1285 10 4
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Contest rules are simple. Two teams of five hunters each are established by drawing from pools of interested volunteers and selected prison inmates confined for capital crimes and illegal immigration.
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128554
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“If we had more bats we’d have fewer bugs,”
I said. She shrank back into her sweater,
and gave me a look, then a shrug.
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128541
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Tree full of dimes and dollars
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128522
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We walk though the streets of London, New York, Paris, Prague, Barcelona, Skegness, inhaling air heavy with metaphors, eyes set alight by the microscopic pyrotechnics of quotidian symbols hitherto debased by the outmoded conventions of a bankrupt civilisation decomposing in…
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128585
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Mari thinks that's all fine and fucking dandy.
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128573
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Not the torn magazine page, not the smell of ink, not the sweat of palm nor the froth of irish spring
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128540
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She had endured three years of abuse for those hot, fleeting moments of tenderness—just enough warmth to keep her second-guessing the bitter frost. Now the ring promised a lifetime of biting back her pain.
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128542
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you happen to me like motorcycle tricks
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128566
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state a shambles, mountains and rivers endure./meanwhile, the city hides amidst spring's thick growth . . .
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128511
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The guy – it’s Billy Krazik - turns and aims at Jamie Stockwell, sitting there calmly as if he’s in the play or something and he takes two to the head.
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128564
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I wonder if she is my real mother, if I could get one of those paternity tests and find out if she’s my real mother and if the guy she told me was my father was really my father. I can’t remember him very well, just a lot of him screaming and hollering an
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128522
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This is the record of a drowning.
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128521
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The woman leapt from the top of the burning building. The flames reddened the faces of the watching crowd. The heat pushed them back. The woman hit the ground. The crowd oooooed. If only I'd been a firewoman, I thought, with a ladder as tall as a building and a…
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128521
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You sleep. The time is soft and slow.
Your dreams are covered with the snow.
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128433
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Life's a beach? A bitch? Same thing.
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128495
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There were ten thousand photographs buried in the bottom of the jar
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1284158
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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128444
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"Shouldn’t I be able to easily get my arms around nothing?”
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128410
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Touch these words with your mind. They will create an elephant with an unidentifiable itch.
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128455
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128433
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As she slunk to her topless Mercedes
sparkling curbside, wax job hand rubbed
in Hamburg, testosterone heads turned
wishing similar treatment.
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128452
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Can we ever truly know reality? I don’t think so. But fly in comfort my friend. Lean back and enjoy the thrust of those engines.
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128476
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The outside world will intrude . . .
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128476
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We exist to facilitate/
successful conclusions of hopeless lives.
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128400
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if i could i would leave/ my beating heart like flowers/ pumping blood upon your doorstep/ in gory testament/ to the way you make me feel.
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128421
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So you printed your resume on this coffee cup - that’s something
- I wanted you guys to think about me every morning - while you were getting your coffee
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128487
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On high a centaur is pulling a yellow chicken on a sled.
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128453
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Well, now it has fallen away some
but I felt better about it when it was raging
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128465
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She locked herself in the bathroom on our wedding night. That was my first clue that I had made a mistake.
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1283135
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each act of creation is a jolt of expectation
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