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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The last time they made love she could feel the hint of pain and loss which would become her.
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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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“Mescaline occurs naturally in our bodies, you know,” I said.
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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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Instead of these gew-gaw ‘signs’ you waffle about, I will give you reality
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The field opens up to us like something born.
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“We don’t drop litter. Pick it up.”
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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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Others climbed
trees for a
hopeful sighting.
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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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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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I was good-looking, marketable and ambitious. And that never hurt anyone cracking it big ...
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‘In terms of relationship, I am your Father – my name is the Emperor’.
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There were trees where I lived
and clean pavement
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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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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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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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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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I should have created a first-date questionnaire heartaches ago.
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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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They were a family, now, these three: child, widow, widower.
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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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