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I am experience and information//
at a small but irredeemable remove.
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In the end, he knew he wasn’t going home.
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What chaos comes from / insufficiency? What else can calcify dreams?
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143830
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After our first kiss,
a team of scientists
scrubbed away the cancer
of your lipstick.
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143811
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It's called the Knee Defender. But I prefer to think of it as the Schmuck Identifier.
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143853
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An electromagnetic pulse/
scrubbed the servers./
The clouds wisped and blew away, empty./
Markets lost what little mind they had.
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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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143742
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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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Let me say these words now
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143733
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I nearly burst out laughing when I heard myself telling him in my accented English that she’d confided in me that she was preparing to sacrifice herself as part of an elaborate snuff film produced by a band of psychotic artists hell-bent on making up for
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143722
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So young. So innocent. How do you tell a little one that her mother is dying? The father seemed to be bathing in a sea of hopelessness lately.
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143751
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At 19 words, the whole piece is a snippet.
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A door slams. The vibrations rattle through the floor, up his legs and into his chest. He can hear the yells, and the tears that mar her voice. Rat-ta-tatRat-ta-tat A door slams. Eyes closed while images of a life he will never live flicker on…
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14371411
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Dear Brandon Lee: I know that you're dead and can't respond to letters, but I've always felt a connection to you.
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143796
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Tell people of substance the truth.
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143794
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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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143733
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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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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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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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143721
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My mind is on idle as it knows no other way to go. I look for good news, but if there is any, will I be able to process it?
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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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143632
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Why not just self-publish on Fictionaut and be read by thousands of my peers? Why not release my cherished work directly to my thousands of Facebook or Twitter or blog friends? Can the budding writer that I am realistically expect a larger audience?
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143675
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I dreamt, said the Donkey, of an apricot. An apricot the size of a heart. …
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143611
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the sour waft of a secret
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143621
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It was R who embodied love for me. We’d eaten gummi worms in the park, held them up to the sun, yellow and green and translucent. When we returned to her flat, they were everywhere. I’d never seen such a thing. They hung in the air, these gummi worms.
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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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143600
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Godzilla, Mothra, Kong, Rodan.
Most people know these Giant Monsters through the movies. What the majority of the population doesn't understand is, that these are monsters are real. Like the myths of ancient times, these movies are just a way that our
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