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“You’re off till Monday,” the big man told him. “You can thank Mr. Big Mouth and company for that. Death detail gets two days off.”
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The Bond Trader begins his morning with coffee and a hit of LSD.
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221621
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It was a subtle change. Jeffrey's grandmother was never graceful. Her figure was like a garbage bag filled with rounded masses of leaves and the unexpected angle of the odd stick, the entire shambling affair draped in soiled and yellowed hand-knit clothing…
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The abandoned body got up and left the room. It was just in time to greet his wife and daughter, who were just coming in the front door.
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. . . and the last thing you’ll smell will be new-cut pine.
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221483
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Was I a dreamer? Was I asking for too much?
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221411
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Let's be honest. Ugly people have an uphill battle in this culture. From the time they slide out of their ugly mothers they stand at the plate with two strikes.
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He blew out the candle. There was the tang of candle smoke, scattered by a sudden rush of wings, and the immediacy of another breathing thing in the dark. I heard the birdcage open, and the bird fluttering in there without crying out.
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“Stay there Alysia!” Brie said from behind as she ran toward them. The Sentinel used Alysia’s back as a step and launched herself into the air with Legacy over her head.
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He had what was commonly referred to in junior high as the ‘bullshit mustache’.
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This is the best kind of crime scene.
Spattered like gore from gunshots,
I'm left covered in trace evidence.
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221320
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The specialist had kept what he'd taken out of Sue May. I made an appointment with him and was shown it floating in a jar of clean unguent.
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2213103
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I can feel everything getting closer, the past catching up. All the cunts and cocks and clits I've ever touched. I left them all on the other side of the world, and now they're creeping back to me.
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"You're publishing too much too / quickly. We think that's unhealthy. We want you / to slow down. You're becoming a fame whore."
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His body echoed in the mirror/
cracked into distant images
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I slide my hand under the sheets. It’s cool there. An impression. This is where she would be.
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AFTER DINNER Another cycle gone, wasted. She stares into her bowl of full-fat ice cream (just half a cup a day, every day, for fertility). Beside her sits her husband, building a sundae. When he's done she reaches over, picks the cherry off the top, and hurls it into the…
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to say that he was
doing fine
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“I take him to see all those sexy movies,” she said, “because it puts the passion back in him. I love what he does to me when we get back home after those movies.”
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when unicorns took to flight / the poles shifted / the world flooded / and Pangaea busted open like calloused palm
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the mighty mountains sighed, and the wide seas heaved
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I turn my head. Time starts running.
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22101813
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"You know, there really is a death of the heart."
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22101512
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Flexeril and Hydrocodon... For my back
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“They’re Rocky Mountain Oysters,” the blond said. “Fresh. You’ll absolutely love them Jim.”
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You may gather from me
the spring of my youth
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We walk in silence. We water our plants. We don’t eat as well as we should. We try to love. We try to forget.
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I lock the last of the beer and wine doors and head back to the cash register. Our clocks are not on bar time so I only have a few minutes. I check the till. A stack of ones and three fives. Enough to break a twenty, but looking bare. The parking lot's empty. The air…
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There is a tall and leafy tree in our backyard. Also a bride, a groom, and a chicken.
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