2564 38 23
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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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2563 0 0
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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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2562 21 19
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Is: soozly, soggly, 'shrooms and shrimp, chickens and eggs-dropped, skinny brown smooths,snappyish peas and humblestumblingin hothappy broth.
These flinging…
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2562 50 27
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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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2562 7 4
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For here in the vortex are no other laws, Than separate towards you I and skirting stone- To wards where wavelets purr against their pause A moment more, to yawn to omicron… Inside the seashell orchard's whirl-quick floor- Come all at once to me or…
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2562 9 5
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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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2560 29 15
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What I wanted was long-in-the-sheets sex...
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2560 25 16
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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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2559 5 5
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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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2559 23 25
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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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2557 0 0
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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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2555 6 6
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Others climbed
trees for a
hopeful sighting.
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2554 10 6
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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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2553 52 22
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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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2553 29 11
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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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2552 5 2
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Instead of these gew-gaw ‘signs’ you waffle about, I will give you reality
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2551 17 9
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“I found a recipe on the net and now my hair smells of pumpkin.”
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2549 23 19
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“Mescaline occurs naturally in our bodies, you know,” I said.
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2549 20 14
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“We don’t drop litter. Pick it up.”
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2549 8 6
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I was good-looking, marketable and ambitious. And that never hurt anyone cracking it big ...
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2547 6 0
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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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2545 10 5
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‘In terms of relationship, I am your Father – my name is the Emperor’.
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2544 0 0
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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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2543 43 24
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The field opens up to us like something born.
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2543 8 8
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They were a family, now, these three: child, widow, widower.
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2542 9 9
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There were trees where I lived
and clean pavement
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2541 2 0
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Kelly looked at her screen. Did she really just type that? Is she really going that cliche? Apparently so. She sighed. "Well I can't erase it for fear of losing words so I might as well just go with it."
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2539 37 24
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I ate a novel. I digested a film reel. I vomited poetry.
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2539 17 14
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my foreign mouth embarrassed the teachers. my jumbled words gave people sad faces. so wrong these words of mine. even the mentally retarded girl would not talk to me. just looking at my garbled mouth made her slap herself. and my writing. oh no. my writin
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2539 3 1
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The grenadier moans in his sleep. He’s making love with a dead brown woman. A small, bone thin woman with heavy milk
full breast. A dead child’s milk.
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