1271 3 0
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after several beers this woman told me once/(when I was maybe 15)
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I felt the most afraid I’ve ever felt in my life, like all the unknowns in the universe were rushing through me at once.
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. . . making a little winter-love, in a dark corner.
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1509 14 8
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You always complained that Christmas/
ruined your birthday/
sister.
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The sometimes shiver that arrives from awkward silences and the more often cold that comes from midwestern winters.
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1810 12 5
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“How much is stuff worth? Stuff man! Bling! Cargo! STUFF! What's it worth to you? It ain't worth a shit, man! Clean clothes! Comfortable shoes! A ride! Those things are important! But they’re only stuff.
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He nuzzled the breasts with his face for a moment, his leathery skin and tangles of hair tickling her in the process.
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976 2 0
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How we segued from exploring the wind to eating a nitwit sandwich.
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1140 0 0
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". . . Stinkin' vampires, death to all of ’em, them and their plague-festerin' rats. But the new ones, I don’t mind takin’ ’em down before gettin’ rid of ’em. —But you’ll never get that smell off o’ you if you use only one condom, I’m here to tell you . .
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1867 21 12
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I couldn’t begin to give an account of the latest days.
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Enumerate the small delights/ this bright first morning
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1941 5 6
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We get prepped for the big finale, and we don't want the guy who turns up with the scythe to be Jo-Jo the dog-faced boy.
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1439 12 3
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1220 1 1
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I never could run properly. It’s kinda hard when you’ve got scales all over your body and a big fat tail that gets in the way.
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Emi however, took her sister’s arm and looked at the bandage. Her normal green eyes stared coldly at the wound made by one of the large centipedes. Mayumi realized there was some sense of emotion from Emi wanting to come out.
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1306 0 0
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1504 4 2
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About halfway through reading some book that was supposed to be some really deep shit, I decided to write my own book instead.
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958 2 1
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She was outside the house with one of her unlit cigarettes dangling from those chapped lips, she was carrying the can of kerosene and wearing a pair of red Mary Jane shoes, even her footwear smacked of violent drawing mystery.
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1477 7 5
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At the Bizarre Bazaar in the village of There You Are we waited on the platform when the Midnight Special steamed into the station pulling a plain brown wrapper disguised as an invisible train
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1962 0 0
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Babylon Tower is AWESOME! The captain of the ship announced our arrival in time for everyone to view it on the screens. First Class got to view it from the viewing room, and they disembarked first. Steerage got off last. What we saw upon arrival was w
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Quail looked up at her. Unsmiling, challenging.
Lemme just go wash my hands, he said.
She closed the door, bolted it. You won’t need your hands.
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1340 0 1
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Be it a moment of zen, an epiphany, a vision, or even an ill-tempered chinese food inflicted dream, I've seen what's been shrouded carefully behind you… ahead of me.
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1608 2 1
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Mary ran her cake business in a way she could never have run her marriage. It was by appointment only, full deposit, partial refund (and this purely at her own discretion). Business was terrific and she had to turn down job after job. She only made…
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Life was small. It was tiny even, so tiny it was hard to see it sometimes. Life curled up to make itself even smaller, to fit into the kinds of holes that insects crawl into to get away from bigger insects. Life was sad. Life didn't want to be an insect.
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896 3 0
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There was no logic to the thing;
he’d left to drive his girl around.
She had lived and he had died.
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1374 4 3
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Tony sat down in the hotel room with his back against the wall. He had a handsome face, with three-day stubble growing from it, his pupils very large as if frightened by something, or from deep thought. In his hand, was the winning lottery, Periodically he would get up…
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804 4 3
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Al:In the contest for the Worst Century Ever, the Twenty-first could be a real contender. Chris:The Twentieth looks unbeatable, sure, what with the War to End All Wars, the Great Depression, Hitler, Spain, the Second World War…Al:…Stalin, and Enola Gay. The genocides alone…
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1525 1 2
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That sound. Bone against bone. Skin across skin. Blood fraying into the unknown dark. He loved that sound.
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1681 9 10
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I knew I needed to visit a beach / made entirely of sharks’ teeth
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