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My writing career began with sitting around the tree eating Christmas presents.
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This was not a good sign, comforting gestures from strangers were bad omens.
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I, Seer of the Stars, Cartographer of the Cosmos, / measure my mass, and to whom do I owe this woe...
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you are on a missing boat in the middle Of a fogged out notion of some sort. A no nonsense paddle could be made out Of something as intangible as an Incoming wave. This could also be a Floating thought up map, man. In…
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no rule says an imaginary friend has to be a good one
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When I was a boy and just out of seminary school, I went to a Doors concert and heard Jim Morrison sing his song ‘Soft Parade’ – it changed my life.
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The glamour of living in the Rebuilt Engine Capital of the World is meaningless to the young boys who roam its crowded streets after school, desperately looking for something to take their minds off their homework.
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After you lost sight in your left eye, mom made me go on the road with you that last summer to help you see.
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He showed me the knife, said it was his best friend. This knife is older than you, he said. Here, run your finger along its blade. Like this. He showed me how to do it.
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There is some debate about what kind of twins they are. It’s a fissure between aesthetics and science.
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When daybreak comes, it falls a pall pást mé, For it descends too soon for woken sight to see A shade of any gladness in its dew's first blisters: All my dreams of daylight are in darkling whispers Of…
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“Don’t you think you should tie a tourniquet or something?” she asked as I bled profusely from the points where Jesus was wounded during his crucifixion.
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so here we all are/
deep in debt
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His eyes begin to glisten like hot green wax pooling around the
wick
of a
pretty little candle.
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I heard the patron yelling,
“Hey, man! That’s my cappuccino!”
when the young female snatched it and got away.
But the police cornered her a few blocks away,
licking the last bits of foam off her wiley whiskers.
That’s how they knew they had
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With some of these guys it was like propping a kid on a training-wheel bike, then steering the kid down the street til he figured out what to do next. Tricks would come into the bar. Roanne had a smile for all but the dregs…
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His smartphone rang. A picture came up of him kissing the blonde.
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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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...I made the mistake, thinking the point of a maze was to go in one side and out the other.
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I tell people that we leave out food for the creatures to appease the skunk gods.
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In my dream I am the showy leaf, and you are the stem, and you are the strength. I am the leaf turning colors, my face flushed, the fine hair at my neck, and there is the deep carnal twisting around your stem that sends me floating to the ceiling over a
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I’ll bet
You got bit by Snake Charmer Boy
And your world fell out from under you
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looked briefly – glanced
shouted loudly – yelled
fell down – fell
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I knew there was something wrong with the sunset when I woke up.
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destroy the day
rip up the track
jump in the water
eat nothing but bugs
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and so I'm staying here where I am a little while (longer). Who knows where the time sleeps? I don't think I'll ever catch up with your heart again. That's the same lame novel approach I'm always stepping into to…
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It was the most prestigious cashier position in the entire state!
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Like the Lady Miss Kier, I believe in the power of love. I believe.
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Sam tapped the stick against the small mountain of trash bags, a dull thud predictably followed by a dozen rats scurrying out of the mass. He's started to make a personal game of it — seeing how many he can kill with one whack; if he swings hard enough, and in…
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