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Fear the Future: 25 Brief Tales in Various Keys of Woe, Fear, and Loathing

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The three were up early to await the deer with rifles, ammunition, and coffee.

Cattle Crossing

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"You wantin' one of them kittens? If we can't give 'em away we're gonna drown 'em. We got too many."

juvenile haiku

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leaves of a season/float into a brook among/bubbles fit to burst.

Thumbing For a Ride

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Here comes my speed dealer he's riding shotgun in the open

Feb 8

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Call it a spell or a prayer or a ritual; it worked.

Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous

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Liz spied the box of Kleenex right away. She sat down at the chair closest to the Kleenex.

Lover's Spat

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“You haven’t been listening, have you.”

The Next Landscape

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The day came shyly up to me like a rolling orange thing. Perhaps of alien origin, but not if the Buddha of our foolish hopeless dreamer inside has anything to say about it. It said, pick me up. I did. It looked like forever on the inviting horizon with trees as…

The oranges are dreaming

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The oranges are dreaming that they have turned to apples.

Parts

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Trigger warning: casualties of war.

Things You Should Know, By Heart, If You Must

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The light is always on in reality The Gelatinous Mass is not something made up By the Catholic Church And even though a small deer may have come to the side of the road once To lick the salt from your wounds There will definitely be cheap fish

Feb 5

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He peels the garlic while I stir the lentils; he chops the cilantro while I peel kale leaf from stem. Also, the rings. Also, no one is going anywhere.

A Good Man Is Hard To Find. But What About A Good Dog?

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I recently discovered that the man I'd loved and trusted for twenty years had a secret girlfriend on the side for the past decade. We've parted ways and I'm trying to go on with my life. At about the same time, my friend Judy lost her beloved elderly dog after…

Guinness for Iron

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My sister / craves raisons

A Monologue About Skyscrapers

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Everyday the buildings seem to be getting taller and taller.

Robin Eggs

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"The sheriff's mother-in-law made the smoothest 'shine in the county."

Feb 4

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Walking with one giant dog and one tiny one, I didn’t feel at home, but I felt something better.

Marcel Unchained

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Street mime in white face and white gloves, trapped in invisible box. Tip jar empty. Marcel's solo-dancing the tango now, teeth clenching ephemeral rose. Passersby pass him by.

Cats

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Steve lowers himself onto a lounge chair and lets out a long, overdue sigh. Cliff and Jim, the frickin’ and frackin’ of the built-in pool industry, are making a Burger Chef run while the cement sets.

Cremains

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I need a different storage solution

Feb 1

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On our wedding day he carried all of the furniture out of our small bedroom, created a sanctuary.

Texas Spleen

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Can we survive our Y chromosome?

A Quiz Show Audition

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However could anyone get Joyce scholarship mixed up with physical anthropology?

backwash

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today

Horace

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The young boy sat on the swing, hearing sirens in the distance. The tops of his shoes were dirty. His fingers as well, where he drew stick figures of people in the dirt. His…

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.7 - c.2

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Polo observed Madam Mayweather’s demeanor. The concern in her eyes for the students and faculty under attack by the Nocturne.

From This Distance

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Yes, I can imagine it now/ how we could each disappear completely/ connected only through memory's fault lines/

Blood on Her Hands

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Only blood I got on me was pulling him over onto my seat when I got out.

Breakfast

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Wake up, stretch. Check the curtained windows for sunlight or that dreaded grey frame that forces the covers to come back up and the alarm clock to be set to ‘Snooze’.

The Man Who Couldn't Move

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Without warning his eyes expertly navigated into a closed position setting off the dream machine long without power until this very second.