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A Black Night

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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.

The Tall Guys Club

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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.

Masdy's Silver

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Cheater was a Goblin. He carried a long knife, not quite a sword, but more than your average pocket blade.

Ghost

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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.

No Face World Champ

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The last time he saw his psychic, she told him you're gonna die within six months.

One Day the Caveman Played Guitar

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Others climbed trees for a hopeful sighting.

1998, What I Wanted

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What I wanted was long-in-the-sheets sex...

Before

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The last time they made love she could feel the hint of pain and loss which would become her.

1997: What I Wanted

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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.

Wahrheit und Dichtung

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When I was eight years old, I stepped into / a snow bank in Pennsylvania and sank / in over my head

Luck

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You climb on a stool, drink off the first glass without coming up for air. Man, that tastes good!

No Pretty Boy

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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

The Mating Habits of College Girls

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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

The Alternative Zodiac

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Instead of these gew-gaw ‘signs’ you waffle about, I will give you reality

A Wee Noggin - Paddy Whacker's Challenge

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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.

Summertime

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“Mescaline occurs naturally in our bodies, you know,” I said.

Life Before Kant

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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.

Late November

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“I found a recipe on the net and now my hair smells of pumpkin.”

Ethics

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I was good-looking, marketable and ambitious. And that never hurt anyone cracking it big ...

The Strange Edge: Have I Stumbled Upon a New Idear? (Blog)

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Slipstream features strange events in a typical world whereas New Weird features typical events in a strange world.

After the Fall

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They were a family, now, these three: child, widow, widower.

Her father's job

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“We don’t drop litter. Pick it up.”

Killing Noise

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I ate a novel. I digested a film reel. I vomited poetry.

Abduction

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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,

My Shasta Daisy

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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 …

The girl, whose hair was red, green and yellow

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There were trees where I lived and clean pavement

And So It Begins

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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."

The Night We Saw Shehenshah

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‘In terms of relationship, I am your Father – my name is the Emperor’.

Strings

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The field opens up to us like something born.

Bread

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Zach lifts his glass. “Look at us! We eat like kings. Kings!”