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I woke up when the smoke alarm insisted. Either the curtains were on fire or I hadn't changed the battery.
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I find driftwood, long, smooth logs washed up on the beach, drag them to dunes still wet from the sea...
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He beats the girl, stabs her 22 times, rapes her, then uses his fingertips to push her orbital sockets into the back of her head before killing her. At trial, he laughs about whether or not there…
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Testing how well he navigates
She didn't think he would find it
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If anyone should wonder whether a purveyor of weekly ghost tales on television ("A World Beyond", which I host, was rated number six in fall of '55), might come to feel undone by a case of extradimensional foulness, they shall herein find their answer.
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I spot another fat lady in another part of the store, and I slap her butt, too. She tells me I'm a bad boy.
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A stroll along the golf course rim reveals Polo-logoed litter. Could this be what they mean by white trash?
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strung from her window to a tree
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"Holy shit. Holy shit holy shit holy shit..."
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He was pretty much packed, one large suitcase full, two crates of albums, one duffel bag. He had to leave room for the three riders he would pick up on his way, one in St. Louis, two in Columbia.
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The story itself is not much longer than a snippet. What is a snippet anyway?
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...I grew up in a provincial town which at the time had no bookstore and no library — no library even at school...
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Ai noticed the red bead at the base of Tori’s neck embedded within the feather. It had the look of a ruby. She slid her hand over the bead and a tingling sensation climbed up her arm.
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I’ve been such a fool, so reckless and untrue.
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Hollywood is the land of the slow no.
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You're thinking I don't have a conscience, right? I'm asking you.
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I thought drowning you was the answer. I had barely opened my eyes as I leaned over the sink to brush my teeth, and you were poised near the drain, a furry brown spider, and the largest one I had ever seen up close. I was afraid to smash you, so I flooded you with…
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Come home, my love, and live.
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1) Tragicomedy set to drama is what the American public fears and abhors. But it's reality, and reality can be subject to the rifling burden of…
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In the diffuse light of early morning you wear a sweat suit maybe and stand in front of a model-kitchen counter in a model-home kitchen
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that doesn't need any words to arrive fully formed, or too many words to be believed in at all I should say, a little something we can simply send back and forth across your time and my space without having to talk at length about it, but being a …
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Th heeet frum mye skin on ers wus mehsidge eenuff.
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The river waited for her patiently.
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President Kennedy’s national physical fitness program tried to reverse the incoming tide of obesity, but for many it was too late.
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So I've got this head in a jar and I'm not sure who it belongs to.
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Five evangelists in bathing suits
baptize a man
while green chilies
roast on a Ferris wheel rotisserie
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I'm not sure if he's right or not but he has a gorgeous smile, he's charmingly self confident, and he's very persuasive.
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The day I met Griffin Burns was the worst day of my adult life. However, it wasn't a series of unfortunate events, one mistake which followed an unlucky break which followed a bad situation; nothing …
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In his head the moment would have been different.
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