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Non-Stop Service

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Please direct your attention to the flight attendants as they demonstrate the safety features of this aircraft.

You Wear Camo?

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Got me a 50 pound bat ray.

The Invisible Corpse Candle

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Her eyes stared wide with panic, her teeth chattered intermittently with impressive intensity, and with her ineffectual stabs at the air she completed the portrait of distracted mania.

Suzanne

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And I watched, from her warm bed, the curtains dancing in the window

Bad Attitude

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Start with a long look down the alley, a small hoodied figure turning in.

Zig Zag

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Jerry tries to be funny saying, I think Charlie Brown should kick Lucy in the head when she pulls the ball away; either that or they start making out. Ewww, but they're both eight years old, Sandra says biting her lip, tying off her smile. Jerry won't focus on her…

~true myth zoo spa~

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flash read. have fun *cheers*

How I Spent My Summer Vacation... When I Wasn't Drinking

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This is what my summer has come to: me, out of a job, aimlessly driving around the city looking for places to write, places to read, places to occupy my time.

moving forward

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see this:/ ink-stained paper/ littering miles

Gabrielle in Arrears

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You should be calling 911

~elephant ink~

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one numberless character, an army of rants marching one by one, sand by sand, we move mountains this way…

CONFUSION

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She asks if I would like to join them.

one dozen haiku

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strumming on the pipe/blowing on the lute's body/drumming on the horn.

And her child

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The mother was happy, though. She was happy because she could make him some soup and then she could feed it to him in bed.

Rainbow

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“What I really want to know is, why is a straight guy called Caspar opening a lesbian leather bar in Berlin anyway?” Shona asked. “Schöneberg must really be going to the dogs.”

Clouds to the Makers

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You'll be gone. I'll be gone. I'd hate to think how it was all for nothing, that all we did was stumble into a pretty big hole of our own making. The best place for a broken heart after all is in your own sweet chest. No one else…

Surprise

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a shy girl

Lucky Strike

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I like the smoke going in but I like it even more when it's coming out

... and I liked it!

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... red lipstick shiny in the bar's light, raven-colored hair spiky and toussled. Jen opened her mouth to say something, stickiness of her cherry Chapstick separating with her lips ... and the girl leaned in and started kissing her.

Memory Box

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Soft voices in private, in the street, city noise violence disappears she blinks her eyelids and I can hear the lashes intertwine and pull clear.

Neighbors

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“Hear that?” asks my wife Amy. Books in hand, we relax on our flagstone patio. A shaft of late-day sun borrows through the maples' leafy canopy and deposits a dazzling, sunlit pool on Amy's lap. …

Actor-Activist

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A dark-haired, handsome man adjusted the headset he was wearing, leaned toward a microphone, and eyed his host, a curly-haired man with a toothy grin, who sat up straight as he received a cue from his producer.

An Earnest Prayer

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It’s like faith. My battle buddy is out there, I know it, but I can’t see him, nor can I hear him. I just know he’s there, trusting he’ll do what he’s supposed to do, and he’s trusting in me.

The Undertaker's Son

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You would never see me the same again. You'd always be peaking at me from behind your mother's apron.

What the Father Said

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At night, instead of sleep, there were new and secret pleasures. Half-awake lessons in dexterity, in the limber material of human life.

Obituary

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Patrick Savage, who has died aged 29, was a poker player fast on his way to becoming a cult figure in the music scene.

Clean

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I am standing in my neighbor’s back yard in my underwear, and my trash can is clean.

Top Ten Reasons Why I Stipple

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Chicks dig dots.

Don't Wash, Don't Tell

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Butch the Labradoodle sets some necessary boundaries.

Only losers reminisce about their show & tell days

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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