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The outside world will intrude . . .
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143311
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She never leaves her desk, but food appears like magic.
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143394
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I've never liked kind eyes;I prefer drive.Or fire.And when a woman's eyes are described as "doe,"I hear "dumb."Like an animal.
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143321
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We'd been talking about the baby, about what we would do, when the women began fighting after the wedding held in the church next to our apartment. Their fierce and piercing arguments crawled up the walls to the second story window we sat next to. We'd looked outside…
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Violet goes with her mother to the home, delivering cookies to old folks. She's getting to hate how she goes along with everything her mother asks. Some of her friends are rebelling already, and Violet feels something under her skin. It's still just a dark shape, lurking…
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143253
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Her name was Christine
and she was nailed to the cross
of their lust
and their greed,
and their vengeance
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143275
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I dreamt, said the Donkey, of an apricot. An apricot the size of a heart. …
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143200
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If it was truly new territory of the mind, he thought he might find some place that resembled the world as his dad envisioned it, having already decided that his father could never turn back across the frontier to the old world of youth
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143243
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An excited state
with undiscovered borders, the almost space -
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143220
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You don't just hear the sound, you are the sound, you and everyone else in the room.
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143233
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Play somethin’ solemn, they told me, or somethin’ that sounds like home or the mountains in summer.
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143230
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After our first kiss,
a team of scientists
scrubbed away the cancer
of your lipstick.
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143253
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Could even drift off to
New Orleans for a slow sip
of a hurricane
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143142
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They sit across from each other and she smiles as if they were in a normal place.
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143150
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I noticed his pistol before his pissbag and I knew then that failure not only had a face but a balding head, too
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143100
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He woke up four hours later with the second worst headache of his life. He leaned against the car door, his face against the window, and pulled the handle to open the door, but it smacked against the back wall vibrating the glass against his cheek. He tri
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143122
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The night before we dug John Clark's grave, my brother and I stood outside his windows and got an eyeful. Rose, his wife, should have closed the blinds. There she was in the arms of Willard, her neighbor, middle school science teacher. It was a serious…
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143133
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was entering into a new phase of its existence, a peculiar paradigm of the wider world where, presaged by science, economic and political ideologies were conspiring to displace the old verities of religion and aesthetics, but where…
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The old lady is losing her memory. She forgets people's names yet so familiar to her. A little sheepish, she takes her basket and walks to the village. Just like when her legs were young, suntanned, shapely and attractive. Along the footpath, by the shop windows, over the…
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She woke before the sun was up to brew a pot of coffee. His eyes blinked open as he lay in bed smiling, smelling the fresh coffee mixed with marijuana smoke. He walked to the living room and sat next to her on the couch. He rested his head against her shoulder.…
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143155
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Then I am in Washington DC impersonating an accountant.
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143100
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The mist monster leaned over the building, drawing its face close to Mayumi. Its’ lavender eyes locked onto the Magi as she stood there ignoring Rumiko’s calls to flee.
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The Traignarry Light Preservation Society meets monthly, and welcomes visitors.
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143043
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It’s quite simple - don’t move.
No fake or feint - just stand your ground.
The fixed gaze, the thousand yard stare, hold your place.
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I remember how silk felt against skin, dressed in my damn flimsy things, while the cold bit my nipples. How I would lie in your arms when I was young, after being awakened from my pubescent slumber. (Enough of that!) In a rush to grow up for good, holdi
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143065
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You're sitting in a darkened theatre with Gothic ceilings and one exit watching the latest Alan Ladd film with William Bendix and Veronica Lake.
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1430177
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Eat the Body/
Drink the Blood/
Perfect the sacrifice,
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The oval-shaped, pearl-white objects shimmered soundlessly in the warm sunlight. Suddenly one object veered off and headed towards them stopping to hover not twenty feet away. Suddenly their phones vibrated simultaneously. They both looked at their messa
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