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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.
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167010
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It's possible I was having an acid flashback or some kind of semi-conscious when I opened the door of #3.
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in time there is nothing more important for meto write than this line. It isn't defined in the way you'd like perhaps, but it doesn't matter because it will be true, and you will be true, and I will be the message you get. Some signal has…
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The three of us traveled seven hours that day and Al traveled as far in the service of finding the right tool for his writing.
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167000
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Tombstones are only granite symbols of a man’s life, Gus thought as he changed lanes. Children, they were the ultimate epitaph.
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16702013
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I sprinkle seaweed over the water and all twelve rise to feed. Two of them went down the hole but knew to come up. A toilet has mouths and caverns, not a bad place at all for fish.
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166911
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“I’m surprised you haven’t fucked yourself to death, too,” he added, “given your record.”
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1669177
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You have transformed me into an aimless, sleepless wraith...
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166900
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Alysia gritted her teeth, lifted her legs up, and stood straight. She took Reya’s arms with a gentle touch and unlatched them assuring that she was okay. She stood before Oryn with her wings stretched out gathering a wave of heat.
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166986
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I was good-looking, marketable and ambitious. And that never hurt anyone cracking it big ...
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166932
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Out here in nearly nowhere I met this man. About him I know something something, and no one can tell me otherwise.
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1669127
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I am a romantic writer, true. But what comes after the romance is what fascinates me. A lover dying is the most beautiful scene I want to write. The most beautiful scene I have yet to write.
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166843
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…Professor Wumbat begins.
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1668167
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it's the very words that are the problem
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He had the cannonball head of Hemingway, the stump neck, sloping shoulders and barrel chest.
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166895
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I envisioned bound feet of ancient Asian women who wore embroidered slippers that hid grotesque disfigurements.
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1667910
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I knew I needed to visit a beach / made entirely of sharks’ teeth
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166755
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Called in sick at work for a week straight when I first met Tony.
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It came up heads so he is going first. He puts on a condom and gets in
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"... I knew Willie had gone— out the back door or out the side window. I knew he probably slipped over the fence behind my house into Lou C.’s backyard..."
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Let’s talk about Chattanooga, the cloud / mountains, the monastery bench, drunk / at sunset
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166653
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Somehow I always had to sit behind him. I remember because he had a constellation of skin tags on his neck. I thought about drawing stars on him; I thought about creating a new galaxy I would rule. I should have been learning math instead. I still can’t
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. . . she didn’t bow her head.
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166642
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I want to break that mug. (Break him.)
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166634
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My tongue is clicking.
I want to act out.
I want an unprofessional bargain.
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166684
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I want crazy at my funeral. I want clowns, a petting zoo, fireworks, craps tables, male and female strippers, and a three-person band composed of old men wearing striped vests, black pants, and straw hats: one plays a banjo, another on tuba, and…
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Walk alone at night, quietly. Pause for eye contact with raccoons and night cats, your drunk self, and lights in the graveyard. Don't apologize for it in the morning. Instead of the shame you feel for one time acting selfishly and chasing a future, say…
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There was a time when she could quell the loathing that Fred inspired in her. She could force it down. Back then, for instance, when they’d been in counseling, the ball of hatred had only been a little, overripe orange - squishy and occasionally mushed
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