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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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... while I lie, cool as a nectar cream snowball,
in my Maggie The Cat slip, painting my toenails
a color called Bad Influence
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At first I thought maybe I was dreaming, or hallucinating from the lack of sleep and a high altitude. I peered out of the small window and thought I saw a man walking stark naked along a path maybe twenty feet from my trailer. He walked briskly into a one
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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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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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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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The last time they made love she could feel the hint of pain and loss which would become her.
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Instead of these gew-gaw ‘signs’ you waffle about, I will give you reality
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I felt/
no need to show what I had made/
to anybody else.
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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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Every day the trains transported the young and successful and the not so young and less successful who belonged to the five buildings.
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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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“We don’t drop litter. Pick it up.”
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I was good-looking, marketable and ambitious. And that never hurt anyone cracking it big ...
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It was too late to be eponymous. I was happy enough to be an emulator. But even then, my ideas were nothing but re-runs of re-runs. Like a high-school production of Macbeth.
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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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Back when Richard was still skinny and mean, we fought at The Island. He broke a pool stick over my head. I bruised more than his ego. We fought over a woman, as always. We were best friends and that’s what we did.
W
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“Mescaline occurs naturally in our bodies, you know,” I said.
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The field opens up to us like something born.
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There were trees where I lived
and clean pavement
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In the evidence of broad daylight, in the secrecy of darkness, in drizzling rain that teased the embers, Annabelle worked hard.
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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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So when they shake a finger, when they yell, she remembers Miss Whalen saying, “It’s not for keeps.”
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Others climbed
trees for a
hopeful sighting.
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Cherry was America's least favorite pie. Her mother made it every year for her father's birthday because "daddy doesn't like cake." America had to wash the bowls, the wooden spoon, the plates and finally the Pyrex dish. Her brother got to "contribute" by climbing the tree…
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This is where he died, she says to me, and points to the damp pavement. Her hair is wet, and slicked against her neck. The humidity is making everything engulf her. The sleep shorts I bought her last July are loose on her now, but between the rain and
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Tomorrow the authority smashes. Tonight we march, splash, carve letters in wet paint from room to room until steel blades bend. The letters will tilt in shadows gliding over the walls to mask our tales born of fractured wrists and the ghosts, our keepers.
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“I found a recipe on the net and now my hair smells of pumpkin.”
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I should have created a first-date questionnaire heartaches ago.
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‘In terms of relationship, I am your Father – my name is the Emperor’.
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