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I talk wands and magic and how women aren't supposed to care,
but I do, and she talks length and girth.
Her fiancé has neither,
she makes an illustration with her pinky
and says that if they don't marry within the year,
she's dumping his ass
and we
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There's a mirror in front of me and I thought it was so I could see myself, but I didn't want to see me.
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When they called him down there to the morgue to identify the body, he drove behind the wheel of his truck like some steady maniac on a long haul. The Ford 150 cried out for new shocks, but that hardly mattered. Mud plastered side panels and…
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Years After she can go home.
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Night fell and the photographer slept, one hand between Prue's legs.
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Why is the ghost of John Lennon haunting a house in rural Oregon?
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The two were huddled in a corner of an alley, joined by some others that I’m sure wandered into the darkness when they realized they were far from alone. That alley was the one off Market Street. I used to steal candy from the corner shop when I was nin
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I remember the tan guinea pig, dead of dehydration. Through the wire bars of her cage I viewed her body. She lay stiff on her side, stretched out, as if in her guinea-pig dream she had been running through grassland, open and close to the sky.
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Borges must be so proud somewhere
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It was only when blood began to drip onto the page that he realized he'd been hit.
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My dad drove a Model A Roadster
and had a photo taken of him on a hunting trip up in Wisconsin
with one leather boot up on the running board
and a .22 caliber pistol in his hand
like Ernest Hemingway and Clark Gable rolled into one
My dad ro
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I need a different storage solution
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I found my black dot nucleus. School got me in the 10th year with the numbers spilling outta my head, but now I got the cell on my mind. Everybody's floating around this joint all pink and green college clean, yellow face Japanese, or the jet-headed Greeks with their…
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Erwin came into the kitchen through the back door and went straight to the sink to clean up. Black mud and dried blood crusted his fingertips and caked the callused whorls of his knuckles. He used the round of strong-smelling soap he kept for…
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He kind of enjoyed living by himself. It was nice and peaceful.
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as long as you have some snacks up there
I can be brave
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She was a beautiful woman. I don't argue with that. I welcome it.
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over tea & saltineshe read melike an obituary
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...and 55 words to tell you about it.
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Most nights while in his sleep, with his one good eye deeply shut, the old man can hear the whispers of the specter in the remote wanderings, holding the surrounding woodlands in its snare. The sound of it closing in, with the bones of the universe crushing in…
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her heart just nodded knowingly
....yes, dear
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Somewhere along tomorrow, I will forget I have the right to do this.
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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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Jimmy Gollihue awoke to the howling of a bloodhound, a long voice from up the mountain, and the baying of the dog pulled a keening lament from his dream of the highway.
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I watched as the light fled
from your eyes,
No slowly dimming lamp,
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The everlasting shone through when skirting the tenuous threshold of the two worlds.
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“They picked me up in their spaceship about noon,” Austin Grantham says to me while pulling up an apple crate to use as a stool.
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Did we get Jihadi John?/
And the highway to Mosul?//
What’s the score?
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Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.
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