2509 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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2509 7 4
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Initially, she had no hopes about his impending arrival, scrawny as he was, until realizing that, because he was a boy, because he was new around here, he might want to wrestle.
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2509 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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2509 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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2508 28 22
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I felt/
no need to show what I had made/
to anybody else.
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2508 10 10
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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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2508 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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2508 4 1
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I was about to answer when that something emerged from the woods. It was not an animal, after all, but a woman dressed all in brown. She approached our porch windows. I shuddered and turned away. But her coming was inevitable. When I turned back, she
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2507 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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2506 13 8
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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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2504 20 14
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“We don’t drop litter. Pick it up.”
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2504 6 1
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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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2504 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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2502 5 2
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Instead of these gew-gaw ‘signs’ you waffle about, I will give you reality
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2502 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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2501 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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2500 23 19
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“Mescaline occurs naturally in our bodies, you know,” I said.
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2500 9 6
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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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2499 9 3
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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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2498 10 6
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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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2497 43 24
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The field opens up to us like something born.
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2496 9 9
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There were trees where I lived
and clean pavement
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2496 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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2495 6 6
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Others climbed
trees for a
hopeful sighting.
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2494 8 5
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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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2494 37 14
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I should have created a first-date questionnaire heartaches ago.
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2494 10 5
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‘In terms of relationship, I am your Father – my name is the Emperor’.
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2493 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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2492 12 13
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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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2491 11 9
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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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