1443 9 4
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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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144332
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Hi de ho, and hey, hey, hey; The farmer's daughter is made of hay. I went to touch her but she blew away, And noo ma hert is nae langer gay. Hi de hoo, and how do you do? The farmer's wife has a cold up her flue, And takes me away…
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144332
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Hope is the thing playing checkers
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144263
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Chewing on peppered peanuts, thin flakes scattered carelessly around his squat, Father unfurls his turban and mops his clammy pate with an open palm.
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144264
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The Traignarry Light Preservation Society meets monthly, and welcomes visitors.
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144233
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I remember the days when my brother and I would walk down Tillman Square, careful to avoid the cracks zigzagging along the ground. Well I did. My brother made a point to step on every one.
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144221
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In his tiny fist he held the world
In his other his mothers hand
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144250
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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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144232
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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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144233
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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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144211
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the sour waft of a secret
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144298
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Walking down an unfamiliar street, / I heard a sudden caw of crows, / some thunder afar, strums of a lute— / a streetcar came flying along.
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144296
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Tell people of substance the truth.
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144224
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What
I learned/one summer/in the North East/Thessaloniki heat was. . . .
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1442117
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Jimi and Janis remain fierce and beautiful
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144230
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After our first kiss,
a team of scientists
scrubbed away the cancer
of your lipstick.
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144221
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144233
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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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144221
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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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144200
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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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144121
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When she would leave my pillows still smelled like her. I would just inhale her for hours afterwards, sex and honeysuckles.
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144142
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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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144153
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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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14411413
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Let me say these words now
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144175
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I dreamt, said the Donkey, of an apricot. An apricot the size of a heart. …
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144121
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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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144133
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Why, these were the young hands
that I kissed only last night.
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144165
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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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144100
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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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144100
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Those in the house don’t notice the sweaty woman on their lawn any more than they notice the Ruger LCP pistol she holds limply in her right hand.
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