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As a child I drowned myself in the pages of books, and as a writer I prefer to be left alone with my imagination.
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105800
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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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105867
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Lights of human occupation burn/
in patterns like the growth/
of a bacillus, lethal and prodigious,
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105844
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The Managers are always to be found in twos or threes, lumbering greyly.——If you pass the Managers in a corridor it's a good idea to say hello. They will probably return your greeting, as best they can.——The Managers conduct meetings. They sit at the…
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105830
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There was something about the boy that made me uneasy. Maybe it was the reverse widow's peak on his forehead or the way he wiped away his snot with the back of his hand. It could have been his red flannel shirt that reminded me of the hillbillies from the mountain…
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105820
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She suggested just moving in together. A lot less constrained by convention she, on occasion, did not wear a bra.
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105822
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his eyes see blood as circumstance.
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105810
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Floating along the ebbs of the ocean,toward the horizon, where time has no say,an end that will never be reached.
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105865
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Sometimes the dirt just stays dirt
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105854
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I have constructed this emotion with tinfoil and stilts. I wear the mask of a typewriter. I have roots in Minnesota. I have a glass hat and a junkyard monstrosity pregnant with parables.
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105800
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I head out the door into Blustery cold winds Walking to my start mark I begin… Expecting in moments To hear the regular symphony Of anatomies brilliant Symmetry… Then I realize In my haste I have been thoughtless It will exact a price… …
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1057114
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When were you flash frozen?
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105733
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I ate 3 pieces of a broken heart
I wonder who ate the rest?
They may have eaten the best
I don’t know and can’t even start
To wonder how it got in such a mess
3 pieces of a broken heart
You could tell it just fell apart
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A shot in the dark and everything goes black. It's as if the story never happened.
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105733
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a midge smothered
in the light of disarray
crawls back into the sage
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105744
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The man next door came over with a pitchfork.
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He was rummaging through his giant pile of clothing on the floor, looking for something to wear to sleep. When he couldn't quite tell what was dirty and what was clean, he knew it was time for laundry. Just as he was going to…
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105721
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I tell him if he wants to impress a girl he should learn to cook. He shifts his body. I add, crab cakes work well.
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105753
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There is a woman in here- I am never alone- but she is fully clothed in Detroit Derby Dolls gear and stands at a modest seven inches tall.
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105700
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It was the woman, Mary Lou Compton, that he cared about. They would've been happily married by now if Bryce hadn't killed his Uncle Ned.
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105776
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A phrase, a sentence, a stanza,/
sounds among the sums and lists/
and starts a scratched cascade/
of syllables and other approximations--
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105700
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We all ran out of the house into the communal garden without fences. There stood Von Rotten with a smoking rifle in his hands, and our mascot Digger lying on his side, limp. We all looked at each other in disbelief.
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105722
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He said, “It was only after I broke my neck and even like maybe a year later that I really started realizing that I had something to say.”
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105763
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I signed up for functional
I did not ask for this mixed bag
of broken glass
I have enough to swallow
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1057115
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Somewhere in the belly of the beast
something was stirring.
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105643
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Even the fruit from the nearby orchard (which I, in part, nourish) batters my stone to rot.
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105684
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He sat behind her in Honors English, each day studying everything about her.......
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