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The air smells like dream, like farm shit, like the salty stalling of evolution.
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143911
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She never leaves her desk, but food appears like magic.
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1. The Kingdom of MaggotsBillions of tiny naked bald men wriggle and squirm through a derelict mannequin factory.2. The Sea of KnivesThe crests of waves slice and slash. Maimed mermaids wail.3. The Eye MoonEnvious mirrors ape the sun. An astronaut falls forever into open…
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I am experience and information//
at a small but irredeemable remove.
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143994
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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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143933
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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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143911
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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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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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143863
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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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143832
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The shadows hang fast on the downs this day: And I hang like the darkness, over heath and down; Since the air there is clearer than the clouds, men say, And I'm lost in the country, I shall turn to town. If the heather is restless, then the fete is …
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143833
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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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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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Let me say these words now
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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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I dreamt, said the Donkey, of an apricot. An apricot the size of a heart. …
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143833
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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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At 19 words, the whole piece is a snippet.
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143865
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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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143876
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The outside world will intrude . . .
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Jimi and Janis remain fierce and beautiful
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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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till the tiny death may we
remain true, me and you, to our flesh and blood and sinew, the
springs and silver in our tiny hearts with vicious teeth and a hard
bone need to fuck
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143810
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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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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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Her name was Christine
and she was nailed to the cross
of their lust
and their greed,
and their vengeance
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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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