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“There is a fine line between love and hatred.” This was what his closest friend, Bob Sanders, had said to him many years ago. And it had finally and irrevocably proven to be so.
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They waited not a moment longer than was necessary But moved right in and
Began their loathsome ch
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I am not responsible for any nightmares this piece may cause for all you mice lovers!
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No one commented on her altered appearance, although Will in Accounts said he quite liked her hair like that, so she assumed that no one could see the snakes. But she still felt self-conscious, exposed. She had to remember not to talk to them when she was…
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The young boy woke to the sound of laughter. He blinked himself out of deep sleep and allowed…
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After becoming single at age 62, I joined an online dating site. After a year of perusing profiles and meeting men for coffee, staying single is starting to look better and better to me. But I've stayed on the site, in part for the pure enjoyment of…
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1. On the morning of her eighteenth birthday, Eve woke to find herself transformed into a gigantic chess piece made of zeros and ones.2. Eve gazed so long at her smartphone that she found herself falling into it.3. She fell for a time that may have been short or long or…
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Meanwhile it was four o'clock in the morning, Pacific time. Seven o'clock eastern. The cat was busy chasing imaginary mice around the hammock—at least Manuel hoped the mice were imaginary. He loaded the next digital images onto the screen. It seemed to
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Astrid did not smoke. Astrid did not drink. Astrid was not overweight. Astrid did not live a sedentary lifestyle; her whole life, aside from shopping, was working out. Astrid had no history of breast cancer or other female cancers in her family. Astrid di
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the mother tells her child the flashes at the horizonare fireworks, not bombs, so he will not be afraid.at night he curls by the door or else he follows her to a different place. he is quiet, then. as if he knows the secret challenge.better if he and all the others…
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I’m not ready for football. I’m not ready for it, but I live in a southern town that worships at its altar more devoutly than those suicidal beauties in James Wright’s great poem.
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...he was suddenly and hazily relieved that he had something in Persepolis and blue agave plants to talk to her about.
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She buried her secrets in a bowl of brownie mix....
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Sunlight and the small wind/
swallow the frost/
on rooftops and windshields
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My bones will rob me blind, corpuscle by corpuscle.
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I was convinced that enemy bombers were on the way.
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we all die from the bottom up
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Tentacles hold fast to the small/
thrashing thing they believe is true//
which, devoured, once crushed/
completely still, turns into shit,
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Originally published on Six Sentences:In a family of many hushed secrets, only so many years could pass before the cracks would begin to show, and usually started with the creative girls. Though her aunt had been dead for two years, Shifra knew the cracks the family…
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I said: “Doesn’t he understand? People like me, geniuses—great, mad geniuses—are prone to failures because we do not accept the common notions of society? Doesn’t he understand? I’m not like the others.”
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—Strip down to your shorts. Put on this gown, open to the rear.
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Kerryn saved us from ourselves really. Would you be reading this had she eaten it?
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We can’t just bomb Berlin or Dresden,/
Nagasaki or Hanoi, to make things safe
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The cellar smelled like an aroused muskrat.
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I gave you two daughters.
I gave you four grandchildren.
I'm done.
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The last chick in the nest
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When we saw the window, we were impressed. It was so clean and transparent that it reminded us of a new pair of glasses, everything so crisp and clear through it. It looked on to nothing. Actually it looked on to the refridgerators and a few stoves, though most of the…
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Sometimes when I fall I see a ...
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The were two things and two things only in the town of Comfort, Alabama, that were older than Bella.
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I was sleeping in a pile of teenage bodies soft limb spread over soft thin limb.
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