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If you are a fox then I am also a fox.
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1323 13 7
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I ran into Tanya at “Pearl's” — maybe it was still called “Big Balls” — over in the Stockyards (Ft. Worth) in '72 and right up front we both admitted to loving honky-tonks and “done me wrong” songs which is why we were there…
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One of his operas was confiscated when he couldn’t pay a hotel bill. He ended up in a mental home, demented from syphilis.
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889 2 2
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As being ebbs it deepens. The mind grows truant. We inhabit a permanent Saturday.
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Love me like a crutch
Love me when I'm strong
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It's only been about three minutes. We're moving a bit faster now and many of those around me have already been taken out by the debris. One guy had his head smashed in by a rogue swing set that came out of nowhere. I envy his demise, at least a little…
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It wasn't meant to happen like this— the shutter, the feeling of breathlessness when he touched her shoulder, even after he had pointed out all of the things she had done incorrectly throughout the day. They had been married for five years in February, and as…
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Whatever you have,/
we can monetize it
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Me: In my orange hazmat, the one that makes my eyes look intensely blue.Him: His flexi-human-hamster ball. Fun, but a bit informal for a first date, I think.We're outside because doorways are not easy for him. After some impromptu rounds of bumper balls on the square, he…
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Somebody pushed the automatic fuck-you button today,
not the due-to-the-volume-of-submissions-we-receive button,
nor the it-does-not-fit-our-editorial-needs button;
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She'd still rest her fingers on your back, and her smile still lit the lantern of your soul.
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She grinned when he steadied himself against the sofa. “Boy, I know you.”
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The boy is a man is a guy is a smoked snack stick is a guide to picking up chicks at online dating sites is an Axe body wash commercial is a robot cartoon is a cautionary tale is a a zombie tv series reject is a country reduced to a whining drooling dog m
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I've got an appointment to see my shrink next Wednesday. She's pretty sharp. Not bad looking, either.
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I now felt prepared to waltz under a K bullet that hits a stucco brick above the tropical hibiscus.
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I was having festive sex flashbacks and wasn't thinking sharply.
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883 5 1
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no rule says an imaginary friend has to be a good one
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974 12 8
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His eyes are closed yet restless, as if too many thoughts loop beneath the lids.
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906 2 1
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Love is easy. Lazy. Fickle.
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Incidents intensified. The Dead appeared in twos and threes at shopping mall and Wal-Mart parking lots.
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He kept one scarf. It was the scarf that she would tie around his eyes to play with him, long, until he was in his teens. A silly game that made her happy and he squirmed with delight until he got too old. She did not want him to see her, only to know if
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They are all sleeping, but I know better. I will keep watch and if he comes tonight I will be alert and ready. When he arrives he'll see the slack mouths, the graceless sprawls, hear the grunts, snorts and snores of the other women and then he'll sense me. My eyes will…
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No one explained triumph
would feel like this.
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To him the younger women, contemporaries of the bride, all sounded as if they were breathing helium.
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