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Chinese Noodle Soup

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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…

Chimera (a wild and unrealistic dream or notion)

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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

Before

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

Lost and Found

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list: almond message oil almond sunset tea dark chocolate 80% dry rhubarb soda lavender bath oil musk candles red light bulb

Calypso

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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…

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.

One Day the Caveman Played Guitar

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Others climbed trees for a hopeful sighting.

Zombicil

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I’m told it hurts. It hurts more than anyone ever thought it would. Every light in the room blinds you. Every sound in the room deafens you. The pain is excruciating as muscles and nerves that aren’t meant to work anymore are forced back to life i

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.

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.

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

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.

Arcana Magi - c.4: Reflection

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Those without magic, tried to figure out what their fellow co-workers were looking at as they watched Alysia fly. Oryn lifted her head up and her mouth gaped open, her eyes twitched as the reflection of a bright light glared across her eyes.

Luck

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

1998, What I Wanted

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

The Alternative Zodiac

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

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.

Ethics

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

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.”

Alice Invading the Garden

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I'm Alice invading the garden, looking for souls among cards

Unlock the Door, Open Your Heart and Surf the Rifting Singularity

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1) Tragicomedy set to drama is what the American public fears and abhors. But it's reality, and reality can be subject to the rifling burden of…

After the Fall

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

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

Summertime

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

Her father's job

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“We don’t drop litter. Pick it up.”

Bread

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

Killing Noise

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

Mothering in Real Time

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"If Hillary can forgive Bill, why can't you forgive Dad?" my seven-year-old son wails one night as I put him to bed.