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Yet there are still those people who form energetic interventions to save the powerless, the wretched ones who are patently alive, and by that measure…barely visible.
Our small saviors pay a large price...
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Never water down the bottle...
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Like all quiet, despotic, introverted individuals, Karl was severely and deeply misunderstood by pretty much everyone around him. He had experienced more in his forty two years of life than most people would have cared to even imagine. The events which he
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I let my mother do all the talking as the engagement ring/wedding band set spilled out of the ring box and into the jeweler's hand.
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This time was his time. No more sitting on the outer circle. No more “Taddy go for this” or “Taddy go for that.” No more “Taddy close the door” or “Taddy get the phone.” This time Taddy was the boss. It was his big deal.
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"Man, I'd love to do coke chopped up with the remains of this motherfucker," he said as the unicorn's head smacked against the screen of his netbook for the 12,364th time.
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The forest is ours, the sea belongs to the Brits and the Americans have heaven.
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He would be visible floating in the liquid nitrogen in the Plexiglas chamber, but the mechanisms for his maintenance would be silent. The building's electricity supplied power, but in the event of a power loss, an emergency generator would take over.
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Even in those days, the caretakers avoided it, said the air was bad, but not Blanche. She loved it.
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Elida had the perfect response prepared for this moment, replayed it in her mind so often that she thought it would come automatically; but now that it's here, she's at a loss. Roseanne's skin is cold, rough, and as the sting from the blow works its way
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Pop wanted a boy, so when the doctor congratulated him for being the father of a seven-pound, six-ounce girl, he left for Smiley’s Pub and got drunk with his best friend, Borchervink, who bought him a bulldog as consolation.
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They looked like girl’s jeans. Matt held them against himself in the mirror. Not that girl’s jeans were a mark against them. Usually, girls had better jeans anyway. Matt took two of the biggest pairs out of the big chest in his grandmother’s back closet.
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I recounted missed appointments, work shifts and cat feedings along with a series of forgotten door codes, keys, vitamins, and days in which I had forgotten to apply deodorant or moisturizer. Dr. Randall listened patiently as I went down my list. When I was finished, he…
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The courtroom smelled a lot like mold and it was hot as you could imagine. I sweated through my shirt and wondered if he wasn’t dying under his robe. He looked down at me from his bench and I just knew he was going to call me a commie and sentence me to l
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