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Her hair’s the color of LA at night On such occasions when the Santa Anas Have left the hills bone-dry and burning bright

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The warmth flowed around her, and her heart beat at a calming pace. She felt as though the heat bathed her like water and felt her body cleansing within it.

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Synthetic Terror

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He searched for something deserving of the word “bestowed,” something so rare as to horrify the clerics of ordinariness.

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White, hot pain shot runs from her through the wires, ending at the laptop, leaving a background buzz in her head.

The Night Bird

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Ode to Tomorrow

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Dylan to Return to Roots for Golden Years

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When informed that the returning celebrity is not Gary Puckett but Bob Dylan, the world-renowned singer-songwriter, Sklarski draws a blank. “Never heard of him,” he says as he takes off in his pick-up truck.

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The Preservation of Innocence (through Times of Hunger and Doubt)

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The Paranoia Experiment

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I know this is going to sound crazy, possibly because it is crazy, but still, please hear me out. I'm a relatively sane person. Sane as any of you, or I was. Just, what I'm saying is that anything that happened to me could happen to you, and you might do the same things I…

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High Definitions

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"What the hell does profligate mean?!" He shouted.

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at the front of the bus/ sways a white-veiled woman:/ gnarled hands upon/ a bag of palms,

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Albert Einstein was probably the genius of our age. Joe Biden is a close second, yet Einstein not only had better hair but a keener knack to think of things that no one else could, or would, or would ever want to, since if they did, their brain would shockingly combust in a…

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