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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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Some believe the Scots were encouraged to emigrate, hired guns as it were, to Ireland to civilize that population.
If that's the case, we would see it as another evil English trick. In any case, we MacGowans are Scots Irish and Protestant.
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He was the kind of man that I would rather have declawed than date, and then leave him on a gurney, helpless and anaesthetized. Cliff Eames had made me feel that way since we were teenagers. He would never be helpless. …
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Years After she can go home.
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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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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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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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I hope you'll have the time to read this before your attention wanders.
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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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I need a different storage solution
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Borges must be so proud somewhere
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She was a beautiful woman. I don't argue with that. I welcome it.
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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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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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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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The everlasting shone through when skirting the tenuous threshold of the two worlds.
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He kind of enjoyed living by himself. It was nice and peaceful.
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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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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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as long as you have some snacks up there
I can be brave
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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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over tea & saltineshe read melike an obituary
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...and 55 words to tell you about it.
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I know now, how she moves without verbs
after you crushed her into the river.
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Somewhere along tomorrow, I will forget I have the right to do this.
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On the table the image is by Chardin but the puzzle is by someone else and that is what he has dumped out of the box.
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Did we get Jihadi John?/
And the highway to Mosul?//
What’s the score?
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her heart just nodded knowingly
....yes, dear
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I screwed my courage to the sticking point and asked him if he had shot down any Japanese airplanes. He grinned at me. “One,” he said.
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