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It is late in the twentieth century and I'm on my hands and knees for you.
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I fell into a crevasse once.
I jumped off a bridge once, right before a train was to hit me.
Jumped off roofs several times.
I have a thing for jumping.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to nachos.
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Maybe you should consider a few more things before embarking upon actual rescue, like: Is the victim hot? Not stove hot, idiot. Beauty hot. Will this be a triumph to save this person (like perhaps they are some Nobel laureate), or are you risking you
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"You," he says, "Sit in here."
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Once upon a time, on March 8, 2011, to be exact, there was a flash fiction writer named Rinsewater who had a novel idea – flash fiction writers whose stories were published by indie lit magazines must be paid for their work!
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The phone screamed again, nearly rattling off the hook, and I winced. Only in the dead of night, silence all around it and with the ring so unexpected, did it register as an alarm like this.
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It was one of those incredible literary coincidences destined to reside in Wiki annals forever.
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You make a mental note of the rising number of people that know you. You vow to trim the list.
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I will gobble them like tiny men, missions and things to prove.
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One day I was sucking down the HG French Vanilla, and the next day my body plugged itself into some universal energy grid. Like some unseen force had snuck into my body and somehow a biological experiment had gone terribly wrong. The unintended result was
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I had a dream the daylight needed / repainting.
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I am not against the darkness / I can learn to live with restraint
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Co-written with Bobbie Ann Mason
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"It's what being out of work does to you, " she said, with that innocent sense of the everyday tragic, that kind murmur.
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The man is wiry and jumpy. There is a tattoo on his upper arm of Charles Manson. He jumps and jumps. He looks like a man on a pogo stick. He will not stop jumping.
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K is eating a banana. He says to me, "There is no end in the sense that God is dead, or history is dead. I would prefer not to play the role of a thoroughly useless prophet. I leave that to others, like Gene McCarthy."
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"A little knowledge truly is a dangerous thing."
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Back when I was fifteen, Svengal, Mohammed and I used to scamper up to the roof of our sixteen story apartment building and use it as our Masturbatory. We called it that because it served as a sort of observatory where we could diligently perform our rece
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"Both my parents were hypnotists. As were two of my grandparents."
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A tiny bear emerged from the cave of his mouth, grabbed the hair and pulled it on his lap to play with it.
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He reached his decision just as the plane entered a pocket of turbulence. The moderate buffeting jiggled the flesh of his stomach, a common if uncomfortable occurrence, which he attempted to remedy by clearing his throat and tugging his shirt outward so
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We were in her boyfriend’s room in the middle of the night. I was seated on the bed, and she was on the carpet poking holes in his condoms. We were doing it in the dark, to prepare for any contingency. The room smelled like old laundry and body spray.
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He was starting fresh, starting legal.
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Our flag-draped coffins float to the surface of an uncharted sea and we appear together—patriots both—on the cover of Life Magazine.
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On her lunch break, she dumps Luis for Daniel Towens, the ugliest man in the county.
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...the job was easy, just pour and deliver, pour and deliver.
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I write to you from waiting for the world to end. I will leave this in a desk drawer.
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All eyes aim towards the heavens.
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