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apparently, at about 2:30 or whenever the spirit moves him, my boss stands at the door to his office and shouts: “Fifty bucks for the next sale!”
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We ate takeout Chinese. Two days before, we learned the feds were coming. Two months into this job, it was time to call my parents, say, I’m jobless again.
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Last week, Zitana gave me six losing numbers. For the Mega Millions, she said, untold riches await you! I followed her advice. Not one number came up.
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The last time I jumped off a building I bounced. Sixteen stories. People ask, why. I say, I knew I’d bounce.
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While my rival was irresistible, I found her tax plan disgusting and her morality views puritanical. I couldn’t resist, though, her fascist primness.
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“Phennias Jessup is his name. That’s his death’s head scroll, an hourglass, bats, spirals and angel’s wings on either side of the top part of the stone. "
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The last postcard, kept in a secret place in the postal system, ready to be sent to the person who breaks the system. It’s your fault, the postmaster general will write, it’s you that’s ruined everything.
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I want to invite her into my apartment for coffee and hearty soup. But I’m afraid of this guy, his voice, his muscles, his tattoos, his t-shirts like blood-spattered inkblots.
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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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Our local low rent ice-based superhero said he’d had enough and would check back in early spring.
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