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Jack Krackenthorpe, Director-General of MI-5, sat alone drinking tea in Lee Ho Fook, a third-rate Chinese restaurant in Soho a mile from his Curzon Street office.
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Mon wakes up surrounded by trees. The light is grey, the trunks black.How long have I slept? he wonders.He doesn't know which way to walk. In every direction, the same prospect of trees. He looks up at a blank sky. No sign even of the sun.***He starts walking. Slowly,…
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So it's me and two other girls...
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"So, how did you know my name?"
"I read memories." i said
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. . . a visitor from the preceding century would have been aghast to the point of vomiting to behold the regard with which pandas were now held almost universally.
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Fat, religious, full of himself,
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What I did I wouldn't call criminal, just stupid. Even my judge, after so many court appointments, didn't understand what had happened. And there's a reason I got out on illegal sentencing but, either way, I paid the better part of a year for it all. I don't want to tell…
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So many traps for catching female poets have been invented that it is a rare editor who ever really sees one.
H.L. Mencken
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It turned out Eel’s brain corrects for imbalance, and he can only feel danger for a moment or two.
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As a child I drowned myself in the pages of books, and as a writer I prefer to be left alone with my imagination.
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When the world is quiet, all your thoughts demand attention.
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Once upon a mind-flight
Leary with the tripping became weary
Of the psychedelic travel
Felt the universe unravel
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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.
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stoned,/ i made the mistake/ of walking to the store across the busy street/ to find myself in the middle/ of the pep-up/ for a basketball game/ or something like that.
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This soil is bereft, with only mocking water
below, so catacombed in chalk.
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I didn’t say to eat your keys and parrots.
It was peas and carrots. Idiot!
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The first intimation that something was afoul was when his computer crashed.
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I could still feel you like horseradish / in the hairs in the back / of my nose
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That Orndoff! I'd like to shove that pipe of his up his arse.
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I have bathed in patchouli oil and my heavy hair is lustrous from brushing. I am wearing my gold ankle bracelets with the ruby charms that my love gave me when we had been married one year. My robe is fuchsia silk and under it I wear black satin…
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Our revolutionaries
Have evolved into gamekeepers
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There was this old guy named Ned. He swept floors. No one knew much about him. He'd been around for years sweeping the concrete floors of the hangar-sized buildings that housed the major mechanical service departments at an old amusement park.
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“Hey! You can’t be
whistling on Greyhound,”
the bus driver said,
looking up
in the rearview mirror.
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It was cold in the church. The Lutherans were freezing to death. The Catholics brought their winter coats.
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For my father, my best buddy.
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“Have you ever thought what stars are made of?”
“No,” he said.
The man nodded seriously. “I hadn’t either. Not until I met the Star Catcher. He told me all the stars in the universe are actually coins. Coins! Big coins. Small coins. Different colors
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The Bird King suffers from phantom head syndrome. Ever since his decapitation by a critic, he has felt pain where his head used to be. Sometimes it wakes him in the night. It's so excruciating, he fumbles for a saw. But alas! there's nothing to chop off.He's seen every…
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