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If I should wake/
before I die,/
just shoot me through/
the one good eye.
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Despite kryptonite not actually existing it became possible to buy, for 300 dollars, pieces of kryptonite on eBay. Personal protection, the sales pitch said. The pieces of kryptonite looked suspiciously like green plastic.
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1435 0 0
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When not enough is left to utterThe syllables it takes to say,Goodbye--Disassembled and developed,Laid upon the ground,Like the girded gridlockOn your smog befitted brow...Goodbye.And what if I said, hello?What if I said, good day?Would it change your sunken bodyAnd repair…
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But now she was no longer the little girl.
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1272 11 6
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Beyond a jade gate, a lotus pillar nods to / a braided fort.
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38 2 0
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Harry's hair had been in the process of falling out for years. He had tried every over-the-counter remedy and prescription available with no success. Over the years, his receding hairline had become a widow's peak, then male…
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...lotus roots carved with clunky holes like a mouse’s drawing of Swiss cheese.
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1939 0 0
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I ought to see, in Mr. Smith's dilated pupils, the projection of his last reverie.
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"Geez," I thought, "not only is this daredevil felon fellow my EXACT height and build — his co-conspiring gal-pal must be, too!" I exhaled what felt like a gallon’s worth of air though my nose. "This is just getting too fucking weird ..."
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exiled from hell where no torture could touch you to a cloud in heaven where no…
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The number is very large/
and perpetually changes//
as old stars fade, explode,/
or collapse into something not stars
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"Commander of the Armies of the Four Winds" concerns a nightmare endured by Commander Daniel Bennett of the San Diego Police Department after he is assigned to recover the stolen Necromancer Artifact, which purports to invoke nefarious spirits imprisoned
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INSTRUCTIONS: To all students, please address your index card: "To the Finder of this Balloon." Beneath that, write something that will encourage the finder to email you back. Then tape the index card to your balloon's string.Happy Ballooning! To the Finder…
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It's dawn. It's quiet on the pond in the Public Garden. The light is calm, the pollution is mild, and everything is still,except for the occasional cruising taxi. It's the beginning of spring-- tulips out, leaves…
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Once upon a time,
In a dark green forest,
A wise woman gave advice to all comers.
'Of course life is thus,' she said,
'If it wasn’t I’d know.'
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He did many things for love: Once he placed his tongue in his boyfriend’s nostril during sex, because he seemed to have read in the internet that this was a “thing” among the younger of their social class...
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1224 1 0
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And I'm usually soft-spoken.
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1624 3 0
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There's something wrong with my feet, if they are my feet at all.
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Beneath their feet bedrock stretched a hundred miles
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He said, “It was only after I broke my neck and even like maybe a year later that I really started realizing that I had something to say.”
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1081 3 0
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1415 3 1
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My first time alone with the women in Saudi Arabia...
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1700 6 1
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I do not know what zinzins is, what a zinzins is, who zinzins is.
I do not want to know
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My heart beat someone up the stairwell.
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1894 2 0
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...will it be as overwhelmingly dull and tedious as de Sade?
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33 2 0
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Time travel - the final frontier, accept no substitutesMongo was in flux, that nano second during molecular reintegration when it is essential to remain still, a weak spot in the Cro-Borg's can-do list. The human genome contains approximately three billion chemical base…
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1014 0 0
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I ran down a list of the few car-related words I knew: Battery? Gas tank? It was an admittedly short list.
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1689 3 1
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On the news they said that there was a baby born in a stable. There are rumours that he may be the son of God but initial reports are unconfirmed.
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The girl I sat next to said she had just looked up in time to see it, Randy, and it was quick thinking that you avoided it. Randy said he nearly missed it and commented on how Judy was the only one in the world who could discover plastic bubble paste, bab
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-There are a lot of guys would pay cash money to be in his position.
-Biteman, do you mean homeless and no ID, or married to Zoë Bontemps for three years?
-Both. Biteman gave a loud chortle.
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