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I’m told it hurts. It hurts more than anyone ever thought it would. Every light in the room blinds you. Every sound in the room deafens you. The pain is excruciating as muscles and nerves that aren’t meant to work anymore are forced back to life i
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He lit a slim, brown cigarette and drew on it. "But have you heard the flugelhorn? I mean, have you heard a particularly adept flugelhorn?"
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Others climbed
trees for a
hopeful sighting.
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Cheater was a Goblin. He carried a long knife, not quite a sword, but more than your average pocket blade.
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If all the world had one neck, I would have clenched my hands around it and squeezed until everything went black.
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Those without magic, tried to figure out what their fellow co-workers were looking at as they watched Alysia fly. Oryn lifted her head up and her mouth gaped open, her eyes twitched as the reflection of a bright light glared across her eyes.
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Some of the guys wear earplugs. They wear ‘em because they don’t wanna hear it. Oscar Livitt fucking. Nobody looks.
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The hairs on my arm lift with the breeze; a haunting breath from the open window carrying night-scented stock from the black-shrouded garden.
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The last time they made love she could feel the hint of pain and loss which would become her.
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The last time he saw his psychic, she told him you're gonna die within six months.
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You climb on a stool, drink off the first glass without coming up for air. Man, that tastes good!
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You want to be there, but not noticed. Alive, but not too alive. Because that's how you feel every day. Like an apology with legs.
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What I wanted was long-in-the-sheets sex...
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When I was eight years old, I stepped into / a snow bank in Pennsylvania and sank / in over my head
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They were a family, now, these three: child, widow, widower.
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Janice liked me being in the closet while she brought dudes home from the Mack. We both liked it, but sometimes, sitting on that folding chair for that twenty minutes among her clothes, all perfume-stanky and leather-smell, it felt like the whole world wa
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Instead of these gew-gaw ‘signs’ you waffle about, I will give you reality
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I doused back three Buds in the time it took him to detest a variety of subjects including the naivety of quantum physics and pregnant women.
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Jeremy and I are in bed tangled in the sheets, my head on his chest, and he’s playing with my hair, stroking it the way I like. He’s breathing heavy, my arm wrapped around his torso, and I’m smelling him and he smells sweet like he always does. Th
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Slipstream features strange events in a typical world whereas New Weird features typical events in a strange world.
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“I found a recipe on the net and now my hair smells of pumpkin.”
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“Mescaline occurs naturally in our bodies, you know,” I said.
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On the eve of celebrating their patron saint at the public house, one of his particularly cabbaged mates was bold enough to ask him about his cranial deformity.
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“We don’t drop litter. Pick it up.”
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I ate a novel. I digested a film reel. I vomited poetry.
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I was good-looking, marketable and ambitious. And that never hurt anyone cracking it big ...
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Zach lifts his glass. “Look at us! We eat like kings. Kings!”
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There were trees where I lived
and clean pavement
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they’d been pumping him
with Dilaudid at night,
to adjust his palette for what was
coming, in the soft lamp light he
watched his long fingers sprout pink
caterpillar fuzz, knuckles morphed
into hinges for Monarch butterflies,
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I lay on grass warmed by the sun Somehow the breeze finds Its way between my toes I gaze at your beauty Standing alone in between Blades of green grass Is Shasta My Daisy I watch you dance As the wind teases and blows I watch you stand tall …
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