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I'll never be able to trust anyone again.
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So as the train thundered through a backdrop of palms, skewered yellowish
squid on grills and Wi-Fi leaking out into the jaws of the 76 provinces...
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An anorexic middle-aged woman walked up and watched me..
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When she left for the last time, everything fell apart. It wasn't new or unexpected — it had happened before but this time it was different. All those other times there had been…
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My parrot Poe freezes when a crow soars outside the window the same way I do when you approach my door. You come knocking late at night. What do you want this time? I yell. To come in you say, please. Go the fuck away, I respond but you keep…
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Since high school. It'd been that long. Donald had shared five classes with Julia—or was it six? If home-ec counted, then it was six. It was the same period, but they were never together because the classes were split with boys and girls—and were each voted Most…
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Jenny knew never to mistake sex for love. Jenny's mother, who couldn’t stand the way her latest lover looked at her daughter, gave Jenny to the Department of Human Services, where Jenny celebrated her twelfth birthday as a ward of the State of Arkansas. J
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Her head was free from restraint...
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How this feels is, I am just a task in God's daily planner. I'm wedged in between Ages of Reason, Bronze, Iron, Dark Ages, Rennaisance, Age of Aquarius, Electronic Age, Enlightenment, and other history-defining jargon.
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Can you dream with your eyes open like a rabbit?... You silly egg, don’t you know? Rabbits dream with one eye closed.
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When you collapse,
fall in my stupid direction
Or: if I say, you're the chosen one,
do something shiny
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I was born upside down, the umbilical cord looped twice around my neck. My mother claimed she was so busy working the swing shift at the hospital that she didn’t even know she was pregnant at first. But I found this hard to believe. Of course she knew. My
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a force field is not up
between us
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The appointed day came without much fanfare. The day was gloomy, but it would do. They climbed to the roof of the house to a small landing where Smiley placed the tiny piano stool smack dab in the middle. As soon as Ethan sat down Smiley rotated the chair
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