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to say that he was
doing fine
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burning for You, caught in between, yearning to remain completely wrapped around Your finger, feeling panoramic, and this alive.
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The doorbell rang while Ron was masturbating.He closed his eyes tight. Tried to hold the image of Lori bent over the arm of the couch. No use. It was gone. Ron sighed, then levered the recliner down. Tied on the terry-cloth robe Lori had given him. He kicked aside an empty…
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. . . and the last thing you’ll smell will be new-cut pine.
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I was afraid of needles and ponds of water and I was transfixed by both.
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"Isn't it time to remove the nails, and put Jesus to rest once and for all," Mary asks.
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He kissed her tits and thought of art
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All week my crew and I waited for the snuff party. An obscure fete where someone gets killed strictly for the entertainment and viewing pleasure of others. Before you judge us know this, people die every day for no reason at all.
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At some point, we will have to shoot them/
through the eyes and skull and heart
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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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A supermodel, carrying a large Valentine’s box, fell on the ice.
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That sound. Bone against bone. Skin across skin. Blood fraying into the unknown dark. He loved that sound.
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His body echoed in the mirror/
cracked into distant images
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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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One of the pieces, I noticed, had the real shape of a miniature chicken, its mohawk, pin legs, and small definition of wing. “Look at that,” I said to my friend. And just then, the wing twitched.
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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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“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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This is the best kind of crime scene.
Spattered like gore from gunshots,
I'm left covered in trace evidence.
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You are fishing in a coffee cup. (Your fishing pole is a record player.)
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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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She...learned the ways of men, especially foreign men, who eyed her mother even as they passed around pictures of their children, wallet-bound photographs that included their reluctantly smiling wives.
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And here I am again.
I chew my nails. I tap my foot. I chew my nails. I sweat. I bleed. My nose bleeds. It drips. I drip. I'm dripping through my chair.
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All night the moon had watched him, and he’d been unable to return its stare. Finally there was sunlight, and Joško took up his rifle and rucksack. He had trouble keeping his balance at first, but gradually his legs steadied.
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You may gather from me
the spring of my youth
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I turn my head. Time starts running.
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Tuesdays she worked afternoons at the bookstore, and he’d secretly go, buy a large order, sit in a corner with a newspaper. Fries covered in vinegar, veins of ketchup.
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With such an attitude, it is remarkable that Jerome Quinth would be the one to make first contact with the beings from Lepton Six. As near as authorities could piece together from the charred remains, the historic event happened innocently enough on on
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if we stare into the dark long
enough, we see ourselves at some end or
beginning –
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