingers are furry and soft, but strong. They grasp the muscles on either side of my neck, and I…
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...the relatives didn't seem nearly as fucked up as she thought they would be considering...
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Come to the park and swing with me, sing with me.
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just before my break,/ he came on the line,/ old and slow with computers now/ but wanting a discount/ he'd been told he qualified for.
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When he leans back from the telescope through which he had been looking, he sports a derby and a Hercule Poirot moustache.
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Magdalena White Herrington praised the lucky stars who’d sent her the Klonakilty ghosts.
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This was the anniversary of the chairs. He would celebrate tonight for the chairs, and the chairs would welcome him.
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Marcy was not herself today, her mother said when the school called. She was under the weather and she could not play with the other children. Marcy's mother began to suspect that her daughter was not herself very early on that day. Walking up the stairs Dolores…
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At some point we all reach the end point/
of something. Something important/
if only to our fragile self esteem.
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Fear the air and fear the fire./
Fear the land and fear the water./
Creation is out to get you, speck,
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Alysia’s eyes turned to Megumi where her sister nodded. Alysia took a deep breath and stepped back. There was a moment’s hesitation, but she felt Megumi’s hand gripping her wrist.
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They could occupy the space//
left by creatures larger and more/
evolved.
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I don't need to be toldhow natural you are, not here.I'm reminded every singletime I open my eyes.What I want to know iswhere have you gone? Whyhas it taken you so verylong to return? But Iknow the answer. You aresomewhere fighting for your dearlife. It's what we all do--in…
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Zusman snored on the sofa as Motel gathered his belongings in the dark. He moved quietly as had become his custom in the mornings. Initially he had tried not to wake his nephew on his way to work in the…
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This time the bag's bigger/than the boy and the door.
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Who owns the moon? What title search/
could ever make a claim?
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Of flowers there Are none In June No sun Upon my cheek The gentle breeze Stirs me not The smiles They cloud my vision Birds they Sing their songs But I hear Them not When tears Rain down My heaven.
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I looked down at Earth and imagined this porn star who’d asked for my help.
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"the dark velvet slide of the tongue."
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As air warms and warm/
winds stir, green becomes the force/
that surges the plains.
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After the Tokyo experience, Frank and Michiko decided that when she went on extended tours, Frank would accompany her.
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Have you heard this yet? The daughter flew home to care for the mother, whose pump is still tick ticking—though now with aid—which means she leaves the kitchen when the microwave clicks on.
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“Okay,” I say, “but my point is the only way you’d ever know if someone really loved you is if they put their life on the line when it counts. Otherwise you gotta take their word for it.”
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in a willow garden lush shade/drapes dark the young woman's small house/with the lone window, the white door . . .
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Each had jostled and laboured for his or her place upon the blunt outcrop, in the cold persistent darkness, where the outcrop was merely something that had fallen and not quite been washed away.
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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.
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—Jesus, that bastard has everyone in his pocket.
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